Law, criminology & political science : Political science, public administration & international relations
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/38539
Understanding Electoral Violence through Complex Textual Data: OSCE Monitoring Missions in Different Contexts
English
Mochtak, Michal[University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Identités, Politiques, Sociétés, Espaces (IPSE) >]
[en] The paper analyses more than 20 years of evidence on electoral violence as reported by OSCE monitoring mission reports. It identifies prevailing trends of electoral violence in the OSCE participating states in order to better understand how the phenomenon is understood and framed by leading international monitoring organizations in the region. The analysis utilizes a unique approach based on automated content analysis employing counting algorithms and latent semantic indexing. The results of the analysis show how electoral violence differs throughout the region while highlighting the qualitative variations in regional patterns of the reported incidents of election-related violence.
ERC Research Grant
Electoral Legacies of War: Political Competition in Postwar Southeast Europe
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