• DOI:10.1561/100.00015051
Corpus ID: 157341715

Do Parties Matter for Ethnic Violence? Evidence From India

@article{Nellis2016DoPM,
  title={Do Parties Matter for Ethnic Violence? Evidence From India},
  author={G. Nellis and Michael Weaver and S. Rosenzweig},
  journal={Quarterly Journal of Political Science},
  year={2016},
  volume={11},
  pages={249-277}
}

• G. Nellis, Michael Weaver, S. Rosenzweig
• Published 2016
• Political Science
• Quarterly Journal of Political Science

Ethnic group conflict is among the most serious threats facing young democracies. In this paper, we investigate whether the partisanship of incumbent politicians affects the incidence and severity of local ethnic violence. Using a novel application of the regression-discontinuity design, we show that as-if random victory by candidates representing India's Congress party in close state assembly elections between 1962 and 2000 reduced Hindu–Muslim rioting. The effects are large. Simulations… Expand

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