The Politics of Mass Killing in Autocratic Regimes

Mukherjee, Bumba; Koren, Ore

This book develops a detailed, disaggregated theoretical and empirical framework that explains variations in mass killing by authoritarian regimes globally, with a specific focus on Pakistan, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Using a combination of game-theoretic, statistical, and qualitative approaches, this project explicates when civilians within nondemocratic states will mobilize against the ruling elite, and when such mobilization will result in mass killing. In doing so, it illustrates the important role urbanization and food insecurity historically played, and will continue to play, in generating extreme forms of civilian victimization.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2018-07-06

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783319917573

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-91758-0

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 303