Violence Elites and Resilience in States Under Stress

Project Information

VERSUS

Grant agreement ID: 726504

DOI

10.3030/726504

Project closed

EC signature date 27 June 2017

Start date 1 September 2017

End date 31 May 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 999 390,00

EU contribution

€ 1 999 390,00

Coordinated by

THE UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (23)

Chief or Big-Man Politics in Post-War Sierra Leone?

Author(s): Kars de Bruijne
Published in: African Studies Review, Issue 66, 2024, Page(s) 922-948, ISSN 0002-0206
Publisher: African Studies Association
DOI: 10.1017/asr.2023.9

Personal Power in Africa: Legislative Networks and Executive Appointments in Ghana, Togo and Gabon

Author(s): Anja Osei, Daniel Wigmore-Shepherd
Published in: Government and Opposition, Issue 59, 2023, Page(s) 272-296, ISSN 0017-257X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1017/gov.2022.42

Elite Coalitions and Power Balance across African Regimes: Introducing the African Cabinet and Political Elite Data Project (ACPED)

Author(s): Clionadh Raleigh, Daniel Wigmore-Shepherd
Published in: Ethnopolitics, 2019, Page(s) 1-26, ISSN 1744-9057
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/17449057.2020.1771840

An agenda for addressing bias in conflict data

Author(s): Erin Miller, Roudabeh Kishi, Clionadh Raleigh, Caitriona Dowd
Published in: Scientific Data, Issue 9, 2022, ISSN 2052-4463
Publisher: Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41597-022-01705-8

Social network analysis from the perspective of African political philosophy

Author(s): Dominic Burbidge
Published in: Review of Social Economy, 2024, ISSN 0034-6764
Publisher: Routledge

Regime cycles and political change in African autocracies

Author(s): Andrea Carboni, Clionadh Raleigh
Published in: The Journal of Modern African Studies, Issue 59, 2023, Page(s) 415-437, ISSN 0022-278X
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0022278x21000240

Altered political alignments in Kenya’s decentralised constitutional order

Author(s): Dominic Burbidge
Published in: Journal of Eastern African Studies, 2024, ISSN 1753-1055
Publisher: Routledge

For things to remain the same, how many things have to change? Elite continuity and change after leadership changes

Author(s): Tiziana Corda
Published in: Democratization, Issue 30, 2023, Page(s) 1435-1454, ISSN 1351-0347
Publisher: Frank Cass Publishers
DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2023.2189699

Rethinking Inter-Communal Violence in Africa

Author(s): Daniel Christopher Watson
Published in: Civil Wars, 2023, Page(s) 1-30, ISSN 1369-8249
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2023.2180924

Houthis in the Making: Nostalgia, Populism, and the Politicization of Hashemite Descent

Author(s): Luca Nevola
Published in: Arabian Humanities, Issue 13, 2024, ISSN 2308-6122
Publisher: Sanaa: CEFAS
DOI: 10.4000/cy.5917

New Territory, Geographic Diffusion and Civilian Targeting

Author(s): Caitriona Dowd
Published in: Civil Wars, 2024, Page(s) 1-32, ISSN 1369-8249
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2024.2302735

Rebooting the system. Regime cycles, elites, and succession in African states

Author(s): Carboni, Andrea; Raleigh, Clionadh
Published in: Journal of Modern African Studies, 2020, ISSN 0022-278X
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Ethno-Federalism and Subnational Conflicts in Ethiopia

Author(s): Zemelek Ayele, Braden Fuller, Clionadh Raleigh
Published in: Civil Wars, 2023, Page(s) 1-28, ISSN 1369-8249
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2023.2214500

The Sahel crisis since 2012

Author(s): Clionadh Raleigh, Héni Nsaibia, Caitriona Dowd
Published in: African Affairs, 2020, Page(s) 1-12, ISSN 0001-9909
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adaa022

The geography of regime support and political violence

Author(s): Hyun Jin Choi, Clionadh Raleigh
Published in: Democratization, Issue 28, 2022, Page(s) 1095-1114, ISSN 1351-0347
Publisher: Frank Cass Publishers
DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2021.1901688

Voting and Violence in Competitive Autocracies: The Case of the 2008 Runoff Election in Zimbabwe

Author(s): Helen Morris, Clionadh Raleigh
Published in: Civil Wars, 2024, Page(s) 1-28, ISSN 1369-8249
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2024.2347146

Comparing ‘New’ and ‘Old’ Media for Violence Monitoring and Crisis Response: Evidence from Kenya

Author(s): Caitriona Dowd
Published in: Research & Politics, Issue 7-3, 2020, ISSN 2053-1680
Publisher: Sage Journals

The Power of Appointment: Political Appointments, Electoral Competition and Electoral Violence in Côte d’Ivoire

Author(s): Kars de Bruijne
Published in: Civil Wars, 2024, Page(s) 1-31, ISSN 1369-8249
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/13698249.2024.2318193

Subnational authority and political alignment in African states

Author(s): Clionadh Raleigh, Andrea Carboni
Published in: Democratization, Issue 31, 2024, Page(s) 1125-1139, ISSN 1351-0347
Publisher: Frank Cass Publishers
DOI: 10.1080/13510347.2023.2201495

Inclusive conflict? Competitive clientelism and the rise of political violence

Author(s): Clionadh Raleigh, Hyun Jin Choi, Daniel Wigmore-Shepherd
Published in: Review of International Studies, Issue 48, 2022, Page(s) 44-66, ISSN 0260-2105
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0260210521000218

Non-party ministers and technocrats in post-revolutionary Tunisia

Author(s): Andrea Carboni
Published in: The Journal of North African Studies, Issue 28, 2023, Page(s) 151-178, ISSN 1362-9387
Publisher: Frank Cass Publishers
DOI: 10.1080/13629387.2022.2034502

Transition to subnational democracy: Kenya’s 2017 presidential and gubernatorial elections

Author(s): Dominic Burbidge
Published in: Regional & Federal Studies, Issue 30, 2022, Page(s) 387-414, ISSN 1359-7566
Publisher: Frank Cass Publishers
DOI: 10.1080/13597566.2020.1761340

Political instability patterns are obscured by conflict dataset scope conditions, sources, and coding choices

Author(s): Clionadh Raleigh, Roudabeh Kishi, Andrew Linke
Published in: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Issue 10, 2023, ISSN 2662-9992
Publisher: Nature
DOI: 10.1057/s41599-023-01559-4

Book chapters (10)

Pro-Regime Militias

Author(s): Clionadh Raleigh and Roudabeh Kishi
Published in: 2023, Page(s) 26, ISBN 9781003223917
Publisher: Routledge

Collecting Conflict Data Worldwide: ACLED’s Contribution

Author(s): Andrea Carboni, Clionadh Raleigh
Published in: Security Science and Technology, Open Source Investigations in the Age of Google, 2024, Page(s) 171-187
Publisher: World Scientic Publishing Europe Ltd.
DOI: 10.1142/9781800614079_0009

The Perspective of “Coup Forces,” Saleh and Houthi Elements

Author(s): Nevola, Luca Shiban, Baraa
Published in: Global, Regional, and Local Dynamics in the Yemen Crisis, 2020
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Conflict Event Data

Author(s): Clionadh Raleigh and Roudabeh Kishi
Published in: Routledge Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis Methods, 2022, Page(s) 15, ISBN 9781003139850
Publisher: Routledge

The Role of “Coup Forces,” Saleh, and the Houthis

Author(s): Luca Nevola, Baraa Shiban
Published in: Global, Regional, and Local Dynamics in the Yemen Crisis, 2022, Page(s) 233-251, ISBN 978-3-030-35578-4
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-35578-4_15

Violence and Politics in Zimbabwe from 2008-2018

Author(s): Clionadh Raleigh
Published in: The Oxford Handbook of Zimbabwean Politics, 2020
Publisher: OUP

Trust as the Basis to Social Inquiry

Author(s): Dominic Burbidge
Published in: Virtues and Economics, Homo Curator: Towards the Ethics of Consumption, 2024, Page(s) 145-158, ISBN 978-3-031-51700-6
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-51700-6_10

Violence and Internal Ruling Party Politics in Zimbabwe (2008–2018)

Author(s): Clionadh Raleigh
Published in: The Oxford Handbook of Zimbabwean Politics, 2024
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198805472.013.20

Central: Self-sufficiency through local government

Author(s): Dominic Burbidge and Thomas Raji
Published in: The Oxford Handbook of Kenyan Politics, 2020, Page(s) 673-688, ISBN 9780191853227
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Conflict and cooperation: The adverse effects of climate change

Author(s): Andrew Linke and Clionadh Raleigh
Published in: Making Geographies of Peace and Conflict, 2023, Page(s) 19, ISBN 9781003345794
Publisher: Routledge

Other (9)

Riders on the Storm: Rebels, Soldiers, and Paramilitaries in Sudan’s Margins

Author(s): Dan Watson
Published in: ACLED Analysis, Issue Africa, 2021
Publisher: ACLED

Twilight Institutions: Land conflict and hybrid authorities in Benin’s Borgou department

Author(s): Claude Biao, Kars de Bruijne
Published in: The Clingendael Institute, 2023
Publisher: Netherlands Institute of International Relations ‘Clingendael’

Laws of Attraction: Northern Benin and risk of violent extremist spillover

Author(s): Kars de Bruijne
Published in: The Clingendael Institute, 2021
Publisher: Netherlands Institute of International Relations ‘Clingendael’

Conflict environments and coverage

Author(s): Clionadh Raleigh, Matt Batten Carew and Andrea Carboni
Published in: The Clingendael Institute, 2018
Publisher: The Clingendael Institute

What causes regime change in African autocracies?

Author(s): Andrea Carboni and Clionadh Raleigh
Published in: Africa at LSE, 2022
Publisher: Africa at LSE

Book Review: How to Become a Big Man in Africa: Subalternity, Elites, and Ethnic Politics in Contemporary Nigeria, by Wale Adebanwi

Author(s): Dominic Burbidge
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adae024

Red Lines: Upheaval and Containment in the Horn of Africa

Author(s): Dan Watson
Published in: ACLED Analysis, Issue Africa, 2021
Publisher: ACLED

Danse Macabre: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Post-Oil Sudan

Author(s): Dan Watson
Published in: ACLED Analysis, Issue Africa, 2020
Publisher: ACLED

Appetite for Destruction: The Military Counter-Revolution in Sudan

Author(s): Dan Watson
Published in: ACLED Analysis, Issue Africa, 2021
Publisher: ACLED

Thesis and dissertations (3)

Essays on Political Elites and Violence in Changing Political Orders of Middle East and Africa

Author(s): Andrea Carboni
Published in: University of Sussex, 2020
Publisher: University of Sussex

The Political Carousel: Elite Power-sharing, Political Instability and the Allocation of Senior Government Posts in Africa

Author(s): Daniel Wigmore Shepard
Published in: 2020
Publisher: University of Sussex

Essays on Political Elites and Violence in Changing Political Orders of Middle East and Africa

Author(s): Andrea Carboni
Published in: 2020, Page(s) 221
Publisher: Sussex University