{"product_id":"playing-with-fire-parties-and-political-violence-in-kenya-and-india-hardback-9781009444231","title":"Playing with Fire; Parties and Political Violence in Kenya and India (Hardback) 9781009444231","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePlaying with Fire\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eParties and Political Violence in Kenya and India\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCombines data from Kenya and India to show how party instability can impact elites' decisions to organize party violence.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAditi Malik (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009444231, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 27 June 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e300 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.617 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Understanding party volatility is novel and useful for practitioners engaged in preventing and mitigating political violence … In this regard, Malik's book adds a new tool for preventing violence and opens the door for further research.' Dorina A. Bekoe, African Studies Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eDrawing on a rare cross-regional comparison of Kenya and India, Playing with Fire develops a novel explanation about ethnic party violence. Combining rich historical, qualitative, and quantitative data, the book demonstrates how levels of party instability can crucially inform the decisions of political elites to organize or support violence. Centrally, it shows that settings marked by unstable parties are more vulnerable to experiencing recurring and major episodes of party violence than those populated by durable parties. This is because transient parties enable politicians to disregard voters' future negative reactions to conflict. By contrast, stable party organizations compel politicians to take such costs into account, thereby dampening the potential for recurring and severe party violence. By centering political parties as key actors in the production of conflict, and bringing together evidence from both Africa and South Asia, Playing with Fire contributes new insights to the study of political violence.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e List of Tables\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e 1. Parties and political violence\u003cbr\u003e 2. A theory of party instability and political violence\u003cbr\u003e 3. The development of divergent parties and party systems in Kenya and India\u003cbr\u003e 4. Party instability and political violence in Kenya\u003cbr\u003e 5. Party fragility and subnational patterns of violence in Kenya's rift valley and coast regions\u003cbr\u003e 6. Party stabilization, declining riot violence, and new modalities of political conflict in India\u003cbr\u003e 7. Party politics and subnational trajectories of riot violence in India's Hyderabad and Meerut cities\u003cbr\u003e 8. Party instability and political violence: comparative insights from Ghana and Turkey\u003cbr\u003e 9. Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Appendix A. National and subnational correlations between replacement volatility and alternative measures of party instability\u003cbr\u003e Appendix B. Elite interviews\u003cbr\u003e Appendix C. The development of civil society in Kenya and India\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Datasets.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Comparative politics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Comparative politics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Comparative%20politics%20%5BJPB%5D%22\"\u003eJPB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52414013309208,"sku":"9781009444231","price":66.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009444231i.jpg?v=1784335849","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/playing-with-fire-parties-and-political-violence-in-kenya-and-india-hardback-9781009444231","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}