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Explaining and Mitigating Electoral Violence

Explaining and Mitigating Electoral Violence. Sarah Birch Department of Politics School of Social and Political Sciences University of Glasgow. Project researchers. Sarah Birch, Politics Paul Cockshott, Computing Science Iadh O unis, Computing science Craig M acdonald, Computing Science

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Explaining and Mitigating Electoral Violence

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  1. Explaining and Mitigating Electoral Violence Sarah Birch Department of Politics School of Social and Political Sciences University of Glasgow

  2. Project researchers • Sarah Birch, Politics • Paul Cockshott, Computing Science • Iadh Ounis, Computing science • Craig Macdonald, Computing Science • A PhD student

  3. Aims of the project To develop conceptual, practical and methodological tools to: • Understand electoral violence • Assess strategies for deterring electoral violence • Assess strategies for preventing/minimising electoral violence

  4. Electoral violence and social media • This project does not study social media • This project will use social media as data to study electoral violence • Specifically, the project will use tweets about electoral violence to identify incidents of electoral violence in selected elections around the world

  5. Using social media to approximate events • A dictionary of terms will be developed • Pilot coding of tweets will be conducted manually and compared with independent data on electoral violence for pilot cases • Machine-learning techniques will be developed to analyse tweets and interpolate from these a list of incidents of electoral violence + salient characteristics of each incident

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