Understanding Electoral Violence through Complex Textual Data: OSCE Monitoring Missions in Different Contexts

Michal Mochtak

Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 2021, vol. 44, issue 8, 646-667

Abstract: The article analyzes more than twenty years of evidence on electoral violence as reported by Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) monitoring mission reports. It identifies prevailing trends of electoral violence in the OSCE participating states in order to better understand how the phenomenon is understood and framed by the leading international monitoring organizations in the region. The analysis utilizes a unique approach based on automated content analysis employing counting algorithms and latent semantic indexing. The results of the analysis show how electoral violence differs throughout the region while highlighting the qualitative variations in regional patterns of the reported incidents of election-related violence.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2019.1575036

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