Elections don't lessen conflict: why the 'senseless' post-poll violence?

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Barolsky, V. (2011) Elections dont lessen conflict: why the senseless post-poll violence?. HSRC Review. 9(1):10-12. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/3792 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/3792

http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en/review/March-2011/post-poll-violence
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/3792
 
Abstract:
VANESSA BAROLSKY examines the way in which South Africa's fourth democratic elections, held in April 2009, have been interpreted as if it was the triumphal moment of democratic politics. According to this interpretation, elections are capable of steering the country inevitably towards a state of permanent peace through an ideology-free, mechanical process - a world in which, 'history has ended', a world free from ideology and hence free from the stain of violence.
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25 Aug 2015
 
DEMOCRACY
ELECTIONS
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