Political Violence and the 2021 South African Municipal Elections

• In Event: Electoral Violence, Voter Attitudes, and Voter Behavior in Africa

Brief Overview

This paper relies on a georeferenced dataset, election security assessments, and conflict event data to analyze the relationship between political violence and voter behavior in South Africa’s recent municipal elections.

Authors

• Rod C. Alence, University of the Witwatersrand

• M Anne Pitcher, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor