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Explaining and Mitigating
Electoral Violence
Sarah Birch
Department of Politics
School of Social and Political Sciences
University of Glasgow
Project researchers
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Sarah Birch, Politics
Paul Cockshott, Computing Science
Iadh Ounis, Computing science
Craig Macdonald, Computing Science
A PhD student
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
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
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