“In developing the volume of essays for ‘Voting in Fear,’ the United States Institute of Peace has assembled a comprehensive set of insights into the political, security, social, and economic factors which create vulnerabilities for electoral violence in Sub-Sahara Africa. As a result, this book represents an important contribution to understanding the conflict dynamics of such violence so that policymakers and practitioners can develop effective response measures to prevent, manage, and mediate electoral conflict.”

— Jeff Fischer, Electoral Security Consultant

“This comprehensive volume introduces state-of-the-art-data that helps focus debate and research on electoral violence in conflict. Featuring excellent case studies by prominent scholars, ‘Voting in Fear’ is an accessible, well-researched book that offers thoughtful and realistic policy recommendations.”

—Terrence Lyons, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University

“This volume is an excellent addition to the growing body of work on electoral violence. It explores many of the key variables relating to the causes, actors, and impacts of electoral violence in Sub-Saharan Africa, providing much-needed depth and complexity to a phenomenon that many dismiss as inevitable and simplistic in its motivations.”

— Lisa Kammerud, Electoral Conflict Specialist, F. Clifton White Applied Research Center, International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES)

“Electoral violence remains an impediment to democratic consolidation in Africa’s emerging democracies, but there has been very little systematic scholarly analysis of it.  With a novel data set, this volume fills a gap in the literature. It presents a theoretically informed and context-sensitive analysis of the historical, institutional, and structural conditions that facilitate electoral violence, and the calculations of political actors that drive, electoral violence.”

—Shaheen Mozaffar, Bridgewater State University