Violent Victors: Why Bloodstained Parties Win Postwar Elections

by Sarah Zukerman Daly

Why populations brutalized in war elect their tormentors

One of the great puzzles of electoral politics is how parties that commit mass atrocities in war often win the support of victimized populations to establish the postwar political order. Violent Victors traces how parties derived from violent, wartime belligerents successfully campaign as the best providers of future societal peace, attracting votes not just from their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069123132X
• ISBN13: 9780691231327
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"