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The Curse of Corruption - A quantitative analysis of the association between Administrative Capacity and Violence

Lövgren, Jonathan LU (2019) STVK02 20191
Department of Political Science
Abstract
It is not uncommon that states repress and oppress its citizens by exerting violence upon them. Sometimes this violence leads to cases where states abuse their power. This abuse can lead to terrible consequences which several historical and contemporary cases shows. When analyzing state violence, it ought to be put in the context of violence from non-state actors, which often eclipse the violence of states. In this thesis, the relationship between administrative capacity as explanatory variable and non-state actor violence towards marginalized groups as dependent variable was analyzed using a quantitative analysis. Three hypotheses were created and tested in a statistical model to conclude what proxy of administrative capacity is the best... (More)
It is not uncommon that states repress and oppress its citizens by exerting violence upon them. Sometimes this violence leads to cases where states abuse their power. This abuse can lead to terrible consequences which several historical and contemporary cases shows. When analyzing state violence, it ought to be put in the context of violence from non-state actors, which often eclipse the violence of states. In this thesis, the relationship between administrative capacity as explanatory variable and non-state actor violence towards marginalized groups as dependent variable was analyzed using a quantitative analysis. Three hypotheses were created and tested in a statistical model to conclude what proxy of administrative capacity is the best predictor of the dependent variable. The result suggests that corruption and an index of corruption and governmental effectiveness are significantly associated with the dependent variable. It was concluded that the best predictor of non-state actor violence against marginalized groups is corruption. This thesis supports the view that corruption is closely associated with violence and it questions the belief that governmental effectiveness is a good predictor of violence. The results also suggest, that future research should analyze the subunits of corruption and those subunits association to violence. (Less)
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author
Lövgren, Jonathan LU
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course
STVK02 20191
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Administrative capacity, Corruption, Governmental effectiveness, Violence, Non-state actor violence, Marginalized groups
language
English
id
8975975
date added to LUP
2019-09-06 09:58:40
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2019-09-06 09:58:40
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  abstract     = {{It is not uncommon that states repress and oppress its citizens by exerting violence upon them. Sometimes this violence leads to cases where states abuse their power. This abuse can lead to terrible consequences which several historical and contemporary cases shows. When analyzing state violence, it ought to be put in the context of violence from non-state actors, which often eclipse the violence of states. In this thesis, the relationship between administrative capacity as explanatory variable and non-state actor violence towards marginalized groups as dependent variable was analyzed using a quantitative analysis. Three hypotheses were created and tested in a statistical model to conclude what proxy of administrative capacity is the best predictor of the dependent variable. The result suggests that corruption and an index of corruption and governmental effectiveness are significantly associated with the dependent variable. It was concluded that the best predictor of non-state actor violence against marginalized groups is corruption. This thesis supports the view that corruption is closely associated with violence and it questions the belief that governmental effectiveness is a good predictor of violence. The results also suggest, that future research should analyze the subunits of corruption and those subunits association to violence.}},
  author       = {{Lövgren, Jonathan}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{The Curse of Corruption - A quantitative analysis of the association between Administrative Capacity and Violence}},
  year         = {{2019}},
}