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Lynching and Local Justice - Legitimacy and Accountability in Weak States (Paperback)
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Lynching and Local Justice - Legitimacy and Accountability in Weak States (Paperback)
Series: Elements in Political Economy
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What are the social and political consequences of poor state
governance and low state legitimacy? Under what conditions does
lynching - lethal, extralegal group violence to punish offenses to
the community - become an acceptable practice? We argue lynching
emerges when neither the state nor its challengers have a monopoly
over legitimate authority. When authority is contested or
ambiguous, mass punishment for transgressions can emerge that is
public, brutal, and requires broad participation. Using new
cross-national data, we demonstrate lynching is a persistent
problem in dozens of countries over the last four decades. Drawing
on original survey and interview data from Haiti and South Africa,
we show how lynching emerges and becomes accepted. Specifically,
support for lynching most likely occurs in one of three conditions:
when states fail to provide governance, when non-state actors
provide social services, or when neighbors must rely on self-help.
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