PSC-100 Quiz: Political Violence Quiz Study Guide

• School: University of Tampa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PSC-100
• Professor: Matthew Becker

Document Summary

Political violence: politically motivated violence outside of state control. Goal: to achieve some political objective through use of force. Qualities of institution are essential to political violence. Institutions are essential to violence because of politics, economics, and social gorups. Unitary , single member districts, economic inequality, excluded ethnic groups. Based on specific world views, a set of problems, justification for violence. Focuses on individual who carries out violence. In case of suicide terrorism, it is the individual act rather than a group phenomenon. Negatives: leads to long term resentment and flare-ups.