Politics of Mass Killing in Autocratic Regimes

Bumba Mukherjee is Professor of Political Science at Penn State University, USA. He has been Visiting Research Scholar and Faculty Fellow at Princeton University and Visiting Faculty Fellow at the University of Notre Dame, USA. He is the author of Democracy and Trade Policy in Developing Countries (2016), Politics of Corruption in Dictatorships (2016), and Democracy, Electoral Systems and Judicial Empowerment (2014). Ore Koren is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. Previously, he was U.S. Foreign Policy and International Security Fellow at Dartmouth College and a Jennings Randolph Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace. His research has appeared in multiple academic journals, including Journal of Politics, International Studies Quarterlyand American Journal of International Economics.

• 1. Chapter 1: Introduction.- 2. Chapter 2: Food Crises, Urban Development, and Mass Killing In Nondemocratic States.- 3. Chapter 3: Urban Development and Mass Killing: A First Look at the Data.- 4. Chapter 4: Statistical Analysis of Food Crises and Mass Killing.- 5. Chapter 5: Urban Development, Food Shortages and Mass Killing In Authoritarian Pakistan.- 6. Chapter 6: Food Riots, Urbanization and Mass Killing Campaigns: Indonesia And Malaysia.- 7. Chapter 7: Conclusion.