ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the data used to test the theoretical argument advanced in the text. It also details the measurement of the outcome variable, explanatory variables and control variables. The chapter also makes a case that the focus of analysis on African countries is because most of these countries started experimenting with democracy around the same time in the early 1990s after the end of the Cold War. This allows me to control for region effects and experience with democracy so that the variation in election violence between countries cannot be attributed to the difference in the starting points on the path towards democracy.
