Nationalism, Violence, and Legitimacy: Response to Mob Violence and the Enforcement of the Law

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dc.contributor.advisorMcGrath, Robert
dc.creatorBernbaum, Adam
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-17T19:05:18Z
dc.date.available2023-03-17T19:05:18Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractWhy do states tolerate mob violence? This dissertation theorizes that the interaction among variety of nationalism, returns to violence, and salience of legitimacy influence response to mob violence. Through case studies of mobs in four eras of American history, I find that mob violence is most likely to be tolerated when returns to violence are high, salience of legitimacy is low, and there is an ethnonationalist local government. When salience of legitimacy is high, a contested response between local and supralocal authorities is more likely. These findings demonstrate the importance of the under-enforcement of the law to American ethnonationalists.
dc.format.extent396 pages
dc.format.mediumdoctoral dissertations
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1920/13081
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsCopyright 2022 Adam Bernbaum
dc.rights.urihttps://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0
dc.subjectCivil rights
dc.subjectLegitimacy
dc.subjectMobs
dc.subjectNationalism
dc.subjectViolence
dc.subject.keywordsPolitical science
dc.titleNationalism, Violence, and Legitimacy: Response to Mob Violence and the Enforcement of the Law
dc.typeText
thesis.degree.disciplinePolitical Science
thesis.degree.grantorGeorge Mason University
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.namePh.D. in Political Science

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