I am researching political and electoral violence and I need latest electoral violence theories propounded from 2011 to date because all the theories accessible to me are from 2010 and earlier and they will not be accepted by my institution.
Dear Odoh Abutu: You may want to read Paul Collier´s short and precise book entitled "Guns, Votes and Violence." An anthropological account by Stanley Thambiah is also useful. The book is entitled "The Levelling Crowd."
Check also Bashin and Gandhi's paper "Timing and targeting of state repression in authoritarian elections": http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026137941300111X
В России политическое насилие на выборах исследуется в рамках "Электоральной криминологии", а в целом политическое насилие как средство достижения политических целей в рамках "Политической криминологии", а жертвы политического насилия исследуются "Криминальной политической виктимологией".