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This research investigates the ideological frameworks that drive regimes toward genocide and the combinations of those frameworks.

August 3, 2026Open Access

Architectures of Extermination: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Ideological Frameworks and Genocidal Motivation Across 16 Global Regimes

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LPLaszlo PokornyRutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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Qualitative comparative analysis reveals critical ideological combinations leading to genocide across regimes, indicating early-warning system implications.

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This research investigates the ideological frameworks that drive regimes toward genocide and the combinations of those frameworks.
Conducted a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) of sixteen leader-regime cases over 250 years.
Analyzed five ideological conditions: ethnonationalism, class-based ideology, colonial extractivism, religious or ethnic supremacism, imperial expansionism.
Formulated theoretical architecture, the Ideological Prism, to interpret how ideologies catalyze genocide.
No single ideology sufficiently explains high genocidal outcomes; ethnonationalism and colonial extractivism are individually necessary for severity.
Identified two equifinal paths to genocide: one driven by class and supremacism, another by ethnonationalism and colonial extractivism, both achieving perfect consistency (1.0).
Confirmed three hypotheses regarding sufficiency of ideological combinations in leading to genocidal outcomes.

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Laszlo Pokorny (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a70407775942ff7265e5950 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21740571

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Qualitative comparative analysis reveals critical ideological combinations leading to genocide across regimes, indicating early-warning system implications.

Architectures of Extermination: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Ideological Frameworks and Genocidal Motivation Across 16 Global Regimes

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Architectures of Extermination: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Ideological Frameworks and Genocidal Motivation Across 16 Global Regimes

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