Context: Barbara Harff and Ted Gurr defined genocide as "the promotion and execution of policies by a state or its agents which result in the deaths of a substantial portion of a group ...[when] the victimized groups are defined primarily in terms of their communal characteristics, i.e., ethnicity, religion or nationality." Harff and Gurr also differentiate between genocides and politicides by the characteristics by which members of a group are identified by the state. In genocides, the victimized groups are defined primarily in terms of their communal characteristics, i.e., ethnicity, religion or nationality. In politicides the victim groups are defined primarily in terms of their hierarchical position or political opposition to the regime and dominant groups. Daniel D. Polsby and Don B. Kates, Jr. state that "... we follow Harff's distinction between genocides and 'pogroms,' which she describes as 'short-lived outbursts by mobs, which, although often condoned by authorities, rarely persist.' If the violence persists for long enough, however, Harff argues, the distinction between condonation and complicity collapses."

Question: Harff and Gurr's definition of genocide included the promotion and execution of what, by a state or its agents?
Answer: policies

Question: Harff and Gurr further defined what in terms of ethnicity, religion or nationality?
Answer: victimized groups

Question: What was important to Harff and Gurr to distinguish from genocides?
Answer: politicides

Question: Along with ethnicity and and religion, what other characteristic defined a member of a victimized group?
Answer: nationality

Question: What did Harff define as "short-lived outbursts by mobs...?"
Answer: pogroms

Question: Haff and Gurr's definition of opposition included the promotion and execution of what by a state or its agents?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What did Harff and Gurr further define in terms of outbursts?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What was important to Harff and Gurr to distinguish between opposition?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What other characteristic defined a member of a regime along with ethnicity and religion?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What did Harff define as "short-lived outbursts by the state?"
Answer: Unanswerable