Vargas, Juan F.; Purroy, Miguel; Coy, Felipe; Perilla, … - 2024
institutions. We do so by exploiting the randomness in the timing of landmine explosions relative to election days, comparing the … show that landmine explosions are salient stimuli that produce fear, reducing political participation. While the turnout … reduction takes place across the ideological spectrum, we document that the explosions induce shifts in the political …