Govea, Rodger M.; West, Gerald T. - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 25 (1981) 2, pp. 349-368
This article investigates the possibility of a contagion effect in each of fourteen Latin American republics from 1949 through 1963. Using a data set drawn from the Hispanic American Report, riot frequencies are compared with the Poisson and contagious Poisson distributions. The authors find...