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Why are Mexican politicians being assassinated? : the role of oil theft and narcocracy and the electoral consequences of organized crime

Gutiérrez-Romero, Roxana; Iturbe, Nayely - 2023

When does organized crime resort to assassinating politicians? In narcocracies, criminal groups co-opt political elites through bribery in exchange for protection to traffic illegal drugs. When criminal groups compete, they may also resort to political violence to influence which candidate wins...

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Ethnic conflict: the role of ethnic representation

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Lakshmi Iyer - 2023

We investigate the impact of the political representation of minority groups on the incidence of ethnic conflict in India. We code data on Hindu-Muslim violence and Muslim political representation in India and leverage quasi-random variation in legislator religion generated by the results of...

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The loser's long curse : electoral consequences of a class conflict

Meriläinen, Jaakko; Mitrunen, Matti - 2022

This paper presents evidence of political legacies of exposure to a violent class conflict over 100 years. We revisit the Finnish Civil War of 1918 and first trace out the impact of local conflict exposure on electoral outcomes over a quarter-century period between the World Wars. The electoral...

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Trade liberalization and the rise of populism in Brazil

Iacoella, Francesco; Justino, Patricia; Martorano, Bruno - 2020

This paper investigates the long-term impact of economic shocks on populism, by exploiting a natural experiment created … president, respectively. The results show that trade reforms explain the rise of populism in Brazil during the last two decades … likely to support Bolsonaro in 2018. The link between trade liberalization and populism is mediated by austerity in both …

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Community organization and armed group behaviour : evidence from Colombia

Gáfaro, Margarita; Ibáñez, Ana María; Justino, Patricia - 2022

This paper investigates how armed groups affect the organization of local communities during armed conflict in Colombia. We estimate the effect of communities' exposure to armed groups with an econometric specification that takes into account individual and municipality-year fixed effects and an...

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Civic legacies of wartime governance

Justino, Patricia; Stojetz, Wolfgang - 2019

In conflict zones around the world, both state and non-state actors deliver governance at local levels. This paper explores the long-term impact of individual exposure to 'wartime governance' on social and political behaviour. We operationalize wartime governance as the local policy choices and...

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The effects of wartime institutions on households' ability to cope with shocks : evidence for Colombia

Ibáñez, Ana María; Arteaga, Julián; Cárdenas … - 2019

This paper studies the legacies of wartime institutions, measured as rebelocracy, on the ability of households to cope with negative income shocks. Rebelocracy is the social order established by non-state armed actors in the communities they control. By providing public goods and a predictable...

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Conflict and development : recent research advances and future agendas

Brück, Tilman; Justino, Patricia; Martin-Shields, … - 2017

We survey selected parts of the growing literature on the microeconomics of violent conflict, identifying where academic research has started to establish stylized facts and where methodological and knowledge gaps remain. We focus our review on the role of civilian agency in conflict; on wartime...

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Elite murder and popular resistance : evidence from post-World War II Poland

Krakowski, Krzysztof; Schaub, Max - 2022

Does repression of opposition elites prevent resistance against foreign-imposed regimes? On the one hand, elimination of elites can undermine the opposition's capacity for antiregime resistance. Yet killing opposition elites deprives the new regime of useful human capital. Co-optation of elites...

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Riots and social capital in urban India

Aghajanian, Alia; Justino, Patricia; Tranchant, Jean-Pierre - 2020

This paper explores the relationship between household exposure to riots and social capital in urban India using a panel dataset collected by the authors in the state of Maharashtra. The analysis applies a random-effect model with lagged covariates to estimate the exogenous effect of riots on...

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