We investigate how criminal organizations strategically use violence to influence elections in order to get captured … politicians elected. The model offers novel testable implications about the use of pre-electoral violence under different types of … rates in Italy since 1887, comparing the extent of 'electoral-violence cycles' between areas with a higher and lower …

We investigate how criminal organizations strategically use violence to influence elections in order to get captured … politicians elected. The model offers novel testable implications about the use of pre-electoral violence under different types of … rates in Italy since 1887, comparing the extent of ‘electoral-violence cycles' between areas with a higher and lower …

dynamics of bribes and violence around elections in democracies and autocracies using a novel measure of corruption based on …Pressure groups may use bribes, violence, or a combination of both to bend politics to their will, and the choice … pressure groups use political violence to sway democratic elections in favor of their preferred candidates, while resorting to …