violence in turn increases the income of the protection providers. The result is a violence multiplier. Combining elements from … example, a decrease in the cost of violence increases violence more than pari passu and increases the value of being a … criminal. The violence multiplier also generates an incentive for the protection providers to welcome new partners into the …

I examine the relationship between organized crime, violence and the quality of the political class in Italy. I show … regions. Greater violence before the elections is in turn associated with a lower quality of the political class, as reflected …

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 …