Legacies of Violence and Impunity
Explore whether and the extent to which state specialists in violence and their coercive practices, forged in autocracy or during civil war, survive the transition to democracy and peace agreements and morph into the criminal underworld. Uncover the long-term legacies from political violence into criminal violence.
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Trejo, Guillermo, and Sandra Ley. Votes, Drugs, and Violence: The Political Logic of Criminal Wars in Mexico (Cambridge University Press, Studies in Comparative Politics Series, forthcoming, summer 2020)
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Trejo, Guillermo and Sandra Ley. “Why Did Drug Cartels Go to War in Mexico? Subnational Party Alternation, the Breakdown of Criminal Protection, and the Onset of Large-Scale Violence,” Comparative Political Studies (2017)
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Turner, Jacob. “Democracy All the Way Down: Electoral Contestation and Violent Crime in Salvadoran Municipalities”. In Progress.
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Turner, Jacob. “Guerrillas and Authoritarians: Partners in Post-War Polarization”. In Progress.