Varieties of Violence
Document, map, estimate, and explain patterns of political and criminal violence, including murders and extrajudicial executions, forced disappearances, forced internal displacement, and torture in contexts of large-scale political and criminal violence. Particular attention paid to mass atrocities, including collective massacres and episodes of mass displacement and mass disappearance.
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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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Trejo, Guillermo and Sandra Ley. “High-Profile Criminal Violence: Why Drug Cartels Murder Government Officials and Party Candidates in Mexico.” British Journal of Political Science. Cambridge University Press, 1–27 (2019)
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Nieto-Matiz, Camilo and Natán Skigin. “The Unintended Consequences of Democratic Reforms: Electronic Voting and Criminal Violence in Brazil”. In progress.
- Skigin, Natán, “Predicting Large-Scale Violence in Criminal Wars”. In progress.