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The violent legacy of fascism: Neofascist political violence in Italy, 1969–88We still have limited knowledge about the long-term effects of fascism on European democracies. European countries experienced cycles of violence between the 1960s and 1980s. Can such violence be explained by legacies of mobilization during fascism?...
Conflict Fascism ItalyWorking Paper
Legacies of victimization: Evidence from forced resettlement in ZimbabweHow does wartime victimization shape victims’ political attitudes in the long run?...
Political attitudes Political violence ResettlementWorking Paper
Why are Mexican politicians being assassinated?: The role of oil theft and narcocracy and the electoral consequences of organized crimeWhen 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...
Crime Drug trafficking Political violenceWorking Paper
Hidden hostility: donor attention and political violencePolitical violence is a worldwide problem that has been on the rise over the past decade. The international dimension of domestic repression and dissent is a particularly relevant factor yet surprisingly understudied...
Political violence Repression RiotsWorking Paper
Between victory and statehood: Armed violence in post-war AbkhaziaWhat accounts for armed violence in the aftermath of civil war? Efforts to develop a comprehensive framework to understand this phenomenon have been made in the literature...
Violence Political violence AbkhaziaWorking Paper
Wartime governance and state-building trajectories in post-conflict societiesTo date, there is limited understanding about the consequences of wartime dynamics for post-war state-building processes...
Political violence War ConflictPanel discussion
UNU-WIDER at ISA 2022 Annual ConventionUNU-WIDER Senior Research Fellow Patricia Justino and Research Associate Rute Martins Caeiro join in a virtual panel discussion Trust and Governance in Unstable Democracies on 29 March 2022 14:00 - 15:30 (UTC-5) as part of the International Studies...
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Revisiting the links between economic inequality and political violence: The role of social mobilizationThe main aim of this paper is to explore theoretically important mechanisms through which economic inequalities may affect the emergence of political violence given the forms of social mobilization they (may) generate...
Inequality Political violence Social mobilizationProject
Institutional legacies of violent conflict
Theme: Transforming states
Violent conflict Political violence Wartime governanceProject
Inequality and governance in unstable democracies – the mediating role of trust
Theme: Transforming states
Governance Trust Economic inequalityWorking Paper
An empirical analysis of state fragility and growth: The impact of state ineffectiveness and political violenceThe role of the state in promoting development is well established in the institutional economics literature. Yet, in recent decades the attention has been turned to the opposite side of the spectrum...
State fragility State ineffectiveness Political violence