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Spraying Conflict: Aerial Drug Eradication and Armed Violence in Colombia
The expansion of mining and conflict violence are closely related phenomena, but there is widespread variation in the coercive …
Juan Felipe Campos, Camilo Nieto-Matiz, Luis L. Schenoni
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Mining and violence in Latin America: The state’s coercive responses to anti-mining resistance
The expansion of mining and conflict violence are closely related phenomena, but there is widespread variation in the coercive …
Moises Arce, Camilo Nieto-Matiz
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Why programmatic parties reduce criminal violence: Theory and evidence from Brazil
Extensive research suggests that electoral competition and power alternations increase violence in weakly institutionalized …
Camilo Nieto-Matiz, Natán Skigin
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Containing Large-Scale Criminal Violence Through Internationalized Prosecution: How the Collaboration Between the CICIG and Guatemala’s Law Enforcement Contributed to a Sustained Reduction in the Murder Rate
How do post conflict societies contain large scale criminal violence when state security forces that committed atrocities during a …
Guillermo Trejo, Camilo Nieto-Matiz
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Land and State Capacity During Civil Wars: How Land-Based Coalitions Undermine Property Taxation in Colombia
Revenue, especially that from agricultural crops, has been considered fundamental for the development of state capacity. While existing …
Camilo Nieto-Matiz
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When the State Becomes Complicit: Mayors, Criminal Actors, and the Deliberate Weakening of the Local State in Colombia
Some politicians engage in relationships with criminal actors in pursuit of mutual interests. How does their rise to power affect state …
Camilo Nieto-Matiz
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Backing Despots? Foreign Aid and the Survival of Autocratic Regimes
What is the effect of foreign aid on the survival of autocratic regimes? Extant work about the effect of foreign aid on the recipient’s …
Camilo Nieto-Matiz, Luis Schenoni
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Democracy in the countryside: The rural sources of violence against voters in Colombia
What are the subnational variations of violence against voters? This article studies the effect of land concentration on electoral …
Camilo Nieto-Matiz
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