Mafia, elections and violence against politicians
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2017.08.004
Abstract: Organized crime uses political violence to influence politics in a wide set of countries. This paper exploits a novel dataset of attacks directed towards Italian local politicians to study how (and why) criminal organizations use… read more here.
Keywords: violence; elections violence; violence politicians; mafia elections ... See more keywords