The Monopoly of Violence: Evidence from Colombia

By Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson, Rafael J. Santos. 2009

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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The Role of Local Officials in New Democracies: Evidence from Indonesia (2014, background): “…Robinson and Verdier (2002); Dal Bó and Di Tella (2003); Wantchekon (2003); Acemoglu and Robinson (2006); Dal Bó (2007); Baland and Robinson (2008); Acemoglu, Robinson, and Santos-Villagran (2010); Acemoglu, Ticchi, and Vindigni (2008, 2010); Persson and Zhuravskaya (2011); and Finan and…”
End-of-conflict deforestation: Evidence from Colombia’s peace agreement (2020, background): “We thus follow a growing empirical literature on the Colombian conflict (see e.g. Ch et al., 2018; Acemoglu et al., 2013; Fergusson et al., 2018), and use past violence over a period of years as an (imperfect) indicator of influence.”
Mafia, elections and violence against politicians (2017, methodology): “The two theories are that criminal organizations strategically use violence (1) before elections, to minimize the adverse selection of politicians or (2) after elections, to minimize the moral hazard from politicians.”
Weak States: Causes and Consequences of the Sicilian Mafia (2019, background): “Second, paramilitary organizations in several countries in Latin America, including the united self-defense forces (AUC) in Colombia, ORDEN groups in El Salvador and civilian self-defense patrols in Guatemala, appear to have received support from landowners to fight left-wing groups and movements, i”
Fighting and Voting: Violent Conflict and Electoral Politics (2011, background): “…in Kenya’s Rift Valley Province during the crisis following the disputed 2007 election; it also recalls accounts of how paramilitaries in Colombia influenced elections by intimidating voters or engaging in fraud, as argued by Acemoglu, Robinson, and Santos-Villagran (2009) in a recent article.”