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Living In Gang-Controlled Neighborhoods: Impacts On Electoral And Nonelectoral Participation In El Salvador, Abby Córdova
Living In Gang-Controlled Neighborhoods: Impacts On Electoral And Nonelectoral Participation In El Salvador, Abby Córdova
Political Science Faculty Publications
Gangs’ territorial control affects the lives of residents in thousands of neighborhoods across Latin America, particularly in northern Central American countries. I argue that gang dominance constrains the ability of neighborhood residents to mobilize politically and consequently resist gang violence through institutionalized channels. Living in gang-controlled neighborhoods results in fewer incentives and opportunities to make political elites accountable for one’s personal safety. Even residents who have already experienced crime firsthand are discouraged from turning to politics as a strategy to change the status quo. My theoretical insights identify mechanisms through which gangs’ neighborhood control affects nonelectoral and electoral participation. To …
The Primary Colors Of Political Dysfunction, Dillon Nichols
The Primary Colors Of Political Dysfunction, Dillon Nichols
Ex-Patt Magazine
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Rational Russia: Decision-Making In A Declining Superpower, J. Haley Tucker
Rational Russia: Decision-Making In A Declining Superpower, J. Haley Tucker
Ex-Patt Magazine
Russia’s 2008 invasion of Georgia demonstrates that Putin’s state still behaves rationally.