EconPapers    
Economics at your fingertips  
 

Why are Mexican politicians being assassinated?: The role of oil theft and narcocracy and the electoral consequences of organized crime

Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero and Nayely Iturbe

No wp-2023-7, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: When 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. When criminal groups compete, they may also resort to political violence to influence which candidate wins local elections in strategic areas and retaliate when state action threatens their survival.

Keywords: Crime; Drug trafficking; Political violence; Voter turnout (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cdm, nep-law and nep-pol
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.wider.unu.edu/sites/default/files/Publ ... -organized-crime.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:unu:wpaper:wp-2023-7

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Siméon Rapin (repec@wider.unu.edu).

 
Page updated 2024-12-28
Handle: RePEc:unu:wpaper:wp-2023-7