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Replication Data for Meet the Victim: Police Corruption, Violence, and Political Mobilization

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Title Replication Data for Meet the Victim: Police Corruption, Violence, and Political Mobilization
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QLO0E2
 
Creator Ponce, Aldo F.
Somuano, Ma. Fernanda
Velázquez López Velarde, Rodrigo
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Recent literature has analyzed the relationship between governmental corruption and political behavior, focusing on voting turnout (Stockemer, LaMontagne and Scruggs 2012). Fewer studies have examined the impact of corruption on non-electoral political participation. This article fills this gap by examining how non-electoral political participation is influenced by corruption within one of the most important institutions dealing with citizens’ welfare and safety: the police. We focus our research on Mexico because the effects of police corruption have been increasingly felt in the country in recent decades. We find that experiences of police corruption raise the likelihood of taking the streets to protest. Interestingly, we also find that corruption experiences specifically with police bureaucracies lead to greater likelihood of non-electoral participation through institutional channels. We also report that the combination of police corruption and violent crime alienates citizens from the political sphere.
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Contributor Ponce, ALDO