Beaten ballots : Political participation dynamics amidst police interventions
Guinjoan, Marc (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Ciència Política i de Dret Públic)
Rodon, Toni (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Data:	2021
Resum:	What is the effect of violence on political mobilization? Taking the repression-mobilization nexus debate as a starting point, we study the effects of police interventions on political participation, focusing on the Spanish police crackdown on Catalonia's independence referendum on 1 October 2017. We analyze the effect of police actions on turnout using detailed aggregate data, as well as a survey conducted a few days after the referendum. The two empirical approaches show that police interventions had both deterrent and inverse spatial spillover effects. Although police raids had a local negative impact on turnout, they induced positive spillover effects in the surrounding areas. Our findings also indicate heterogeneity in the spatial dynamics, with police actions encouraging people to go to vote in nearby areas, but also mobilizing residents in neighboring areas to participate, especially those individuals with fewer incentives to turn out to vote.
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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Civil/domestic conflict ; Ethnicity and nationalism ; Political participation and turnout ; Voting behavior ; SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Publicat a:	Political Science Research and Methods, Vol. 10 Núm. 3 (2021) , p. 153-170, ISSN 2049-8489

DOI: 10.1017/psrm.2020.48

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