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How Government Coordination Controlled Organized Crime

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  • Viridiana Rios

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This article provides empirical evidence showing that when a multilevel government is well coordinated, organized crime can be more effectively controlled. Using a time-variant data set of Mexico’s cocaine markets at the subnational level and Cox proportional-hazards regressions, I show that when Mexico’s democratization decreased the probability of government coordination—the same party governing a municipality at every level of government—drug traffickers were more likely to violate the long-standing informal prohibition on selling cocaine within the country. It was this decrease in government coordination that would set the conditions for a violent war between drug cartels to erupt in the mid-2000s.

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  • Viridiana Rios, 2015. "How Government Coordination Controlled Organized Crime," Journal of Conflict Resolution, Peace Science Society (International), vol. 59(8), pages 1433-1454, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:jocore:v:59:y:2015:i:8:p:1433-1454
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    1. Orraca Romano, Pedro Paulo, 2016. "Essays on development and labour economics for Mexico," Economics PhD Theses 0816, Department of Economics, University of Sussex Business School.

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