Authoritarian Repression and the Creation of Democratic Norms

• In Event: Autocratic Legacies

Brief Overview

Democratic survival depends on social norms that enforce democratic behavior. Instrumenting distance to Spanish border, we study whether Portugal municipalities affected by repression engage less in authoritarian behavior nowadays.

Authors

• Vicente Valentim, University of Oxford

• António Valentim, Humboldt University of Berlin

• Filipa Raimundo, ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa