The Impact of Domestic Military Deployments on Citizen’s Perceptions of Crime, Favorability Toward More Military Deployments, and Support for Authoritarian Rule: Evidence from Brazil

• In Event: Political Attitudes and Behavior in Latin America

Brief Overview

We use a Regression Discontinuity in Time Design to estimate the effect of a massive military anti-crime operation on Brazilian citizens’ perceptions of crime, favorability towards more military deployments, and support for an authoritarian rule.

Authors

• Igor Daniel Palhares Acacio, University of California-Riverside

• Miguel Carreras, University of California-Riverside

• Giancarlo Visconti, Purdue University