Security Personnel, Social Embeddedness, and Insurgent Threats: Strategic Staffing in Authoritarian Argentina (1976-1983)

• In Event: Political Control, Fragmentation, and Challenges to State Authority

Brief Overview

Autocrats facing covert insurgencies may deploy security agents in their home regions to exploit local knowledge. Evidence from Argentina (1976–83) shows insurgent threats increased such embedded staffing to improve repression effectiveness.

Author

• Haley Allen DeMarco, Yale University