Economic governance and homicide
Some theory and empirics, 1990-2017
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3917335 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Indra De Soysa (0000-0003-2751-4223, Department of Sociology & Political Science, Norwegian University of Science & Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1004-1017 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Peace Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3433 • E-ISSN: 1460-3578 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022343320962566 |
| OpenAlex | W3106880858 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 45 |
This article posits that free-market institutions and practices reduce economic distortions that provide rents for underground organizations, which ultimately form criminogenic environments. Rents from market distortions provide 'lootable income' that feeds 'criminal organizations', which rely on violence for enforcement of contracts. Using an index of economic freedom, this study contrasts several relevant measures of political freedoms, political discrimination of individuals and groups, and measures of equal access to state 'goods' as proxies for political legitimacy and discrimination on the homicide rate. Fixed effects regression results suggest robustly that economic freedom, not political legitimacy, inclusive politics, or state capacity, reduces the homicide rate, results that are stubbornly significant and substantively large. The basic results are robust to a barrage of model specifications, different sample sizes, and estimation strategies, including instrumental variables analysis. The evidence suggests that unusually high homicide rates might be based in quotidian organizational activities related to 'illegal' markets rather than to political grievance-based explanations relating to relative deprivation and political legitimacy. Countries wishing to encourage growth-promoting policies need not fear higher levels of interpersonal violence based on various arguments linking free-market policies to societal disarray
Corporate governance · Economic freedom · Economic rent · Economics · Grievance · Homicide · Legitimacy · Market economy · Microeconomics · Poison control · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Suicide prevention · Corruption and Economic Development · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Finance · Law
The hole in the doughnut
Economic freedom and suicide rates
Group Grievances, Opportunity, and the Onset of Civil War
Does the crime rate respond symmetrically or asymmetrically to changes in governance quality and macroeconomic variables? The application of linear and non-linear ARDL
Capitalism and Femicide
Economic freedom vs. egalitarianism
Immigration and the “Welfare Magnet” hypothesis
Does the Free Market Kill Us? A Cross-National Study on Labor Market Freedom, Culture, and Lethal Violence
Do societies with freer markets really become less homicidal over time? New evidence from 131 developed and developing societies, 2000–2021
No causal evidence that free markets and globalization reduce homicide
Government size, economic freedom, and homicide rates
Vulnerable employment and homicide rates
Market orientation and national homicide rates
Democracy, Egalitarianism and the Homicide Rate
Free market capitalism and societal inequities
Homicide and State History
Enhanced Routines for Instrumental Variables/Generalized Method of Moments Estimation and Testing
Problems with Instrumental Variables Estimation when the Correlation between the Instruments and the Endogenous Explanatory Variable is Weak
On the Number and Size of Nations
Cross-National Predictors of Crime
The V-Dem Measurement Model
Robust Standard Errors for Panel Regressions with Cross-Sectional Dependence
Large Sample Properties of Generalized Method of Moments Estimators
Why Nations Fail
The Spirit Level
Principles of Criminology
People, Power and Profits
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Capitalism, Democracy and the Prevention of War and Poverty
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (Unodc). Global Study on Homicide
Market‐oriented institutions and policies and economic growth
Mostly Harmless Econometrics
Inequality, Grievances, and Civil War
What causes violent crime
Greed and grievance in civil war
Beyond greed and grievance
Let's Put Garbage-Can Regressions and Garbage-Can Probits Where They Belong
Cross-Comparative Perspectives on Global Homicide Trends
Illegal markets and the social costs of rent-seeking
Democracy and Crime
The Sicilian Mafia
How Civil Wars Help Explain Organized Crime—and How They Do Not
Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy
Crime
Government Failures in Development
The sources of social violence in Latin America
Organized violence, 1989-2018 and peace agreements
Inequality and Violent Crime
The perils of policy by p-value
The Globalization of Liberalization
Social Disadvantage and Crime
Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |