Seguridad Democrática, presencia de la Policía y conflicto en Colombia

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ID6166765
AuthorsDarwin Cortés (0000-0003-2280-9452), Juan F Vargas (0000-0001-8090-8091), Renata Rosa Franco (0000-0001-7654-0239), Laura Hincapié, Franco María del Rosario
Year2012
Issue69
Pages11-32
Publication date2012-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevista Desarrollo y Sociedad (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0120-3584 • E-ISSN: 1900-7760
PublisherUniversidad de los Andes (PUBLISHER • VE)
DOI10.13043/dys.69.1
OpenAlexW1549187876
LanguageES
Citations received6

This article assesses one of the fundamental components of the most iconic policy of the government of Álvaro Uribe: the Democratic Security. In particular we assess the impact on the intensity of the armed conflict, of police deployment and reinforces in municipalities with little or no police presence before August 2002. We use the difference in differences estimator to compare the change in the dynamics of the armed conflict after the allocation of new police forces in the receiving municipalities, relative to the simultaneous change in municipalities that did not receive police. Results are robust to using a matched sample and suggest that guerrilla attacks increase with police deployments and first increase and then decrease with police reinforcements. These results are consistent with a simple model that describes the fight for the control of valuable territories in the context of an internal armed conflict

Art · Humanities · Political science · Conflict, Peace, and Violence in Colombia · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · History and Politics in Latin America

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