Network Models

Voting for Law and Order: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Mexico

In this article, we examine the demand-and-supply dynamic of security policies. We argue there are two informational shortcuts through which voters process policy alternatives and choose among them: (1) their own personal experiences with violence …

Path Weighted Regression: A Statistical Model to Describe Dependency in Large Networks

Dependency in large networks is among the most intractable challenges in social network analysis, as current approaches are computationally infeasible in networks with thousands of nodes. In this article, we introduce path-weighted regression (PWR), …

Voting for Violence: Crime and the Election of Law-and-order Politicians in Brazil.

This paper discusses how criminal violence affects voting behavior and citizens' demand for security policies on unequal and violent societies. I propose a theory considering both the micro-level dynamics behind preferences for security policies, and …