Juan Albarracín
@juanalbarracind.bsky.social
Assistant professor of political science at UIC. Research on political and criminal violence, criminal governance, transitional justice, parties and elections, Brazilian and Colombian politics. Opiniones personales. http://albarracin.co
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Article by @juanalbarracind.bsky.social, Rodrigo Moura Karolczak, & Jonas Wolff examines assassinations of social activists in the Global South: In the Brazilian Amazon (plus case study of Altamira), killings are linked to industrial deforestation & criminal-political networks, not drug trafficking.
September 10, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Article by @juanalbarracind.bsky.social, Rodrigo Moura Karolczak, & Jonas Wolff examines assassinations of social activists in the Global South: In the Brazilian Amazon (plus case study of Altamira), killings are linked to industrial deforestation & criminal-political networks, not drug trafficking.
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September 3, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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Electoral incentives to militarize, especially in contexts of high crime, can override ideological commitments to human rights. Electing progressive politicians is not enough to reform law enforcement.
September 3, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Electoral incentives to militarize, especially in contexts of high crime, can override ideological commitments to human rights. Electing progressive politicians is not enough to reform law enforcement.
Even though leftist parties express a commitment to human rights, left-leaning mayors double down on militarized policing to display competency in public security and compete in a policy space traditionally occupied by the right: law and order.
September 3, 2024 at 7:28 PM
Even though leftist parties express a commitment to human rights, left-leaning mayors double down on militarized policing to display competency in public security and compete in a policy space traditionally occupied by the right: law and order.
We studied municipal police forces (guardas municipais) in Brazil and find that leftist mayors tend to militarize them more than non-leftists mayors.
September 3, 2024 at 7:26 PM
We studied municipal police forces (guardas municipais) in Brazil and find that leftist mayors tend to militarize them more than non-leftists mayors.
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Postdoctoral Research Associate - Bridge to Faculty in Political Science
Position SummaryThe Department of Political Science in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) i...
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December 18, 2023 at 9:09 PM
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