http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/ucm_ssha_polisci_oapdeposits/rss Recent eScholarship items from Department of Political Science - Open Access Policy Deposits Thu, 5 Nov 2026 17:57:04 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5s9713dz Abstract Since the early 2000s, Mexican cartels have increasingly threatened, attacked, and assassinated government officials. Existing explanations emphasize electoral incentives, political vulnerability, and government crackdowns. We propose an additional and largely overlooked explanation: transformations within Mexico’s criminal underworld itself. As large cartels fragmented, more localized criminal organizations emerged, multiplying both symmetric and asymmetric inter-cartel conflicts. We argue that cartel capacity and inter-cartel conflict interact to produce distinct incentives for the targeting government officials. To test these claims, we combine original data on assassinated politicians in Mexico between 2000 and 2018 with existing datasets on attacks against political actors and municipal-level cartel presence. We find that high-capacity cartels and inter-cartel conflicts are the strongest predictors of violence against politicians. While early violence is driven primarily... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5s9713dz Wed, 4 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Alcocer, Marco Erickson, Megan https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4tm8b0qh The Effect of Angler Education Materials on the Practice of Selective Harvest: Evidence From a Survey Experiment https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4tm8b0qh Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Monroe, Nathan W Spriggs, James F Allen, Micheal S Sass, Greg G https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9pw70288 Abstract How does the fear of anarchy affect telephone survey behaviors? A survey experiment administered to a sample of Mogadishu residents—validated with a natural experiment—is used to assess this question. Randomly assigned reminders of anarchic violence conditioned differential effects on survey participation depending on subjects’ background level of security and welfare. Vulnerable subjects were more likely than non-vulnerable subjects to refuse to provide sensitive survey information after reminders of anarchy. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9pw70288 Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Denny, Elaine K https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0644-7642 Driscoll, Jesse