id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 08612n51n19 Javier Osorio Hobbes on Drugs: Understanding Drug Violence in Mexico 1904 .txt text/plain 341 15 30 Based on a game theoretic model, the central argument indicates that democratization erodes the peaceful configurations between the state and criminal organizations and motivates authorities to fight crime, thus triggering a wave of violence between the state and organized criminals and among rival criminal groups fighting to control strategic territories. The statistical assessment relies on quasi-experimental identification strategies and time-series analysis to overcome problems of causal inference associated with analyzing the distinct ‒yet overlapping- processes of violence between government authorities and organized criminals and among rival criminal groups. cache/08612n51n19.txt txt/08612n51n19.txt