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Campaigning on Public Security in Latin America: Obstacles to Success

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Randy Sunwin Uang
Randy Sunwin Uang*
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Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco. randy.uang@ucsf.edu
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Abstract

Crime and violence have made public security a major concern to voters throughout Latin America. Existing research predicts that such widespread concerns should make public security a consistently successful issue in presidential election campaigns. Yet recent empirical reality in Latin America has been more varied. This study argues that success on public security is not so automatic. Human rights concerns combine with low trust in security forces to make success on security contingent on the correct conditions. Two key conditions affect the use of the issue: the degree to which security threats are organized and the degree to which recent repression has occurred. Then, winning votes depends on two further conditions: having a civilian background and a campaign that balances security with other issues. Together, these factors explain the dramatic variation in success, and suggest a key change from Latin America's past.

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Latin American Politics and Society , Volume 55 , Issue 2 , Summer 2013 , pp. 26 - 51
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