2,563 research outputs found
Replication Data for: "Bottom-Up Accountability and Public Service Provision: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Brazil"
No full textThis repository contains data and documented R code for "Bottom-Up Accountability and Public Service Provision: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Brazil", authored by Danilo Freire, Manoel Galdino, and Umberto Mignozzetti
Evaluating the Effect of Homicide Prevention Strategies in São Paulo, Brazil: A Synthetic Control Approach
No full textAlthough Brazil remains severely affected by civil violence, the state of São Paulo has made significant inroads into fighting criminality. In the last decade, São Paulo has witnessed a 70% decline in homicide rates, a result that policy-makers attribute to a series of crime-reducing measures implemented by the state government. While recent academic studies seem to confirm this downward trend, no estimation of the total impact of state policies on homicide rates currently exists. The present article fills this gap by employing the Synthetic Control Method to compare these measures against an artificial São Paulo. The results indicate a large drop in homicide rates in actual São Paulo when contrasted with the synthetic counterfactual, with about 20,000 lives saved during the period. The theoretical usefulness of the Synthetic Control Method for public policy analysis, the role of the Primeiro Comando da Capital as a causal mediator, and the practical implications of the security measures taken by the São Paulo state government are also discussed.
Keywords: Brazil, homicides, PCC, synthetic control, urban violence
Replication files: https://github.com/danilofreire/homicides-sp-synth
Citation: Freire, Danilo. 2016. “Evaluating the Effect of Homicide Prevention Strategies in São Paulo, Brazil: A Synthetic Control Approach.” http://osf.io/8tmhe/
@misc{freire2016evaluating,
title={{Evaluating the Effect of Homicide Prevention Strategies in São Paulo, Brazil: A Synthetic Control Approach}},
howpublished = {\url{https://osf.io/vxe56}},
publisher={Open Science Framework},
author={Freire, Danilo},
year={2016},
month={Dec}
Freire Mignozzetti Skarbek - "Latin American elites favour polycentric governance in climate change agreements"
No full textThis repository contains the data and R code required to replicate the numerical analyses included in "Latin American elites favour polycentric governance in climate change agreements" by Danilo Freire, Umberto Mignozzetti and David Skarbek (2019). The appendix file includes all R commands used in the article
Replication Data for "Between Ballot Boxes and Guns: The Competitiveness of the Executive Branch and Civil Wars, 1976–2000". Revista Española de Ciencia Política, 36:33–60.
No full textAbstract:
Although recent research has yielded some determining elements to civil war, the influence of political factors on internal conflicts remains disputed. This article presents a critical review of the most widely used indices of democracy in civil war studies, and suggests that the competitiveness of the executive power can be a useful measure for quantitative conflict research. The paper also analyses, by means of statistical regression, the relationship between the competitiveness in the executive recruitment and civil war incidence from 1976 to 2000. The findings indicate that both single-candidate and multi-party elections reduce the incidence of civil war. Furthermore, the results lend support to the hypotheses put forward by recent literature that ethnic fractionalisation, mountainous terrain, large population and centralised political systems significantly heighten the risk of incidence of civil war, while high GDP per capita and economic growth decrease the likelihood of internal conflicts.
Article: http://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/recp/article/view/37638/2115
Replication Data for "Between Ballot Boxes and Guns: The Competitiveness of the Executive Branch and Civil Wars, 1976–2000". Revista Española de Ciencia Política, 36:33–60.
No full textAbstract:
Although recent research has yielded some determining elements to civil war, the influence of political factors on internal conflicts remains disputed. This article presents a critical review of the most widely used indices of democracy in civil war studies, and suggests that the competitiveness of the executive power can be a useful measure for quantitative conflict research. The paper also analyses, by means of statistical regression, the relationship between the competitiveness in the executive recruitment and civil war incidence from 1976 to 2000. The findings indicate that both single-candidate and multi-party elections reduce the incidence of civil war. Furthermore, the results lend support to the hypotheses put forward by recent literature that ethnic fractionalisation, mountainous terrain, large population and centralised political systems significantly heighten the risk of incidence of civil war, while high GDP per capita and economic growth decrease the likelihood of internal conflicts.
Article: http://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/recp/article/view/37638/2115
Replication Data for: "Evaluating the Effect of Homicide Prevention Strategies in São Paulo, Brazil: A Synthetic Control Approach"
No full textAlthough Brazil remains severely affected by civil violence, the state of São Paulo has made significant inroads into fighting criminality. In the last decade, São Paulo has witnessed a 70% decline in homicide rates, a result that policy-makers attribute to a series of crime-reducing measures implemented by the state government. While recent academic studies seem to confirm this downward trend, no estimation of the total impact of state policies on homicide rates currently exists. The present article fills this gap by employing the synthetic control method to compare these measures against an artificial São Paulo. The results indicate a large drop in homicide rates in actual São Paulo when contrasted with the synthetic counterfactual, with about 20,000 lives saved during the period. The theoretical usefulness of the synthetic control method for public policy analysis, the role of the Primeiro Comando da Capital as a causal mediator, and the practical implications of the security measures taken by the São Paulo state government are also discussed
Encontro. Sustentabilidade na diversidade. Insurgencia Educacional na atualidade. Dom Milani, Danilo Dolci, Paulo Freire
No full textO volume trata de forma didática e teórica, os elementos fundamentais do pensamento de alguns teóricos: Dom Milani, Danilo Dolci e Paulo Freire. O pensamento dos teóricos faz parte da metodologia inclusiv
Replication Data for: "Vigilantism and Institutions: Understanding Attitudes toward Lynching in Brazil"
No full textWhy do people support extrajudicial violence? In two survey experiments with respondents in Brazil, we examine which characteristics of lynching scenarios garner greater support for lynching and whether providing different types of information about lynching reduces support for it. We find that people often do support community members to take vengeance. In particular, our analysis finds that people strongly support the use of extrajudicial violence by families of victims against men who sexually assault and murder women and children. We also find that criminal punishment and the threat of vendettas reduce support, but appeals to the human rights of victims have zero effect on support for lynchings. Unlike the U.S. experience with lynchings, race was not observed to play an important role in how respondents answered the survey
Paulo Freire e Danilo Dolci: connessioni metodologiche
No full textItIl contributo nasce dall'idea di far dialogare i due Autori su temi relativi all'educazione sociale e di comunità e sulle metodologie inclusive e partecipative per lo sviluppo della cittadinanza. Si tratta di questioni centrali nel dibattito pedagogico odierno che stiamo leggendo e riattraversando alla luce della condizione contemporanea abitata da nuovi soggetti e nuove marginalità sociali. L'educazione promossa da Paulo Freire e da Danilo Dolci si impegna, infatti, a restituire potere agli individui, capacità di scelta e di progettazione e a dare voce ai "senza voce": soggetti destinati a rimanere ai margini della società. L'opera trasformativa degli Autori si orienta verso la capacità di comprendere ed incrementare le risorse del territorio, saper analizzare le contraddizioni presenti nei vari contesti, capire ciò che blocca l'iniziativa e l'associazionismo, fino a cambiare i comportamenti e a sottrarsi alla passività. Ciò favorisce la realizzazione della democrazia utilizzando la potenzialità e la motivazione dei soggetti come forza trasformatrice, come impegno etico, come apertura a nuove ipotesi e a nuovi orizzonti, come ricchezza, potenzialità e fiducia nel futuro.EnThe contribution stems from the idea of a dialogue between the two authors about social and community education, and about inclusive and participatory techniques for the development of citizenship. These are key issues in the nowadays pedagogical debate we are currently reading and experiencing, which take into consideration the current situation where new individuals and new kinds of social marginalization exist. Paulo Freire and Danilo Dolci foster an educational method aimed to give power back to individuals, their ability to choose and plan, and voice to the "voiceless" ones, bound otherwise to remain on the fringe of society. The authors' changing work is oriented towards the ability to understand and increase the resources of this region, to analyse contradictions in the various contexts, to understand what are the main stumbling blocks of initiatives and association formation, in order to change people's attitude, and to avoid passiveness. All this encourages the implementation of democracy by using individuals' potentiality and motivation as a changing strength, as ethical commitment, as a willingness to be open to new hypotheses and horizons, such as wealth, potentiality and confidence in the future
Danilo Dolci e Paulo Freire: un intreccio intellettuale tra maieutica e dialogo per un’educazione problematizzante
No full textL’articolo presenta il profilo intellettuale di Danilo Dolci e vuole sottolinearne il suo importante ruolo e impegno educativo, purtroppo passato in secondo piano al grande pubblico rispetto alle sue opere di attivismo sociale e lotta politica. Dopo una breve ricostruzione biografica, l’articolo si concentra sull’approccio maieutico reciproco del metodo dolciano e la sua Bozza di manifesto Dal trasmettere al comunicare. Successivamente, la figura di Danilo Dolci viene intrecciata a quella di Paulo Freire, uno tra i più importanti pedagogisti e teorici dell’educazione al mondo, in un esercizio intellettuale da cui emergono numerose analogie, sia a livello biografico che di pensiero e modalità operative. L’analisi di Dolci in questo articolo e il suo accostamento a Freire mirano, infatti, a illuminare di nuova luce una specifica sfaccettatura della figura poliedrica di Danilo Dolci, ovvero il suo impegno educativo e maieutico per creare una società civile più attiva e responsabile che risulta, ancora oggi, di estrema attualità e interesse per tutti coloro che si occupano di educazion
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