Peace Research Institute Oslo

The security imperative: how crime conditions the electoral effects of inequality in Latin America

Crime and income inequality rank among the most important challenges in Latin America, but the authors know little about how they jointly shape election outcomes. The authors develop a formal model in which crime conditions the effect of inequality on voting behavior. At low leve...

Un-categorising ‘the migrant’ to interrogate the roles of migration in social mobility in four Asian cities

This article’s point of departure is that the categorisation of migrants and migration in research risks being overly rigid, leaving research participants feeling ‘boxed in’, while often both failing to accurately capture the realities of movement and stasis, and their significan...