State Repression, Memory, and Social Capital (by Capozza, Giugovaz, and Musillo)
Abstract
We investigate the impact of law enforcement via police brutality in protest crackdowns on social capital, political participation, and individual attitudes in a mature democracy. Our study focuses on the protests that occurred during the G8 summit in Genova, Italy, in the summer of 2001. To address this research question, we examine how exposure to police violence in Genova influences changes in social capital, political participation, and individual attitudes. We employ digitized data on the geographical locations and activities of the associations involved in the protest, along with administrative and electoral data, large-scale surveys, and other relevant data sources.
About this workshop
The Public Governance workshop is an online seminar series focused on state of art research in political economy that uses non-traditional data and data-intensive methods.
The workshop gives a platform for the research on the role of governance in designing and developing better policies. Key features are the political environment, the role of the media, the engagement of stakeholders such as civil society and firms, the market structure and level of competition, and the independence of public regulators, among others. Particular emphasis is placed on research with NLP methods due to the proven usefulness of transforming text into data for further econometric analysis.
Periodicity: Mondays from 17h30 to 19h.