Assoc ProfessorLucia Tiscornia

I am currently involved in three interrelated lines of research. I explore the determinants of police violence from a variety of angles: public opinion, organizational structure, and factors pertaining to political transitions. I am also interested in understanding the behavior of organized criminal groups, and the conditions for organized criminal violence. Within this line of research, I focus on the role of the security apparatus in increasing or decreasing violent criminal responses, as well as other criminal behavior such as market capture. I am also interested in issues of conceptualization, measurement, and mixed methods research design. I was a Research Fellow for the Varieties of Democracy Project (V-Dem), one of the most extensive data gathering exercises on the features of democracy. In my own research, I combine qualitative and quantitative methods, including quasi-experimental and experimental designs, as well as interviews and methods of process-tracing.