Consequences of States of Emergency

(Project with Livia Schubiger, ETH-Z)

This project focuses on the often indiscriminate use of States of Emergency, which imply a suspension of civil rights and other restrictions, in Latin America. It leverages the fact that in countries like Peru, most states of emergency are not declared at the national level but rather at the province or district level to examine how the declaration of states of emergency affects gender-based violence and attitudes toward democracy and institutions.

Stage: Currently finishing a data set on the states of emergency declarared between 2020 and 2025, scraping data from Google search results and El Peruano (official state newspaper in Peru, that publishes law decrees), and using fuzzy mathching to get the location code.