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Pedro C. Vicente

Researcher at Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Publications -  68
Citations -  3084

Pedro C. Vicente is an academic researcher from Universidade Nova de Lisboa. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Cape verde. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 68 publications receiving 2225 citations. Previous affiliations of Pedro C. Vicente include Trinity College, Dublin & University of Oxford.

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COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy in low- and middle-income countries.

Julio S. Solís Arce, +80 more
- 16 Jul 2021 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed COVID-19 vaccine acceptance across 15 survey samples covering 10 low and middle-income countries (LMICs) in Asia, Africa and South America, Russia (an upper-middle-income country) and the United States, including a total of 44,260 individuals.
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Does Oil Corrupt? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in West Africa ∗

TL;DR: In this article, the role of natural resources in determining corruption is explored in the context of oil discovery announcements in Sao Tome and Principe (1997-1999) and Cape Verde (1999-2005).
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Votes and Violence: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Nigeria

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the Nigerian general election of 2007, which is to date the largest election held in Africa and one seriously marred by violence, and find direct effects on violence outcomes from exploring both subject-surveying and independent data sources.
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Violence, bribery, and fraud: the political economy of elections in Sub-Saharan Africa

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a model of electoral competition where, although some voters oppose violence, it is effective in intimidating swing voters, and show that in equilibrium a weak challenger will use violence, which corresponds to a terrorism strategy, and a nationally weak incumbent will use repression.
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Is Vote Buying Effective? Evidence from a Field Experiment in West Africa

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a randomized experiment during the presidential elections of July 2006 in Sao Tome and Principe and found that voters perceived a significant effect of the campaign on perceptions of vote buying, which constitutes the exogenous variation used to identify effects on voting behavior.