Research

Publications

• Villamil, Francisco (2022) Violence, co-optation, and postwar voting in Guatemala. Conflict Management and Peace Science, first published February 2022. [Preprint] [Appendix] [Replication (Github)]

• Villamil, Francisco and Laia Balcells (2021) Do TJ policies cause backlash? Evidence from street name changes in Spain. Research & Politics, 8(4). [PDF] [Appendix] [Replication (Github)]

• Villamil, Francisco (2021) Mobilizing memories: The social conditions of the long-term impact of victimization. Journal of Peace Research, 58(3): 399-416. [Preprint] [Appendix] [Replication files]

• Balcells, Laia and Francisco Villamil (2020) The double logic of internal purges: New evidence from Francoist Spain. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 26(3): 260-278. [Preprint] [Appendix] [Replication files]

• Cederman, Lars-Erik, Simon Hug, Livia Schubiger, and Francisco Villamil (2020) Civilian victimization and ethnic civil war. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 64(7-8): 1199-1225. [Preprint] [Replication files]

Dissertation / book project

Mobilizing memories: The long-term consequences of wartime violence against civilians.

February 2020, ETH Zurich. (More info)

Working papers

• Measurement validity in historical conflict data: Comparing datasets from Spain. [PDF]
• Rally ‘round the barrack: Far-right support and the military (with Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte and José Rama).

Work in progress

• Wartime collective targeting and postwar ethnic mobilization.
• Mobilization capacity and local selective violence (with Paloma Aguilar, Fernando de la Cuesta, and Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca).
• Understanding the triggers of political polarization (with Laia Balcells and Juan F. Tellez).
• Authoritarian repression and local collective action in Spain (with Laia Balcells).