Drug cartels in Mexico have openly attacked mayors and local party candidates, as part of their strategy to develop subnational criminal governance regimes. Political vulnerability, afforded by intergovernmental partisan conflict, and political opportunities, opened by subnational elections cycles, are causally related to the probability of attacks against mayors and party candidates. These attacks have subsequently affected citizen participation and engagement with electoral politics.

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