Peer-Reviewed Articles
Nieto-Matiz, Camilo. 2025. “The Violent Path to Power: Violence Against Social Activism and the Rise of Criminal Politicians.” Journal of Politics in Latin America. DOI
Nieto-Matiz, Camilo. Forthcoming. “State Violence and the Political Consequences of Property Rights: Evidence from Colombia.” Studies in Comparative International Development. DOI
Campos, Juan Felipe, Camilo Nieto-Matiz, and Luis Schenoni. 2025. “Spraying Conflict: Aerial Drug Eradication and Armed Violence in Colombia.” British Journal of Political Science.
Arce, Moisés, and Camilo Nieto-Matiz. 2024. “Mining and Violence in Latin America: The State’s Coercive Responses to Anti-Mining Resistance.” World Development 173(1). DOI
Nieto-Matiz, Camilo, and Natán Skigin. 2023. “Why Programmatic Parties Reduce Criminal Violence: Theory and Evidence from Brazil.” Research & Politics 10(1). DOI
Nieto-Matiz, Camilo. 2023. “When the State Becomes Complicit: Mayors, Criminal Actors, and the Deliberate Weakening of the Local State in Colombia.” Comparative Political Studies 56(9): 1295–1327. DOI
Trejo, Guillermo, and Camilo Nieto-Matiz. 2023. “Containing Large-Scale Criminal Violence through Internationalized Prosecution: How the Collaboration between the CICIG and Guatemala’s Law Enforcement Contributed to a Sustained Reduction in the Murder Rate.” Comparative Political Studies 56(9): 1328–1364. DOI\
Nieto-Matiz, Camilo. 2023. “Land and State Capacity during Civil Wars: How Land-Based Coalitions Undermine Property Taxation in Colombia.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 67(4): 701–727. DOI
Nieto-Matiz, Camilo, and Luis Schenoni. 2020. “Backing Despots? Foreign Aid and the Survival of Autocratic Regimes.” Democracy and Security 16(1): 36-58. DOI
Nieto-Matiz, Camilo. 2019. “Democracy in the Countryside: The Rural Sources of Violence against Voters in Colombia.” Journal of Peace Research 56(2): 264-278. DOI
Working Papers
Nieto-Matiz, Camilo. “Voting for Criminal Politicians: Experimental Evidence from Colombia.” In Progress.
Nieto-Matiz, Camilo, and Zaraí Toledo. “To Mine or Not to Mine: Understanding the Drivers of Tolerance or Opposition to Mining in the Andes.” In Progress.
Book Chapters
Nieto-Matiz, Camilo. 2012. “El encuentro entre políticos y paramilitares: configuración regional, arreglos institucionales y disputas por el poder político en Meta y Casanare.” In Conflicto y Territorio en el Oriente Colombiano, ed. Fernán González. Bogotá: Odecofi-Cinep.