Rodon i Casarramona, Antoni2025-01-142025-01-142024Rodon T. The scars of violence and repression on founding elections: evidence from Spain. Conflict Management and Peace Science. 2024 Jan;41(1):47-71. DOI: 10.1177/073889422211408720738-8942http://hdl.handle.net/10230/69111Includes supplementary materials for the online appendix.Do violence during a civil war and its aftermath leave a mark on political behaviour? In this article I study how violence perpetrated by the left and repression by the right during and after the Spanish Civil War shaped vote choice and turnout in 1977, in the first legislative election after a 40 year dictatorship. I argue that the effect of repression travels over time when actions are perpetrated by clearly identifiable antagonistic actors. By using a dataset that captures the intensity and the type of violence, results indicate that repression perpetrated by the Francoist dictatorship during and after the conflict had a positive and significant effect on left-wing support in 1977. Results are consistent across different indicators, such as religious violence, distance to mass graves or sanctions to teachers, confirming that violence triggered greater support for the political left. In contrast, results show no relationship between repression and turnout.application/pdfengRodon T. The scars of violence and repression on founding elections: evidence from Spain. Conflict Management and Peace Science. 2024;41(1):47-71. Copyright © The Author(s) 2022. DOI: 10.1177/07388942221140872info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/07388942221140872Civil warElectoral behaviourLong-term effectsRepressionSpaininfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess