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Violence, coercion, and state-making in twentieth-century Mexico : the other half of the centaur / / edited by Wil G. Pansters |
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Stanford, California, : Stanford University Press, 2012 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (402 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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PanstersW. G (Wil G.), of compilation |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Violence - Political aspects - Mexico - History - 20th century |
Mexico Politics and government 20th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface and Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; About the Contributors; Part I: Introduction; 1. Zones of State-Making: Violence, Coercion, and Hegemony in Twentieth-CenturyMexico - Wil G. Pansters; Part II: Coercive Pillars of State-Making: Borders, Policing, and Army; 2. States, Borders, and Violence: Lessons from the U.S.- Mexican Experience - David A. Shirk; 3. Policing and Regime Transition: From Postauthoritarianism to Populism to Neoliberalism - Diane E. Davis |
4. Who Killed Crispín Aguilar? Violence and Order in the Postrevolutionary Countryside - Paul GillinghamPart III: In the Gray Zone: Drugs, Violence, Globalization, and the State; 5. Narco-Violence and the State in Modern Mexico - Alan Knight; 6. States of Violence: State-Crime Relations in Mexico - Mónica Serrano; 7. Policing New Illegalities: Piracy, Raids, and Madrinas - José Carlos G. Aguiar; Part IV: State-Making and Violence in Society: Corporatism, Clientelism, and Indigenous Communities |
8. The Rise of Gangsterism and Charrismo: Labor Violence and the Postrevolutionary Mexican State - Marcos Aguila and Jeffrey Bortz9. Political Practice, Everyday Political Violence, and Electoral Processes During the Neoliberal Period in Mexico - Kathy Powell; 10. Violence and Reconstitution in Mexican Indigenous Communities - John Gledhill; Part V: Comparative Conclusions; 11. New Violence, Insecurity, and the State: Comparative Reflections on Latin America and Mexico - Kees |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Mexico is currently undergoing a crisis of violence and insecurity that poses serious threats to democratic transition and rule of law. This is the first book to put these developments in the context of post-revolutionary state-making in Mexico and to show that violence in Mexico is not the result of state failure, but of state-making. While most accounts of politics and the state in recent decades have emphasized processes of transition, institutional conflict resolution, and neo-liberal reform, this volume lays out the increasingly important role of violence and coercion by a range of s |
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