| Description |
1 online resource (386 pages) |
| Contents |
Table of Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface and Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; About the Contributors; PART ONE Introduction; PART TWO Coercive Pillars of State- Making: Borders, Policing, and Army; PART THREE In the Gray Zone: Drugs, Violence, Globalization, and the State; PART FOURState- Making and Violence in Society: Corporatism, Clientelism, and Indigenous Communities; PART FIVE Comparative Conclusions |
| Summary |
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 state |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Violence -- Political aspects -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century
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Politics and government
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Violence -- Political aspects
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| SUBJECT |
Mexico -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084612
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| Subject |
Mexico
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780804784474 |
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0804784477 |
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