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Violence, Coercion, and State-Making in Twentieth-Century Mexico : the Other Half of the Centaur.

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 o...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pansters, Wil G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (386 pages)
ISBN:9780804784474
0804784477