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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
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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  • 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.