Violence, coercion, and state-making in twentieth-century Mexico : the other half of the centaur / edited by Wil G. Pansters.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pansters, W. G. (Wil G.), editor of compilation.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--Political aspects--Mexico--History--20th century.

Violence.

Mexico--Politics and government--20th century.

Mexico.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (402 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

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 s

Contents:

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 Koonings; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804784474

0804784477

OCLC:

784885923