Criminal enterprises and governance in Latin America and the Caribbean
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Criminal enterprises and governance in Latin America and the Caribbean
Cambridge University Press, 2018, c2017
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-279) and index
"First published 2017"--T.p. verso
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book examines security in three cities that suffer from chronic violence: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Medellin, Colombia; and Kingston, Jamaica. In each, democratic states contend with subnational armed groups that dominate territory and play important roles in politics even as they contribute to fear and insecurity. Through a nested three-city, six-neighborhood analysis of the role of criminal groups in governance, this research provides a deep understanding of the impact of crime on political experience. Neighborhoods controlled by different types of armed actors, operating in the same institutional context, build alliances with state officials and participate in political life through the structures created by these armed actors. The data demonstrates the effects criminal dominance can have on security, civil society, elections, and policymaking. Far from reflecting a breakdown of order, varying types of criminal groups generate different local lived political experiences.
Table of Contents
- Introduction. Conflict and governance patterns in Latin America and the Caribbean
- 1. Constellations of governance: theoretical approaches to micro-level armed regimes
- 2. Poverty, popular incorporation, and armed groups in Latin America and the Caribbean
- 3. The structure of micro-level armed regimes
- 4. Security systems in areas subject to micro-level armed regimes
- 5. Armed groups, civil society, and social mobilization
- 6. The impact of armed dominance on elections
- 7. Policy process amid armed organizations
- Conclusion. Things change (and they stay the same): understanding the politics of micro-level armed regimes
- Bibliography
- Index.
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