Yanilda Maria Gonzalez (Massachusetts Harvard University)

Authoritarian Police in Democracy

Contested Security in Latin America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explains the persistence of violent, unaccountable policing in Latin American democracies. It is for scholars, students, educators, policy makers, journalists, advocates, and ordinary citizens who are concerned with the relationship between police and communities, human rights, democracy, and police reform.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 151mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 564g
• ISBN-13: 9781108820745
• ISBN-10: 1108820743
• Artikelnr.: 59993647

Autorenporträt

Yanilda María González is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. She holds a Ph.D. in Politics and Social Policy from Princeton University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Police: authoritarian enclaves in democratic states; 2. Ordinary
democratic politics and the challenge of police reform; Part I.
Persistence: 3. Institutional persistence in São Paulo state: authoritarian
policing by democratic demand; 4. The endurance of the 'damned police' in
Buenos Aires province; 5. Policing in hard times: drug war, institutional
decay, and the persistence of authoritarian coercion in Colombia; Part II.
Reform: 6. 'New police', same as the old police: barriers to reform in São
Paulo state; 7. The social and political drivers of reform in Buenos Aires
province and Colombia; 8. Conclusion: inequality and the dissonance of
policing and democracy.