RT Book
T1 Authoritarian police in democracy: contested security in Latin America
T2 Cambridge studies in comparative politics
A1 González, Yanilda
LA English
PP Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY, USA Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia New Delhi, India Singapore
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1739005414
AB In countries around the world, from the United States to the Philippines to Chile, police forces are at the center of social unrest and debates about democracy and rule of law. This book examines the persistence of authoritarian policing in Latin America to explain why police violence and malfeasance remain pervasive decades after democratization. It also examines the conditions under which reform can occur. Drawing on rich comparative analysis and evidence from Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia, the book opens up the 'black box' of police bureaucracies to show how police forces exert power and cultivate relationships with politicians, as well as how social inequality impedes change. González shows that authoritarian policing persists not in spite of democracy but in part because of democratic processes and public demand. When societal preferences over the distribution of security and coercion are fragmented along existing social cleavages, politicians possess few incentives to enact reform.
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Oct 2020)
CN 363.2098
SN 9781108907330
K1 Police : Latin America
K1 Internal Security : Latin America
K1 Violent Crime : Latin America
K1 Democracy : Latin America
K1 Police misconduct : Latin America
K1 Police ; Latin America
K1 Internal security ; Latin America
K1 Violent crime ; Latin America
K1 Democracy ; Latin America
K1 Police misconduct ; Latin America
K1 Latin America ; Politics and government
K1 Latin America : Politics and government
K1 Lateinamerika : Innere Sicherheit : Demokratie : Polizei : Gewalttätigkeit : Amtspflichtverletzung
K1 eBook-Cambridge-Gesamt-EBA-2024
DO 10.1017/9781108907330