Yanilda María González

Authoritarian Police in Democracy

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Produktbeschreibung

Explains the persistence of violent, unaccountable policing in democratic contexts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 721g
• ISBN-13: 9781108830393
• ISBN-10: 1108830390
• Artikelnr.: 59637573

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.