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Drug War Pathologies - Embedded Corporatism and U.S. Drug Enforcement in the Americas (Paperback)
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Drug War Pathologies - Embedded Corporatism and U.S. Drug Enforcement in the Americas (Paperback)
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In this book, Horace Bartilow develops a theory of embedded
corporatism to explain the U.S. government's war on drugs. Stemming
from President Richard Nixon's 1971 call for an international
approach to this "war," U.S. drug enforcement policy has persisted
with few changes to the present day, despite widespread criticism
of its effectiveness and of its unequal effects on hundreds of
millions of people across the Americas. While researchers
consistently emphasize the role of race in U.S. drug enforcement,
Bartilow's empirical analysis highlights the class dimension of the
drug war and the immense power that American corporations wield
within the regime. Drawing on qualitative case study methods,
declassified U.S. government documents, and advanced econometric
estimators that analyze cross-national data, Bartilow demonstrates
how corporate power is projected and embedded-in lobbying,
financing of federal elections, funding of policy think tanks, and
interlocks with the federal government and the military. Embedded
corporatism, he explains, creates the conditions by which interests
of state and nonstate members of the regime converge to promote
capital accumulation. The subsequent human rights repression,
illiberal democratic governments, antiworker practices, and
widening income inequality throughout the Americas, Bartilow
argues, are the pathological policy outcomes of embedded
corporatism in drug enforcement.
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