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Drug War Pathologies - Embedded Corporatism and U.S. Drug Enforcement in the Americas (Paperback) Loot Price: R972
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Drug War Pathologies - Embedded Corporatism and U.S. Drug Enforcement in the Americas (Paperback): Horace A. Bartilow

Drug War Pathologies - Embedded Corporatism and U.S. Drug Enforcement in the Americas (Paperback)

Horace A. Bartilow

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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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Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: August 2019
Authors: Horace A. Bartilow
Dimensions: 235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-5255-9
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > Diplomacy
Books > History > American history > General
LSN: 1-4696-5255-2
Barcode: 9781469652559

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