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Murder and Politics in Mexico - Political Killings in the Partido de la Revolucion Democratica and its Consequences (Paperback, 2011 ed.)
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Murder and Politics in Mexico - Political Killings in the Partido de la Revolucion Democratica and its Consequences (Paperback, 2011 ed.)
Series: Studies of Organized Crime, 10
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Murder and Politics in Mexico studies the causes of political
killings in Mexico's liberalization-democratization within the
larger context of political repression. Mexico's democratization
process has entailed a little known but highly significant cost of
human lives in pre- and post-election violence. The majority of
these crimes remain in a state of impunity: in other words, no
person had been charged with the crime and/or no investigation of
it had occurred. This has several consequences for Mexican
politics: when the level of violence is extreme and when political
killings that are systematic and invasive are involved, this could
indicate a real fracture in the democratic system. This book
analyzes several dimensions regarding impunity and political crime,
more specifically, the political killings of members of the PRD in
the post-1988 period in Mexico. The main argument proposed in this
book is that impunity for political killings is a structured system
requiring one central precondition, namely the failure of the legal
system to function as a system of restraint for killings. Dr
Schatz's research finds that political assassinations are indeed
rational, targeted actions but they do not occur within an
institutional vacuum. Political assassinations are calculated
strategies of action aimed at eliminating political rivals. As a
form of interpersonal violence, political assassination involves
direct or implied authorization from political leaders, the
availability of assassins for hire and the willingness of some
political leaders to utilize them against political opponents, and
violent interactions between political parties combined with
judicial system ineffectiveness. A corrupt legal system facilitates
the use of political assassination and explains the persistence of
impunity for political murder over time. To reduce political
violence in the transition to electoral democracy, specific
institutional conditions, namely a structured system of impunity
for murder, must be overcome.
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