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Authoritarian Police in Democracy - Contested Security in Latin America (Hardcover)
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Authoritarian Police in Democracy - Contested Security in Latin America (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
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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. Gonzalez 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.
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