Contesting the Iron Fist - Advocacy Networks Police Violence in Democratic Argentina Chile

Informationen zum Autor Claudio Fuentes is the Academic Coordinator at the Latin American Faculty of Social Science (FLACSO-Chile). Klappentext This work analyzes the interactions and international connections of the "civil rights" and "pro-order" coalitions of state and societal actors in the two countries. The author demonstrates that in democratizing contexts, protecting citizens from police abuse and becomes part of a debate about how to deal with issues of public safety and social control and of perceived trade-offs between liberty and security. Zusammenfassung This work analyses the interactions and international connections of the 'civil rights' and 'pro-order' coalitions of state and societal actors in Argentina and Chile. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction.  1. Guarding the Guardians.  2. Chile: The Denial of Police Violence  3. Explaining an "Unexpected" Legal Reform in Chile  4. Argentina: Strong Advocacy Groups, Fluctuating Influence  5. Dealing with a Corporate Police Force in Argentina.  6. Contesting the Iron Fist.  Appendix One: Chile: Government's Reactions Toward International and Local Reports.  Appendix Two: Testing Social Groups' Responsiveness.  Appendix Three: Argentina: Selected Cases of Corruption.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Claudio Fuentes, Claudio (Flacso-Chile) Fuentes, Fuentes Claudio
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 26.12.2004
• EAN: 9780415971690
• ISBN: 978-0-415-97169-0
• Seiten: 236
• Serie: Latin American Studies
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Politics & government, Politics and government