Criminal Enterprises and Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean

Through an examination of violent neighborhoods this book shows how criminals affect local politics in Colombia, Brazil, and Jamaica.

List of contents

Introduction. Conflict and governance patterns in Latin America and the Caribbean; 1. Constellations of governance: theoretical approaches to micro-level armed regimes; 2. Poverty, popular incorporation, and armed groups in Latin America and the Caribbean; 3. The structure of micro-level armed regimes; 4. Security systems in areas subject to micro-level armed regimes; 5. Armed groups, civil society, and social mobilization; 6. The impact of armed dominance on elections; 7. Policy process amid armed organizations; Conclusion. Things change (and they stay the same): understanding the politics of micro-level armed regimes; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Enrique Desmond Arias is Associate Professor in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University, Virginia. He authored Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro (2006) and co-edited Violent Democracies in Latin America (with Daniel M. Goldstein, 2010). He has published in Comparative Politics, the Latin American Research Review, Qualitative Sociology, Latin American Politics and Society, and Studies in Comparative International Development.

Summary

Through a three-city, six-neighborhood nested study of areas controlled by criminal groups in Latin America and the Caribbean, this book provides a comparative examination of how different types of criminal groups create varied local political systems even under the same institutional, economic, and social conditions that exist in particular cities.

Product details

• Authors: Enrique Desmond Arias, Enrique Desmond (George Mason University Arias, Arias Enrique Desmond
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2016
• EAN: 9781107153936
• ISBN: 978-1-107-15393-6
• No. of pages: 303
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, Brazil, Jamaica, Colombia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Corruption & Misconduct, Political corruption, Political structure & processes, Organized crime, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms, Political structure and processes, Corruption in politics, government and society