Across Latin America, societies are confronting the rise of novel orders in which state
officials and political authorities share power with criminal organizations. Criminal …

Based on the conceptualizations of organized crime as both an enterprise and a form of
governance, borderland as a spatial category, and borders as institutions, this paper looks at …

While worldwide crime is declining overall, criminality in Latin America has reached
unprecedented levels that have ushered in social unrest and political turmoil. Despite major …

Standing out from all other books on direct democracy, Citizenship and Contemporary Direct
Democracy connects the study of direct democracy to the broader field of comparative …

Stolen Cars is an innovative ethnography of urban inequalities and violence in São Paulo,
Brazil. Organized around the journeys of five stolen cars, each chapter discusses a specific …

Over the last few decades, debates about policing in poor urban areas have turned from
analyzing the state's neglect and abandonment into documenting its harsh interventions and …

Latin America is currently caught in a middle-quality institutional trap, combining flawed
democracies and low-to-medium capacity States. Yet, contrary to conventional wisdom, the …

This article analyzes the evolution of state capacity in Peru during the recent commodity
boom. Peru's economic growth happened in a context in which inclusive democratic …

Crecientemente las sociedades latinoamericanas enfrentan el surgimiento de nuevos
órdenes en que los funcionarios estatales y las autoridades políticas comparten el poder …

By moving away from dualistic perspectives that see social order as the product of strong
states but not weak states, this article develops a conceptual framework for interpreting …