Public security in the negotiated state
Subtitle: policing in Latin America and beyond
By: Markus-Michael Müller
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780230295414
Subjects: Politics and government; Police
Description: This book seeks to overcome the lack of theoretically informed empirical studies on policing and state-society relations in areas of limited statehood. By drawing on in-depth field research in Mexico City, Markus-Michael Muller offers an insightful analysis of the negotiated character of the Mexican state and its impact on policing. Despite the resulting un-public nature of Mexican policing, he demonstrates that Mexico City residents do not abandon the state as a security provider but continue to turn to the state, in a variety of formal and informal ways and even have normative expectations regarding state-centred security provision. By putting these findings in perspective with other related cases in Latin America, Africa and Asia, the author provides a new cutting-edge perspective on the material and symbolic relevance of the state in areas of limited statehood.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The negotiated state and policing in Mexico; title: The contemporary Mexico City police; title: Policing and capital city politics; title: The transnationalization of policing in Mexico City; title: Neighborhood images : policing in Coyoacán and Iztapalapa; title: Looking beyond Mexico.