The Protection Racket State
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The Protection Racket State
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Author : William Stanley
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 1996-06-08
The Protection Racket State written by William Stanley and has been published by Temple University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-06-08 with Political Science categories.
In 1932 security forces in El Salvador murdered 25,000 peasants and workers. Between 1978 and 1991 the Salvadoran government killed an additional 50,000 civilians. Death squads maimed and tortured their victims, who included labor organizers, priests, and teachers. By the later months of 1980, government forces were slaughtering 1,000 civilians a month. Most of those killed were poor or worked with the poor. In per capita terms Salvadoran state terror was among the worst in the hemisphere. States have killed more people than have rebellions, but we know very little about what factors influence this genocide. Why do states kill? In this provocative and chilling book, William Stanley demonstrates that the Salvadoran military state was essentially a protection racket. It offered protection to the elites from civilian uprising and in return received a concession to govern. This protection took the form of wide-scale murder. As Stanley puts it, "State violence was a currency of relations between state and non-state elites." There are valuable lessons in this book for all those concerned with state-sponsored terror. It indicts the United States for having strengthened the might of the Salvadoran military. It challenges conventional wisdom about governments and repression and shows state-sponsored violence as much more than just a response to opposition.
The Politics Of Protection Rackets In Post New Order Indonesia
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Author : Ian Douglas Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-03-24
The Politics Of Protection Rackets In Post New Order Indonesia written by Ian Douglas Wilson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-24 with Political Science categories.
Gangs and militias have been a persistent feature of social and political life in Indonesia. During the authoritarian New Order regime they constituted part of a vast network of sub-contracted coercion and social control on behalf of the state. Indonesia’s subsequent democratisation has seen gangs adapt to and take advantage of the changed political context. New types of populist street based organisations have emerged that combine predatory rent-seeking with claims of representing marginalised social and economic groups. Based on extensive fieldwork in Jakarta this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the changing relationship between gangs, militias and political power and authority in post-New Order Indonesia. It argues that gangs and militias have manufactured various types of legitimacy in consolidating localised territorial monopolies and protection economies. As mediators between the informal politics of the street and the world of formal politics they have become often influential brokers in Indonesia’s decentralised electoral democracy. More than mere criminal extortion, it is argued that the protection racket as a social relation of coercion and domination remains a salient feature of Indonesia’s post-authoritarian political landscape. This ground-breaking study will be of interest to students and scholars of Indonesian and Southeast Asian politics, political violence, gangs and urban politics.
Interrupting Capitalism
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Author : Matthew Allen Shadle
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018
Interrupting Capitalism written by Matthew Allen Shadle and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Business & Economics categories.
Interrupting Capitalism traces the history of Catholic thinking about economic life from the perspective of a "theology of interruption." The church's social teaching provides a way for Christians to interrupt capitalism, to live out economic life faithfully in the midst of the global economy.
Between Security Markets And Protection Rackets
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Author : Marc von Boemcken
language : en
Publisher: Verlag Barbara Budrich
Release Date : 2013-02-20
Between Security Markets And Protection Rackets written by Marc von Boemcken and has been published by Verlag Barbara Budrich this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-20 with Political Science categories.
Security is a social practice, which constitutes different formations of political order. Developing a political economy of security practice, the author distinguishes these formations with a view to the actual exchanges between various providers and receivers of security services. He thus departs from a popular perspective in political science, which charts ongoing transformations in the global security landscape along a series of categorical divisions between state and non-state or between the public and the private. A more rewarding analytical perspective conceives the two most dominant security formations in the contemporary world as either based on commercial or on compulsory relations.
War Revenue And State Building
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Author : Sheldon Pollack
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2011-01-15
War Revenue And State Building written by Sheldon Pollack and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-15 with History categories.
In a relatively short time, the American state developed from a weak, highly decentralized confederation composed of thirteen former English colonies into the foremost global superpower. This remarkable institutional transformation would not have been possible without the revenue raised by a particularly efficient system of public finance, first crafted during the Civil War and then resurrected and perfected in the early twentieth century. That revenue financed America's participation in two global wars as well as the building of a modern system of social welfare programs.Sheldon D. Pollack shows how war, revenue, and institutional development are inextricably linked, no less in the United States than in Europe and in the developing states of the Third World. He delineates the mechanisms of political development and reveals to us the ways in which the United States, too, once was and still may be a "developing nation." Without revenue, states cannot maintain political institutions, undergo development, or exert sovereignty over their territory. Rulers and their functionaries wield the coercive powers of the state to extract that revenue from the population under their control. From this perspective, the state is seen as a highly efficient machine for extracting societal revenue that is used by the state to sustain itself.War, Revenue, and State Building traces the sources of public revenue available to the American state at specific junctures of its history (in particular, during times of war), the revenue strategies pursued by its political leaders in response to these factors, and the consequential impact of those strategies on the development of the American state.
Social Protection After The Crisis
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Author : Steve Tombs
language : en
Publisher: Policy Press
Release Date : 2017-03-15
Social Protection After The Crisis written by Steve Tombs and has been published by Policy Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-15 with Business & Economics categories.
This topical book considers the economic, political and social consequences of the economic crisis, the nature of social protection and the dynamics of the current crisis of regulation. It is unique in documenting how economic and social welfare are inconsistent with corporate freedom.
The Oxford Handbook Of Offender Decision Making
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Author : Wim Bernasco
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-05-08
The Oxford Handbook Of Offender Decision Making written by Wim Bernasco and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-08 with Law categories.
Although the issue of offender decision-making pervades almost every discussion of crime and law enforcement, only a few comprehensive texts cover and integrate information about the role of decision-making in crime. The Oxford Handbook of Offender Decision Making provide high-quality reviews of the main paradigms in offender decision-making, such as rational choice theory and dual-process theory. It contains up-to-date reviews of empirical research on decision-making in a wide range of decision types including not only criminal initiation and desistance, but also choice of locations, times, targets, victims, methods as well as large variety crimes including homicide, robbery, domestic violence, burglary, street crime, sexual crimes, and cybercrime. Lastly, it provides in-depth treatments of the major methods used to study offender decision-making, including experiments, observation studies, surveys, offender interviews, and simulations. Comprehensive and authoritative, the Handbook will quickly become the primary source of theoretical, methodological, and empirical knowledge about decision-making as it relates to criminal behavior.
Political Violence And The Construction Of National Identity In Latin America
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Author : Peter Lambert
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2006-11-27
Political Violence And The Construction Of National Identity In Latin America written by Peter Lambert and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-27 with Social Science categories.
This topical volume seeks to analyze the intimate but under-studied relationship between the construction of national identity in Latin America, and the violent struggle for political power that has defined Latin American history since independence. The result is an original, fascinating contribution to an increasingly important field of study.
Imagining The State
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Author : Neocleous, Mark
language : en
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Release Date : 2003-09-01
Imagining The State written by Neocleous, Mark and has been published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-01 with Social Science categories.
In this book Mark Neocleous explores such questions through a critique of what he describes as the statist political imaginary. Unpicking this imaginary while also avoiding traditional approaches to state power, the book examines the way that the state has been imagined in terms traditionally associated with human subjectivity: body, mind, personality and home.
W Stands For Women
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Author : Michaele L. Ferguson
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2007-08-29
W Stands For Women written by Michaele L. Ferguson and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-29 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Essays that examine the Bush adminstration's deployment of feminist rhetoric and the effects of the administration's policies on women, feminism, and gender roles in the U.S.