Violence, coercion, and state-making in twentieth-century Mexico : the other half of the centaur / edited by Wil G. Pansters.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Zones of state-making: violence, coercion, and hegemony in twentieth-century Mexico / Wil G. Pansters -- States, borders, and violence : lessons from the U.S.-Mexican experience / David A. Shirk -- Policing and regime transition: from postauthoritarianism to populism to neoliberalism / Diane E. Davis -- Who killed Crispín Aguilar?: violence and order in the postrevolutionary countryside / Paul Gillingham -- Narco-violence and the State in modern Mexico / Alan Knight -- States of violence: state-crime relations in Mexico / Mónica Serrano -- Policing new illegalities: piracy, raids, and madrinas / José Carlos G. Aguiar -- The rise of gangsterism and charrismo: labor violence and the postrevolutionary Mexican state / Marcos Aguila and Jeffrey Bortz -- Political practice, everyday political violence, and electoral processes during the neoliberal period in Mexico / Kathy Powell -- Violence and reconstitution in Mexican indigenous communities / John Gledhill -- New violence, insecurity, and the State: comparative reflections on Latin America and Mexico / Kees Koonings.

Mexico is currently undergoing a crisis of violence and insecurity that poses serious threats to democratic transition and rule of law. This book puts these developments in the context of post-revolutionary state-making in Mexico and shows that violence in the country is not the result of state failure, but of state-making. While most accounts of politics and the state in recent decades have emphasized processes of transition, institutional conflict resolution, and neo-liberal reform, this book lays out the increasingly important role of violence and coercion by a range of state and non-state armed actors.

English.

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