ISSN:
0022-216X
Source:
Cambridge Journals Digital Archives
Topics:
Political Science
Notes:
AbstractThis analysis of the historically high level of state-sponsored violence in Central America, typically explained in terms of ‘authoritarianism’ or ‘civil-military relations’, argues for according it a more independent research status. Three historic dimensions of state-sponsored violence – the mechanisms by which caudillo violence was displaced upward in the late 19th century, the level of subaltern collaboration with the agents of state violence as a function of clientelist politics, and the intrusion of US military power after 1940 – are proposed. The implications for the utility of political culture theory and for a reevaluation of the literature on civil-military relations are developed.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022216X00013067
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