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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Embedded corporatism : a theoretical perspective of U.S. drug enforcement and its pathologies in the Americas -- Drug war profiteers : U.S. drug enforcement decision making of Plan Colombia and the Mérida Initiative -- Beyond Colombia and Mérida : the institutional dimension of corporate power in the drug enforcement regime -- The corporate elite and the drug enforcement regime -- The privatization of terror : U.S. drug enforcement aid, transnational corporate expansion, and human rights repression -- Corporate hit men : an empirical analysis of U.S. drug enforcement aid, American corporations, and paramilitary death squads -- Democracy without rights : the drug-war national security state and illiberal democracies in Latin America -- Drug war capitalism and class conflict in the Americas -- Drug war policy reforms and the endurance of the embedded corporatist regime. |
| Summary |
"In this book, Horace Bartilow develops a theory of embedded corporatism to explain the U.S. government's war on drugs. Stemming from President Richard Nixon's 1971 call for an international approach to this 'war, ' the U.S. drug enforcement policy has persisted to the present day, despite widespread criticism of its effectiveness and of its unequal effects on hundreds of millions of people across the Americas. While research has consistently emphasized the role of race in U.S. drug enforcement, Bartilow's analysis empirically highlights the class dimension of the drug war and the immense power that American corporations wield within the regime. Drawing on qualitative case study methods, declassified U.S. government documents, and advanced econometric estimators that analyze cross-national data, Bartilow systematically demonstrates how corporate power, as projected through corporate lobbies, corporate financing of federal elections, corporate funding of policy think tanks, and corporate interlocks with the federal government and the military, create the conditions in which the divergent interests of state and nonstate members of the regime converge in ways that promote capital accumulation. The subsequent human rights repression, illiberal democratic governments, repression of workers, and widening income inequality throughout the Americas, Bartilow argues, are the pathological policy outcomes of the embedded corporatist drug enforcement regime"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Drug control -- Economic aspects -- United States.
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Drug control -- Economic aspects. |
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United States. |
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Drug control. |
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Drug control -- Economic aspects -- Latin America.
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Latin America. |
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Corporations -- Political activity -- America.
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Corporations -- Political activity. |
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America. |
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Corporate state -- United States.
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Corporate state. |
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Latin America -- Politics and government.
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Politics and government. |
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Human rights -- Latin America.
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Human rights. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Human rights. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Bartilow, Horace A. Drug war pathologies. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019] 9781469652542 (DLC) 2019009780 (OCoLC)1089840035 |
| ISBN |
9781469652573 (electronic book) |
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1469652579 (electronic book) |
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9781469652542 |
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1469652544 |
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9781469652559 |
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1469652552 |
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