Violent Democracies in Latin America

摘要

[...] violence in Latin American society [is] not merely concentrated in the state or in 'deviant' groups and individuals who contravene otherwise accepted norms" of how institutions and individuals should act in democratic settings. [...] violence is a mechanism for keeping in place the very institutions and policies that neoliberal democracies have fashioned...as well as an instrument for coping with the myriad problems that neoliberal democracies have generated" (5).