M Dewey
Biographic Data
| ID | 37314 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Dewey |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Dewey |
| SIGNATURE | DEWEY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2302-6812 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Trust, infrastructure and sociopolitics in online drug markets
Online drug markets using encryption technologies have expanded primarily in consumer regions of the Global North. This article uses an exploratory approach to examine why cryptomarkets have flourished in Europe while remaining marginal in the traditional drug-producing region of Latin America. It argues that cryptomarkets operate as socio-technical infrastructures dependent on historically embedded forms of trust, sociopolitics, and drug-use cul…
The Shifting Boundaries of State and Society in Latin America
Where is the boundary between "society" and "the state"?How can we understand this boundary in Latin America, where many workers perform tasks outside of official regulations?How can we understand this boundary when the expansion of certain illegal markets creates mixed constellations and hybrid social spaces where state representatives act as criminals and criminals attempt to establish order?These broad questions are not new.Their value lies no…
Easier, faster and safer
Encrypted messaging apps like Telegram have become an increasingly attractive tool for drug dealing. The combination of easy opening and closing of user communities, powerful anonymity features, and operability on smartphones is changing the way drugs are delivered at the end of the chain. However, much of the recent research on Internet‐based drug markets has focused on cryptomarkets, but also on social media and the clear web. Drawing on econom…
Weberian Civil Service and Labor Enforcement
Most workers in the developing world do not receive the benefits they are legally entitled to. Why, then, is there so little public enforcement? This paper argues that this is partly because of a lack of an autonomous and professional bureaucracy. Compared to a politicized labor inspectorate, a Weberian agency is free of the short‐termism imposed by electoral competition. This is key for ensuring enforcement, given that its costs are more immedia…
The Other Taxation
This article contends that previous research has failed to consider resources that are systematically collected by way of informal taxation and channeled to support the provision of public services. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the markets for stolen auto parts and counterfeit clothing in Greater Buenos Aires, this article describes how state agencies informally tax these economies, and “follows the money” extracted. While a por…
Governing through non‐enforcement
Political economy scholarship generally assumes that governments are interested in enforcing economic regulations. Cases of non‐enforcement are predominantly studied in the context of developing countries and are chiefly associated with states' deficient institutional capacity. This article casts doubts on these assumptions by showing how governments in advanced democracies manipulate the regulatory regime and generate selective non‐enforcement o…
Futurity Beyond the State
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
“This Market Changed my Life”
With only a few exceptions, economic sociology scholarship remains almost silent about illegality and crime in the economy. The implicit premise in the literature on market sociology is that institutional structures and exchanges taking place in markets are law abiding in nature. As a consequence of this legality bias the study of morality in markets has so far only addressed commodities – like human organs, gambling, drugs, alcohol, or tobacco –…
Domestic obstacles to labor standards
The obstacles to implementing labor standards in the garment industry have been addressed by a significant body of literature which increasingly considers local institutions. This includes viewing states and government actors as predictors of compliance. Yet fine-grained studies on how the interplay of informal institutions and local actors’ interests prevents standards being implemented are still lacking. Drawing on seven months of ethnographic …
State-Sponsored Protection Rackets
That illegal markets thrive is something of a puzzle to sociology. Despite the lack of legal frames—crucial for conflict resolution, regulation of competition, and formal sources of credit—new illegal markets continue to emerge. Thus an analysis of informal social mechanisms is essential for a better understanding of illegal markets’ internal coordination. The main goal of this chapter is to dissect the role of one of these mechanisms—state-spons…
The strength of collusion
By moving away from dualistic perspectives that see social order as the product of strong states but not weak states, this article develops a conceptual framework for interpreting hybrid social orders, i.e. those established by both legal and extra-legal actors. The initial premise is that hybrid forms of social domination resulting from the interaction between legal and extra-legal actors, and regulated by a combination of rational bureaucratic …
The Making of Hybrid Stateness
By default, stateness is usually considered as a state's legal ability to deliver goods or services. This understanding implies that stateness is structured by the rule of law. However, as historical and current examples show, this legal ability often relies on practices that one would define as illegal and that any measure of "stateness" must take into account. Using the case of the Police of the Province of Buenos Aires as an example, I propose…
Illegal Police Protection and the Market for Stolen Vehicles in Buenos Aires
In comparison to some illegal enterprises whose operations generate decisive moral rejection on the part of the public, vehicle theft remains an illicit underground activity that citizens largely tolerate or even exploit. In the province of Buenos Aires, the persistence, depth and breadth of transactions related to this black market cannot be explained without referring to the role of the state police. This article uses a theoretical approach to …
Procedimientos fallidos
The political elections, litigation, legislation and decision-making processes are administrative procedures whose primary function is to legitimize decisions binding. If such procedures may carry out its function they need to, like other systems, allow the emergence of uncertainty about the outcome of it. This is an essential structural component of procedures to the extent that contributes to achieve a provision aimed at the widespread acceptan…
Does sending a home safety questionnaire increase recruitment to an injury prevention trial? A randomised controlled trial
Few publications have examined maximising recruitment to randomised controlled trials in primary care. Mass mailings have been used as a recruitment strategy,1-3 but have had low response rates. Short messages in mass mailings have acheived better recruitment rates than longer messages.4 Within a primary care injury prevention trial we assessed response and recruitment rates to the trial using mass mailing, comparing an invitation to participate …
Illegal Police Protection and the Market for Stolen Vehicles in Buenos Aires
In comparison to some illegal enterprises whose operations generate decisive moral rejection on the part of the public, vehicle theft remains an illicit underground activity that citizens largely tolerate or even exploit. In the province of Buenos Aires, the persistence, depth and breadth of transactions related to this black market cannot be explained without referring to the role of the state police. This article uses a theoretical approach to …
Governing through non‐enforcement
Political economy scholarship generally assumes that governments are interested in enforcing economic regulations. Cases of non‐enforcement are predominantly studied in the context of developing countries and are chiefly associated with states' deficient institutional capacity. This article casts doubts on these assumptions by showing how governments in advanced democracies manipulate the regulatory regime and generate selective non‐enforcement o…
The strength of collusion
By moving away from dualistic perspectives that see social order as the product of strong states but not weak states, this article develops a conceptual framework for interpreting hybrid social orders, i.e. those established by both legal and extra-legal actors. The initial premise is that hybrid forms of social domination resulting from the interaction between legal and extra-legal actors, and regulated by a combination of rational bureaucratic …
Domestic obstacles to labor standards
The obstacles to implementing labor standards in the garment industry have been addressed by a significant body of literature which increasingly considers local institutions. This includes viewing states and government actors as predictors of compliance. Yet fine-grained studies on how the interplay of informal institutions and local actors’ interests prevents standards being implemented are still lacking. Drawing on seven months of ethnographic …
The Making of Hybrid Stateness
By default, stateness is usually considered as a state's legal ability to deliver goods or services. This understanding implies that stateness is structured by the rule of law. However, as historical and current examples show, this legal ability often relies on practices that one would define as illegal and that any measure of "stateness" must take into account. Using the case of the Police of the Province of Buenos Aires as an example, I propose…
Futurity Beyond the State
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
Easier, faster and safer
Encrypted messaging apps like Telegram have become an increasingly attractive tool for drug dealing. The combination of easy opening and closing of user communities, powerful anonymity features, and operability on smartphones is changing the way drugs are delivered at the end of the chain. However, much of the recent research on Internet‐based drug markets has focused on cryptomarkets, but also on social media and the clear web. Drawing on econom…
Does sending a home safety questionnaire increase recruitment to an injury prevention trial? A randomised controlled trial
Few publications have examined maximising recruitment to randomised controlled trials in primary care. Mass mailings have been used as a recruitment strategy,1-3 but have had low response rates. Short messages in mass mailings have acheived better recruitment rates than longer messages.4 Within a primary care injury prevention trial we assessed response and recruitment rates to the trial using mass mailing, comparing an invitation to participate …
Procedimientos fallidos
The political elections, litigation, legislation and decision-making processes are administrative procedures whose primary function is to legitimize decisions binding. If such procedures may carry out its function they need to, like other systems, allow the emergence of uncertainty about the outcome of it. This is an essential structural component of procedures to the extent that contributes to achieve a provision aimed at the widespread acceptan…
The Making of Hybrid Stateness
By default, stateness is usually considered as a state's legal ability to deliver goods or services. This understanding implies that stateness is structured by the rule of law. However, as historical and current examples show, this legal ability often relies on practices that one would define as illegal and that any measure of "stateness" must take into account. Using the case of the Police of the Province of Buenos Aires as an example, I propose…
Illegal Police Protection and the Market for Stolen Vehicles in Buenos Aires
In comparison to some illegal enterprises whose operations generate decisive moral rejection on the part of the public, vehicle theft remains an illicit underground activity that citizens largely tolerate or even exploit. In the province of Buenos Aires, the persistence, depth and breadth of transactions related to this black market cannot be explained without referring to the role of the state police. This article uses a theoretical approach to …
State-Sponsored Protection Rackets
That illegal markets thrive is something of a puzzle to sociology. Despite the lack of legal frames—crucial for conflict resolution, regulation of competition, and formal sources of credit—new illegal markets continue to emerge. Thus an analysis of informal social mechanisms is essential for a better understanding of illegal markets’ internal coordination. The main goal of this chapter is to dissect the role of one of these mechanisms—state-spons…
The strength of collusion
By moving away from dualistic perspectives that see social order as the product of strong states but not weak states, this article develops a conceptual framework for interpreting hybrid social orders, i.e. those established by both legal and extra-legal actors. The initial premise is that hybrid forms of social domination resulting from the interaction between legal and extra-legal actors, and regulated by a combination of rational bureaucratic …
Domestic obstacles to labor standards
The obstacles to implementing labor standards in the garment industry have been addressed by a significant body of literature which increasingly considers local institutions. This includes viewing states and government actors as predictors of compliance. Yet fine-grained studies on how the interplay of informal institutions and local actors’ interests prevents standards being implemented are still lacking. Drawing on seven months of ethnographic …
“This Market Changed my Life”
With only a few exceptions, economic sociology scholarship remains almost silent about illegality and crime in the economy. The implicit premise in the literature on market sociology is that institutional structures and exchanges taking place in markets are law abiding in nature. As a consequence of this legality bias the study of morality in markets has so far only addressed commodities – like human organs, gambling, drugs, alcohol, or tobacco –…
The Other Taxation
This article contends that previous research has failed to consider resources that are systematically collected by way of informal taxation and channeled to support the provision of public services. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the markets for stolen auto parts and counterfeit clothing in Greater Buenos Aires, this article describes how state agencies informally tax these economies, and “follows the money” extracted. While a por…
Governing through non‐enforcement
Political economy scholarship generally assumes that governments are interested in enforcing economic regulations. Cases of non‐enforcement are predominantly studied in the context of developing countries and are chiefly associated with states' deficient institutional capacity. This article casts doubts on these assumptions by showing how governments in advanced democracies manipulate the regulatory regime and generate selective non‐enforcement o…
Futurity Beyond the State
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
Weberian Civil Service and Labor Enforcement
Most workers in the developing world do not receive the benefits they are legally entitled to. Why, then, is there so little public enforcement? This paper argues that this is partly because of a lack of an autonomous and professional bureaucracy. Compared to a politicized labor inspectorate, a Weberian agency is free of the short‐termism imposed by electoral competition. This is key for ensuring enforcement, given that its costs are more immedia…
Easier, faster and safer
Encrypted messaging apps like Telegram have become an increasingly attractive tool for drug dealing. The combination of easy opening and closing of user communities, powerful anonymity features, and operability on smartphones is changing the way drugs are delivered at the end of the chain. However, much of the recent research on Internet‐based drug markets has focused on cryptomarkets, but also on social media and the clear web. Drawing on econom…
The Shifting Boundaries of State and Society in Latin America
Where is the boundary between "society" and "the state"?How can we understand this boundary in Latin America, where many workers perform tasks outside of official regulations?How can we understand this boundary when the expansion of certain illegal markets creates mixed constellations and hybrid social spaces where state representatives act as criminals and criminals attempt to establish order?These broad questions are not new.Their value lies no…
Trust, infrastructure and sociopolitics in online drug markets
Online drug markets using encryption technologies have expanded primarily in consumer regions of the Global North. This article uses an exploratory approach to examine why cryptomarkets have flourished in Europe while remaining marginal in the traditional drug-producing region of Latin America. It argues that cryptomarkets operate as socio-technical infrastructures dependent on historically embedded forms of trust, sociopolitics, and drug-use cul…
Political science (10 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (9 works) · Economics (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Enforcement (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (3 works) · Latin Americans (3 works)