T Hilgers
Biographic Data
| ID | 53361 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T Hilgers |
| GIVEN NAMES | T |
| FAMILY NAME | Hilgers |
| SIGNATURE | HILGERS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0917-3322 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 118 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Tensions between the Middle Classes and the “New Middle Class” in Brazil: An Accidental Biographical Ethnography
This article constructs an understanding of the Brazilian middle classes using economic, sociological, and cultural factors. It argues that the so-called new middle class is actually an expanded vulnerable class, and that the middle classes are simultaneously conscious and in denial of injustice toward the lower classes. The argument is based on an accidental biographical ethnography: reinterpretation of a field journal and the use of one person …
The Pandemic and Organized Crime in Urban Latin America: New Sovereignty Arrangements or Business as Usual
Using a focus on the ways that Covid-19 has impacted everyday life in urban Latin America, this article examines the shifting activities of organized criminal groups in the context of a global pandemic. Using grounded ethnographic fieldwork drawn from Brazil, it asks whether a health crisis with direct life and death consequences has empowered illicit actors, and by so doing changed longstanding relationships between illicit actors and citizens o…
Negociar inclusão pelo clientelismo: Democracias Neoliberais, Pobreza E Desigualdade
Teoricamente, a democracia racional-legal e a economia neoliberal deveriam desencorajar o clientelismo, mas o clientelismo continua difundido na América Latina. Quais são as raízes dessa desconexão entre teoria e realidade? Defendemos que a continuidade do clientelismo se deve em grande parte aos efeitos das políticas econômicas neoliberais: a escassez de recursos estatais e o aumento dos níveis de pobreza e desigualdade. Sugerimos ainda que a in…
Community oriented policing theory and practice: Global policy diffusion or local appropriation
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have now had 20 years of experience with community policing programmes (COP), yet high rates of public crime and violence, police violence and corruption, as well as public distrust of the police continue. The introduction to this special issue frames a set of contributions that, together, tell the story of COP’s problems and promise in the region. It argues that, in Latin America and the Caribbean, COP is of…
Security, Resilience and Participatory Urban Upgrading in Latin America and the Caribbean
In theory, security and resilience in contexts of violence and crime are improved by participatory urban upgrading. Yet, upgrading practices actually demonstrate how vulnerabilities to violence, insecurity and crime are reproduced by state-society and intra-community power hierarchies. On the one hand, the priorities and perspectives of politicians and bureaucrats continue to take precedence over the needs and demands of residents of marginalized…
Clientelistic Democracy or Democratic Clientelism
T he vast literature on clientelism is marked by the struggle to explain the difference between the formal, impersonal. and universally applicable channels and institutions that are identified with democracy in theory—and ostensibly implanted in practice—and the more personalized exchanges (ranging from benign to sinister) that occur in real politics, all efforts to eliminate them to the contrary. Searching for the causes and effects of these exc…
Democratic Processes, Clientelistic Relationships, and the Material Goods Problem
The central question in this volume is what is the relationship between clientelism and democracy? The traditional answer to this question has been that clientelism is a vestige of authoritarian regimes that undermines democratic institutions and processes (see the discussion in Roniger 1994b). In the view of the contributors to this volume, the dynamics of clientelism and democracy on the ground are more complex. In third-wave countries with dev…
La relation complexe entre clientélisme et démocratie1
Si le clientélisme, l’achat de votes, le patronage et les autres échanges personnels de même nature ont des répercussions négatives sur la démocratie, la chaîne de causalité n’est pas unidirectionnelle. Dans maintes démocraties en émergence, la précarité des assises du régime et la réactivité erratique du gouvernement dans des économies stagnantes incitent les politiciens et les électeurs à recourir aux échanges personnels. Or, lorsque les acteur…
Clientelism and conceptual stretching: Differentiating Among Concepts and Among Analytical Levels
Who is Using Whom?' Clientelism from the Client's Perspective
Recentering Informality On The Research Agenda: Grassroots Action, Political Parties, and Democratic Governance
The three volumes reviewed here aim to bring informality to the center of the Latin American (and, for Kitschelt and Wilkinson, the broader) research agenda, pointing to the inextricable linkages between informality and the formal activities and structures of the state. They also identify the positive effects of informal activities, which have often been regarded as pernicious. Out of the Shadows uses the new economic sociology to show how inform…
Mexico's Middle Class in the Neoliberal Era
Causes and Consequences of Political Clientelism: Mexico's PRD in Comparative Perspective
PRD politicians and officials widely use clientelism to structure their relationships with citizens. This is due not only to the entrenchment of clientelism in Mexican politics or to high rates of poverty and inequality, but also to the limited institutionalization of democratic rules inside the party. The last stems largely from the party's electoral strategy in its formative years, and has resulted in uncontrolled factional battles that play ou…
Democratization Without Representation: The Politics of Small Industry in Mexico
Democratization Without Representation: The Politics of Small Industry in Mexico, Shadlen, Kenneth C., University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004, pp. vii–xvi, 208.In this book Kenneth Shadlen addresses the important question of what democracy has really meant for civil society in Mexico. Mexico counts among the stragglers over the finish line of third-wave transitions, but, as elsewhere, hopes were high that democratization would…
Clientelism and conceptual stretching: Differentiating Among Concepts and Among Analytical Levels
Causes and Consequences of Political Clientelism: Mexico's PRD in Comparative Perspective
PRD politicians and officials widely use clientelism to structure their relationships with citizens. This is due not only to the entrenchment of clientelism in Mexican politics or to high rates of poverty and inequality, but also to the limited institutionalization of democratic rules inside the party. The last stems largely from the party's electoral strategy in its formative years, and has resulted in uncontrolled factional battles that play ou…
Who is Using Whom?' Clientelism from the Client's Perspective
Community oriented policing theory and practice: Global policy diffusion or local appropriation
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have now had 20 years of experience with community policing programmes (COP), yet high rates of public crime and violence, police violence and corruption, as well as public distrust of the police continue. The introduction to this special issue frames a set of contributions that, together, tell the story of COP’s problems and promise in the region. It argues that, in Latin America and the Caribbean, COP is of…
The Pandemic and Organized Crime in Urban Latin America: New Sovereignty Arrangements or Business as Usual
Using a focus on the ways that Covid-19 has impacted everyday life in urban Latin America, this article examines the shifting activities of organized criminal groups in the context of a global pandemic. Using grounded ethnographic fieldwork drawn from Brazil, it asks whether a health crisis with direct life and death consequences has empowered illicit actors, and by so doing changed longstanding relationships between illicit actors and citizens o…
Security, Resilience and Participatory Urban Upgrading in Latin America and the Caribbean
In theory, security and resilience in contexts of violence and crime are improved by participatory urban upgrading. Yet, upgrading practices actually demonstrate how vulnerabilities to violence, insecurity and crime are reproduced by state-society and intra-community power hierarchies. On the one hand, the priorities and perspectives of politicians and bureaucrats continue to take precedence over the needs and demands of residents of marginalized…
Mexico's Middle Class in the Neoliberal Era
Democratization Without Representation: The Politics of Small Industry in Mexico
Democratization Without Representation: The Politics of Small Industry in Mexico, Shadlen, Kenneth C., University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004, pp. vii–xvi, 208.In this book Kenneth Shadlen addresses the important question of what democracy has really meant for civil society in Mexico. Mexico counts among the stragglers over the finish line of third-wave transitions, but, as elsewhere, hopes were high that democratization would…
Recentering Informality On The Research Agenda: Grassroots Action, Political Parties, and Democratic Governance
The three volumes reviewed here aim to bring informality to the center of the Latin American (and, for Kitschelt and Wilkinson, the broader) research agenda, pointing to the inextricable linkages between informality and the formal activities and structures of the state. They also identify the positive effects of informal activities, which have often been regarded as pernicious. Out of the Shadows uses the new economic sociology to show how inform…
Mexico's Middle Class in the Neoliberal Era
Causes and Consequences of Political Clientelism: Mexico's PRD in Comparative Perspective
PRD politicians and officials widely use clientelism to structure their relationships with citizens. This is due not only to the entrenchment of clientelism in Mexican politics or to high rates of poverty and inequality, but also to the limited institutionalization of democratic rules inside the party. The last stems largely from the party's electoral strategy in its formative years, and has resulted in uncontrolled factional battles that play ou…
Who is Using Whom?' Clientelism from the Client's Perspective
Clientelism and conceptual stretching: Differentiating Among Concepts and Among Analytical Levels
Clientelistic Democracy or Democratic Clientelism
T he vast literature on clientelism is marked by the struggle to explain the difference between the formal, impersonal. and universally applicable channels and institutions that are identified with democracy in theory—and ostensibly implanted in practice—and the more personalized exchanges (ranging from benign to sinister) that occur in real politics, all efforts to eliminate them to the contrary. Searching for the causes and effects of these exc…
Democratic Processes, Clientelistic Relationships, and the Material Goods Problem
The central question in this volume is what is the relationship between clientelism and democracy? The traditional answer to this question has been that clientelism is a vestige of authoritarian regimes that undermines democratic institutions and processes (see the discussion in Roniger 1994b). In the view of the contributors to this volume, the dynamics of clientelism and democracy on the ground are more complex. In third-wave countries with dev…
La relation complexe entre clientélisme et démocratie1
Si le clientélisme, l’achat de votes, le patronage et les autres échanges personnels de même nature ont des répercussions négatives sur la démocratie, la chaîne de causalité n’est pas unidirectionnelle. Dans maintes démocraties en émergence, la précarité des assises du régime et la réactivité erratique du gouvernement dans des économies stagnantes incitent les politiciens et les électeurs à recourir aux échanges personnels. Or, lorsque les acteur…
Community oriented policing theory and practice: Global policy diffusion or local appropriation
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have now had 20 years of experience with community policing programmes (COP), yet high rates of public crime and violence, police violence and corruption, as well as public distrust of the police continue. The introduction to this special issue frames a set of contributions that, together, tell the story of COP’s problems and promise in the region. It argues that, in Latin America and the Caribbean, COP is of…
Security, Resilience and Participatory Urban Upgrading in Latin America and the Caribbean
In theory, security and resilience in contexts of violence and crime are improved by participatory urban upgrading. Yet, upgrading practices actually demonstrate how vulnerabilities to violence, insecurity and crime are reproduced by state-society and intra-community power hierarchies. On the one hand, the priorities and perspectives of politicians and bureaucrats continue to take precedence over the needs and demands of residents of marginalized…
Tensions between the Middle Classes and the “New Middle Class” in Brazil: An Accidental Biographical Ethnography
This article constructs an understanding of the Brazilian middle classes using economic, sociological, and cultural factors. It argues that the so-called new middle class is actually an expanded vulnerable class, and that the middle classes are simultaneously conscious and in denial of injustice toward the lower classes. The argument is based on an accidental biographical ethnography: reinterpretation of a field journal and the use of one person …
The Pandemic and Organized Crime in Urban Latin America: New Sovereignty Arrangements or Business as Usual
Using a focus on the ways that Covid-19 has impacted everyday life in urban Latin America, this article examines the shifting activities of organized criminal groups in the context of a global pandemic. Using grounded ethnographic fieldwork drawn from Brazil, it asks whether a health crisis with direct life and death consequences has empowered illicit actors, and by so doing changed longstanding relationships between illicit actors and citizens o…
Negociar inclusão pelo clientelismo: Democracias Neoliberais, Pobreza E Desigualdade
Teoricamente, a democracia racional-legal e a economia neoliberal deveriam desencorajar o clientelismo, mas o clientelismo continua difundido na América Latina. Quais são as raízes dessa desconexão entre teoria e realidade? Defendemos que a continuidade do clientelismo se deve em grande parte aos efeitos das políticas econômicas neoliberais: a escassez de recursos estatais e o aumento dos níveis de pobreza e desigualdade. Sugerimos ainda que a in…
Political science (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Clientelism (5 works) · Democracy (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (4 works) · Latin Americans (4 works)