Fighting for a Democratic Police

Politics, Experts and Bureaucrats in the Transformation of the Police in Post-Authoritarian Chile and Argentina

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2298960
AutoresPaul Hathazy (0000-0002-2254-8232, University of California, Berkeley, autor correspondente)
Ano2013
Volume12
Fascículo4
Páginas505-547
Data de publicação2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoComparative Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1569-1322 • E-ISSN: 1569-1330
EditoraWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/15691330-12341271
OpenAlexW2074631129
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11
Referências citadas15

Through a comparative field analysis, I explain why, after being subjected to the same reform projects and rationalities in the democratic period, police bureaucracies changed in Chile but remained unchanged in Argentina. In doing so I advance a field theory account of police bureaucratic change that (a) overcomes the limitations of Late-modern, Post-modern and Governmentality theories of police change, and (b) emphasizes positionality, agency and a plurality of interests in processes of administrative change. I demonstrate that the proliferation of new experts and their reconversion strategies within the field led to the emergence of specific demands for reform while the historical structures and location of the policing field and the outcomes of struggles within them determined the differential evolution of police organizations in democratic times

Agency (philosophy · Authoritarianism · Bureaucracy · Democracy · Field (mathematics · Governmentality · Modernization theory · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Law · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Politics and Society in Latin America · Public Administration