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Author Moncada, Eduardo, 1977- author.

Title Cities, business, and the politics of urban violence in Latin America / Eduardo Moncada
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]
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Contents Rethinking the politics of urban violence -- Parties, clientelism, and violence : exclusionary political order in Colombia -- Medellin : reshaping political order and criminal coexistence -- Cali : the derailment of a pioneering participatory project -- Bogota : building and branding a global city -- The politics of urban violence : comparisons and next steps
Summary This text analyzes and explains the ways in which major developing world cities respond to the challenge of urban violence. The study shows how the political projects that cities launch to confront urban violence are shaped by the interaction between urban political economies and patterns of armed territorial control. It introduces business as a pivotal actor in the politics of urban violence, and argues that how business is organized within cities and its linkages to local governments impacts whether or not business supports or subverts state efforts to stem and prevent urban violence. A focus on city mayors finds that the degree to which politicians rely upon clientelism to secure and maintain power influences whether they favour responses to violence that perpetuate or weaken local political exclusion
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Urban violence -- Colombia -- Case studies
Municipal government -- Colombia -- Case studies
Business and politics -- Colombia -- Case studies
Patron and client -- Colombia -- Case studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Comparative Politics.
Business and politics
Municipal government
Patron and client
Urban violence
Colombia
Genre/Form Electronic books
Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780804796903
0804796904