Drug War Pathologies : Embedded Corporatism and U.S. Drug Enforcement in the Americas

Horace A. Bartilow

ISBN 10: 1469652552 / ISBN 13: 9781469652559

Editore: The University Of North Carolina Press, 2019

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - In this book, Horace Bartilow develops a theory of embedded corporatism to explain the U.S. government s war on drugs. Stemming from President Richard Nixon s 1971 call for an international approach to this "war," U.S. drug enforcement policy has persisted with few changes to the present day, despite widespread criticism of its effectiveness and of its unequal effects on hundreds of millions of people across the Americas. While researchers consistently emphasize the role of race in U.S. drug enforcement, Bartilow s empirical analysis highlights the class dimension of the drug war and the immense power that American corporations wield within the regime.Drawing on qualitative case study methods, declassified U.S. government documents, and advanced econometric estimators that analyze cross-national data, Bartilow demonstrates how corporate power is projected and embedded in lobbying, financing of federal elections, funding of policy think tanks, and interlocks with the federal government and the military. Embedded corporatism, he explains, creates the conditions by which interests of state and nonstate members of the regime converge to promote capital accumulation. The subsequent human rights repression, illiberal democratic governments, antiworker practices, and widening income inequality throughout the Americas, Bartilow argues, are the pathological policy outcomes of embedded corporatism in drug enforcement.

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• Titolo: Drug War Pathologies : Embedded Corporatism and U.S. Drug Enforcement in the Americas
• Editore: The University Of North Carolina Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1469652552
• ISBN 13: 9781469652559
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 234 L x 156 A x 19 P (millimetri) 234 millimetri di larghezza per 156 millimetri di altezza per 19 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 550 grammi

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In this book, Horace Bartilow develops a theory of embedded corporatism to explain the U.S. government’s war on drugs. Stemming from President Richard Nixon’s 1971 call for an international approach to this “war,” U.S. drug enforcement policy has persisted with few changes to the present day, despite widespread criticism of its effectiveness and of its unequal effects on hundreds of millions of people across the Americas. While researchers consistently emphasize the role of race in U.S. drug enforcement, Bartilow’s empirical analysis highlights the class dimension of the drug war and the immense power that American corporations wield within the regime.

Drawing on qualitative case study methods, declassified U.S. government documents, and advanced econometric estimators that analyze cross-national data, Bartilow demonstrates how corporate power is projected and embedded—in lobbying, financing of federal elections, funding of policy think tanks, and interlocks with the federal government and the military. Embedded corporatism, he explains, creates the conditions by which interests of state and nonstate members of the regime converge to promote capital accumulation. The subsequent human rights repression, illiberal democratic governments, antiworker practices, and widening income inequality throughout the Americas, Bartilow argues, are the pathological policy outcomes of embedded corporatism in drug enforcement.

Informazioni sull'autore

Horace A. Bartilow, professor of international political economy at the University of Kentucky, is the author of The Debt Dilemma.