Democratización subnacional a la luz de los usos políticos del poder de policía del estado santiagueño durante el juarismo, 1995-2004

• Main Author: Celeste Schnyder
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2012-03-01
• Series: Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos
• Subjects: 21th century; Chile; democratization; juarism; police power; political intelligence agency
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/62810

This thesis analyzes the relationship between politics and violence in democracy and contrast to the particular uses and meanings of institutional violence present in the political practices of a political regime: the Juarismo in Santiago del Estero between 1995 and 2004. We argue that the functioning of democratic political regime does not mean that politicians and police to articulate, through the state, violent practices that challenge its legality and legitimacy.The liberal thought in the second half of XX century has neglected the analysis of violence as a component of power relations in the democratic politics. Studies of democratization in sub-national level were subsumed in the categories produced to think the national political regime, and were focused on domination types or the political regime. Santiago del Estero´s case indicates that the practices of institutional violence have been one of the elements that helped to structure the political bond.We studied the practices of institutional violence through the analysis of state police power focusing on the police and intelligence agency. We address the formation of informal and hidden links between PJ-Juarista leaders and police that enable the use of DIP to carry out surveillance practices and political discipline.