The generalization of particularized trust : an assessment of Colombia's effort to monopolize the means of violence through the prism of a social trap
This paper examines the relation between the politics of state formation and the accompanying appearance of social traps based on the example of Colombia. It shows that egregious exceptions to the rule of law - exemplified by the parapolitica and "false positives" scandals - are themselves...
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University of British Columbia
2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/13795 |