Year: 2015
Type: report
Abstract: This paper intends to analyze the historical evolution of military involvement in internal\nsecurity affairs of Mexico since the late 1940s. Recently, many critics have written\nextensively about Mexico’s heavily militarized policy towards drug trafficking and\nthe organized crime (f.ex: Moloeznik 2010; Manaut 2009; Artz 2003). But without\nrecognizing the historical continuities underlying such policy model, we cannot fully\ncomprehend its origins and effectiveness. Historical-institutionalism is a useful\ntheoretical approach when we are dealing with slow-moving process not captured by a\nshort-time perspective. This approach has emphasized how things that have been\ninstitutionalized are inert and un-changed (Mahoney and Thelen 2010). They consider\ninstitutions to generate different sets of power distribution that can be changed\naccording to the actors’ will. Pierson (Pierson 2000) in the work “Politics in Time” has\nargued that since what characterizes science is the discovery of causal relations we\nshould consider time itself as an intervenient variable. In fact, causes and consequences\nmay be separated over time and it may be useful to stretch the temporal horizon of a\ngiven analysis. (First paragraph)
Source: SPIRE (Sciences Po)
Author: Medeiros Passos, Anais
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2266826480