The monopoly of violence : evidence from Colombia by Acemoglu, Daron, Robinson, James A., Santos, Rafael

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Losing the Monopoly of Violence: The State, a Drug War and the Paramilitarization of Organized Crime in Mexico (2007–10) by Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, Michelle Keck, José Nava

“…Finally, the present analysis makes use of Max Weber's (1919) “monopoly of violence” framework, and explains how the Mexican State has been losing this monopoly in recent years.…”
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Explaining the Long-Term Trend in Violent Crime: A Heuristic Scheme and Some Methodological Considerations by Helmut Thome

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Crime and the Governance of Large Metropolises in Latin America: Mexico City (Mexico) and São Paulo (Brazil) by Sérgio Adorno, Arturo Alvarado

Subjects: “…urban governance, criminal governance, state monopoly on violence, mexico city, são paulo…”
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THE SHIA ARMED GROUPS AND THE FUTURE OF IRAQ by Kardo Karim RACHED, Ahmed Omar BALI

“…We assess these different groups from different perspectives, for example, using the Weberian theory that the state is the only entity that has a monopoly of violence, Ariel Ahram’s model of state-sponsored and government-sponsored militias, and finally the devolution of violence to these armed groups.…”
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Striving for the Impossible? Policing and Territoriality in the Age of the War on Terror by Stig Jarle Hansen

“…This article asks how variations of state territorial control have influenced police missions in the recent past, and illustrate how recent police reforms were based on the structure of a ‘western’ type state with clearly identifiable formal state institutions enjoying autonomy, that strive for a form of territorial monopoly over violence. The article argues for moving beyond such assumptions by adopting scenarios based on how territory is controlled, developing four scenarios that can enable foreign-backed police missions to adapt to local circumstances. …”
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The Roman State and Genetic Pacification by Peter Frost

“…The change seems to reflect adaptations to new social environments, including the rise of the State and its monopoly on violence. State societies punish young men who act violently on their own initiative. …”
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The State of Coal Mining in East Kalimantan: Towards a Political Ecology of Local Stateness by Anna Fünfgeld

“…It draws on a qualitative field study on the conflict over coal mining in East Kalimantan’s capital Samarinda, Indonesia, where certain characteristics of states, such as the monopoly of violence and the rule of law, are being affirmed, altered, or undermined through practices of state and non-state actors alike. …”
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Analysis of organized crime: Camorra by Ceci Elvio

“…After the introductory part, the author gives a review of the genesis of the crime, but also of the main functions of criminal organizations: control of the territory, monopoly of violence, propensity for mediation and offensive capability. …”
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Privatisation of Security: Private Military Contractors Serving Governments by Jarosław Piątek

“…The article casts some doubt on how much states are prepared to take such actions, while not losing the attribute of monopoly on violence. Moreover, the article presents doubts about the ranks of modern armed forces. …”
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Pirates vs. Press Gangs: The Battle for the Atlantic by Denver Brunsman

“…But pirates also illustrate an underappreciated process in the development of modern states and empires: the struggle between state and non-state actors to establish a monopoly of violence on the high seas. This essay traces this contest over violence in three stages: (1) the challenge posed by English pirates to Europe’s dominant imperial power, Spain, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; (2) the threat made by these same pirates to the emerging British Empire in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries; and (3) the successful efforts of the British state to exert control over the Atlantic through state-sponsored forms of piracy, privateers and press gangs, in the eighteenth century. …”
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Western Europe, State Formation, and Genetic Pacification by Peter Frost, Henry C. Harpending

“…Through its monopoly on violence, the State tends to pacify social relations. …”
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Discursive Practices of Mediatic Violence in the Case of Gezi Park Protests by Deniz ÇABA

“…In the end of the study, it became clear that Hürriyet Newspaper legitimized the monopoly of violence by the state and fixed the meaning in the “obedient citizen” retribution by dividing those who participated in the acts into the acceptable and marginal activist duality.…”
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Exploring the linkage between soldier-local relations and economic development in conflict zone: Darra Adamkhel in front line by Saira Aquil

“…Counterinsurgency operations have become a matter of pivotal importance for Pakistan to re-establish its monopoly on violence in its tribal region. But counterinsurgency operations have moved beyond the traditional military strategy and the outcome overwhelmingly depends on the success of the population-based strategy that includes consultative and cooperative pattern of solider-locals relations and could ultimately win the hearts and minds of the people. …”
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The mahatma in the machine by Banerjee, Dwaipayan

“…For example, there is the liberal appropriation, in which Gandhian non-violence is translated as an internal critique of imperfect but perfectible institutions, coupled to an implicit reaffirmation of the state’s monopoly of violence. In contrast, Skaria’s work joins an exciting counter-tradition of scholarship that has refused to shy away from Gandhi’s insistence on religion as a condition of politics. …”
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Margins of Allegiance and Revolt: Relations between Kurdish Tribes and the State from the Late Ottoman Period to the Early Modern Republic by Yalçın Çakmak, Tuncay Şur

“…Contrary to the state, which systematically and regularly perpetrated this violence and institutionalized and justified itself through the monopoly of violence, their inability to do so did not necessarily mean that they were not genuine political organizations and did not have their own agenda. …”
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A Idade Média entre o "poder público" e a "centralização política": itinerários de uma construção historiográfica The Middle Ages between "public sphere" and "political centralizat... by Néri de Barros Almeida

“…In first discussing its connection with the role that the Middle Ages plays in contemporaneous historiography, in counterpoint to modern political and social forms (specially the centralized state and its monopoly of violence). Second place trying to define the point of view of the medieval historians about the violence that they record.…”
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The Comparative Analysis of Regional Governors’ Approaches to Fostering Inclusive Political Institutions in Post-Euromaidan Donbas by Valentyna Romanova

“…State capacity, namely its key dimension of monopoly over violence, is operationalized as control over the contact line in the armed conflict in Donbas. …”
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Post-2018 Ethiopia: state fragility, failure, or collapse? by Endalcachew Bayeh

“…State fragility occurs if the state fails to exercise a monopoly on violence, protect its citizens, provide adequate public services, and maintain legitimacy. …”
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A Relational Study About Wrestling Culture in Battal Gazi Novel by M. Aytül Kasapoğlu, M. Muhtar Kutlu

“…However, his predictions about the development of democracy in proportion to the transfer of the monopoly of violence from the society to the state, unfortunately, could not be realized. …”
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