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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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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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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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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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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Warlords, the United States, and the state of anarchy in Afghanistan by Ahmad Shah Azami

“…However, over time, warlords and warlordism became a major challenge to the post-Taliban state-building project and in many ways undermined the overall security and the state monopoly on violence. These warlords, who had been mostly expelled and defeated by the Taliban regime, returned under the aegis of the B52 bombers, recaptured parts of the country and reestablished their fiefdoms with US support and resources. …”
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The Puzzle of Social Accumulation of Violence in Brazil: Some Remarks by Michel Misse

“…As proposed in previous works, political merchandise means political assets originated from the privatization of segments of the State’s pretension to sovereignty over the monopoly of violence by different agents, who negotiate these assets in exchange for economic assets or other political goods.…”
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Physical space and its role in the production and reproduction of violence in the "slum wars" in Medellin, Colombia (1970s-2013) by Samper Escobar, Jose Jaime

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Rebel Governance as State-Building? Discussing the FARC-EP's Governance Practices in Southern Colombia by José A. Gutiérrez

“…This hybrid and ambiguous situation illustrate the importance of understanding the overlapping regimes of territorial authority in conflict situations, as opposed to expecting clear-cut boundaries and monopolies (of violence, power) that rarely occur.</span><br />…”
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