The Tanzania Police Force and Transition to Democracy
Author: Research and Education for Democracy in Tanzania Project
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9789987609352
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Research and Education for Democracy in Tanzania Project
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9789987609352
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Yanilda María González
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-11-12
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 1108900380
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In countries around the world, from the United States to the Philippines to Chile, police forces are at the center of social unrest and debates about democracy and rule of law. This book examines the persistence of authoritarian policing in Latin America to explain why police violence and malfeasance remain pervasive decades after democratization. It also examines the conditions under which reform can occur. Drawing on rich comparative analysis and evidence from Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia, the book opens up the 'black box' of police bureaucracies to show how police forces exert power and cultivate relationships with politicians, as well as how social inequality impedes change. González shows that authoritarian policing persists not in spite of democracy but in part because of democratic processes and public demand. When societal preferences over the distribution of security and coercion are fragmented along existing social cleavages, politicians possess few incentives to enact reform.
Author: R. Pinkney
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1997-05-29
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0230379583
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An examination of the evolution of democracy in Ghana and Tanzania, following long periods of single-party and military rule, and looks at the current and potential obstacles to democratic development. After discussing the nature of democracy, the author goes on to consider the conditions which have made the emergence of multi-party politics possible in Ghana and Tanzania. The book looks at the balance of forces between governments and campaigners for pluralist democracy, and at the outcomes that emerged.