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Journal of Latin American Studies | 2012

Illegal Police Protection and the Market for Stolen Vehicles in Buenos Aires

Matías Dewey

In comparison to some illegal enterprises whose operations generate decisive moral rejection on the part of the public, vehicle theft remains an illicit underground activity that citizens largely tolerate or even exploit. In the province of Buenos Aires, the persistence, depth and breadth of transactions related to this black market cannot be explained without referring to the role of the state police. This article uses a theoretical approach to illegal police protection in order to understand the complicity between the police and criminals as fundamental to the market for stolen cars in the province. Using data from in-depth interviews and official documents, the article examines how exactly the police protect thieves, dismantlers and distributors of cars and/or auto parts. It analyses three elements that condition the sale of illegal protection to criminals by the police: threats and selective implementation of penalties; control of consequences; and bureaucratic falsification.


Archive | 2011

Fragile States, Robust Structures: Illegal Police Protection in Buenos Aires

Matías Dewey

Weakness is a quality frequently ascribed to Latin American states. This diagnosis proves faulty since it is possible to find resistant structures inside those states that perpetuate such weaknesses. This article shows that this is the case in regards to the police force of the province of Buenos Aires. Here, I will demonstrate that the police have specialized in selling a service available to criminals and criminal organizations: illegal protection. With information taken from in-depth interviews and official documents, I will show that this protection – contrary to the views of Charles Tilly and Diego Gambetta – is characterized by a temporary suspension of the rule of law.


Current Sociology | 2017

The strength of collusion: A conceptual framework for interpreting hybrid social orders

Matías Dewey; Daniel Pedro Míguez; Marcelo Fabián Saín

By moving away from dualistic perspectives that see social order as the product of strong states but not weak states, this article develops a conceptual framework for interpreting hybrid social orders, i.e. those established by both legal and extra-legal actors. The initial premise is that hybrid forms of social domination resulting from the interaction between legal and extra-legal actors, and regulated by a combination of rational bureaucratic and neo-patrimonial rules, produce relevant economic and political outcomes such as job creation, the supply of basic services and the production of authority. Especially in contexts of continuous economic crisis, ethnic segregation, social marginalization and persistent inequality, these outcomes have ordering effects both in terms of reducing uncertainty and regulating social expectations. Furthermore, in such social contexts, socially tolerated illegal markets play a decisive role. Supported by recent and innovative research, this article concludes with hypotheses intended to promote further research.


Revista De Ciencia Politica | 2012

THE MAKING OF HYBRID STATENESS: SOURCES Of POLICE PERFORMANCE IN THE CONURBANO

Matías Dewey

By default, stateness is usually considered as a state’s legal ability to deliver goods or services. this understanding implies that stateness is structured by the rule of law. However, as historical and current examples show, this legal ability often relies on practices that one would define as illegal and that any measure of ‘stateness’ must take into account. using the case of the police of the province of Buenos aires as an example, i propose the notion of hybrid stateness i.e. an understanding of stateness that considers the state’s ability to operate illegally. this short piece addresses the institutional and budgetary setting of the provincial police force and tackles the question of where the illegal resources for performing police’s duties come from.


Archive | 2012

Durch Luhmanns Brille: Herausforderungen an Politik und Recht in Lateinamerika und in der Weltgesellschaft

Peter Birle; Matías Dewey; Aldo Mascareño

Das vorliegende Buch geht ursprunglich auf ein Symposium zuruck, das im Dezember 2007 im Ibero-Amerikanischen Institut (IAI) in Berlin stattfand. Warum eine Veranstaltung zu Niklas Luhmann in einer Einrichtung, deren Forschung sich insbesondere mit Lateinamerika beschaftigt? Dafur gibt es eine Reihe von Grunden. Bereits bevor das IAI sich fur die Jahre 2010-2014 fur den Forschungsschwerpunkt „Kulturtransfer und wissenschaftlicher Austausch zwischen Europa und Lateinamerika“ entschied, spielte dieser Themenbereich im Rahmen der institutseigenen Forschung eine wichtige Rolle. Zentrale Fragen in diesem Zusammenhang lauten: Welche aus Europa stammenden wissenschaftlichen Diskurse, Theorien, Methoden und Techniken wurden und werden in Lateinamerika rezipiert und auf welchen Wegen? Welche Veranderungen durchlaufen sie durch Prozesse des wissenschaftlichen Austauschs? Welche wechselseitigen epistemologischen Einflusse zwischen den beiden Regionen sind zu beobachten? Welche Rolle spielen in diesem Zusammenhang Einzelpersonen wie Akademiker und wissenschaftliche brokersowie wissenschaftliche, politische und kulturelle Institutionen?


Contexts | 2017

Hope in the Sweatshops of Buenos Aires

Matías Dewey; Katherine Walker; Sarah Pabst

Dreaming and hustling in La Salada, Latin America’s largest low-cost garment marketplace.


Archive | 2012

Wenn die Entscheidungsakzeptanz scheitert. Vertrauen und Misstrauen im Legitimationsprozess in Argentinien

Matías Dewey

Der Verfahrensbegriff bei Luhmann setzt die Relevanz des Rechts als Orientierungsrahmen der Kommunikation voraus. Dies scheint bei ihm ein fur den Kommunikationsprozess weltweit unvermeidlicher Referenzpunkt zu sein, der ohne Weiteres als eine evolutionare Errungenschaft unserer Gesellschaft betrachtet werden soll. Verfahren produzieren Legitimation, weil die Teilnehmer des Verfahrens uber Vertrauen in das symbolische Kommunikationsmedium Recht verfugen und dadurch eine Umstrukturierung von Erwartungen ermoglicht wird. Hiermit wird nicht die Akzeptanz von Entscheidungen anhand einer rationalen inhaltlichen Ubereinstimmung verstanden, vielmehr handelt es sich im Unterschied zur Kritik von Habermas um Entscheidungen, die dank eines verbreiteten Vertrauens in das Recht angenommen werden konnen. Das Recht erreicht soziale Relevanz durch Vertrauen und eine rechtmasige Rechtskonkretisierung ernahrt wiederum das Vertrauen. Verfugt das Recht uber ein durch die Geschichte bestatigtes Vertrauen, das aus diesem Grund auch enttauschungsresistent ist, dann ist es moglich, uber die Selbstlegitimation des Staates zu sprechen (Luhmann 1981).


Archive | 2017

The Architecture of Illegal Markets: Towards an Economic Sociology of Illegality in the Economy

Jens Beckert; Matías Dewey


Archive | 2017

Introduction: The Social Organization of Illegal Markets

Jens Beckert; Matías Dewey


Archive | 2016

Porous Borders: The Study of Illegal Markets from a Sociological Perspective

Matías Dewey

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