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1 results foundAuthor: Daudelin, Jean Title: Moving Frontiers: Patterns of Drug Violence in the Americas Summary: This paper looks at the dynamics of drug violence through a property rights lens, building on the work of Alson, Libecap and Mueller on land conflict in the Amazon. In the Americas, high levels of violence are concentrated in dysfunctional drug frontiers, i.e. in areas that have the following characteristics: the drug rent is large relative to the size of the local economy; the state's repressive capabilities are relatively limited; and local competition over the drug rent is poorly self-regulated. These dysfunctional drug frontiers move around, as the value of drug rents in particular areas changes; as state repression's incentives, capabilities and/or effectiveness change over time, increasing the cost of rent capture in particular areas, and decreasing it in others; and as the quality of the self-regulation of local competition over the drug rent gets better over time in some places, and worse in others. Details: Ottawa, Ontario: Centre for Security and Defence Studies, The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, 2010. 28p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed October 7, 2012 at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1725955 Year: 2010 Country: International URL: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1725955 Shelf Number: 126574 Keywords: Armed Conflict (Americas)Drug Violence (Americas) |