Wealth and violence: untangling a complex relationship -- Historical evolution of political and economic monopolies in Mexico, antiquity to the 1980s -- The onset and entrenchment of misplaced monopolies in Mexico's political economy, 1980s to 2006 -- Looking in vain for exits from misplaced...

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. Institutions, Interests, and Ideas in Explaining Regime Change -- 1 Financial Shocks, Economic Crises, and Democracy: Theory and Practice -- PART I. GREAT DEPRESSION, 1929-34 -- 2 Economic Crisis and Democracy during the Great Depression -- 3...

This document describes the evolution of defense, justice and security spending and criminality in Colombia since 1950. It presents some considerations about its efficiency and analyzes some pertinent indicators. Also it proposes some policies that the authors believe are useful to increase...

The criminality rate in Colombia (crime/population) grew rapidly between the middle seventies and eighties, since then it had shown a declination, but the country still observes high indices of criminality, mostly in homicides and kidnapping. In a similar way defense, security and justice...