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Administrative macrocephaly and inqueality: Public Goods and Access problems: The case of security in Guatemala

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Administrative macrocephaly and inqueality: Public Goods and Access problems: The case of security in Guatemala

Título

Administrative macrocephaly and inqueality: Public Goods and Access problems: The case of security in Guatemala

Código de publicación

  • AD-00021

Autores/as

  • Eduardo Fernández Luiña; Daniela Guzmán Matheu

Clave

  • Artículo de investigación

Colaboradores/as

Claves o descriptores

  • Guatemala, Inequality, Macrocephaly, National Civil Police

Descripción

  • Nowadays, Guatemala faces a huge political opportunity resulting from the mobilizations that took place between the months of April and September 2015. Despite the civic commitment that these demonstrations have shown, the country continues to suffer numerous problems. One of them, certainly amongst the most important, is the social exclusion caused by unequal access to certain public goods. For many Guatemalans, security is one of the major national problems. Since the signing of the Peace Accords, the nation has suffered high rates of non-political violence that have prevented a firm consolidation of the political system as well as an advance towards the long-awaited democratic quality. This research paper presents a study of the Guatemalan National Civil Police (PNC). The study reveals that there is no relation between violent areas and police presence. The most violent departments are not the ones with more access to public security. Moreover, we confirm that the institution clearly suffers from administrative macrocephaly. In the Department of Guatemala, which holds approximately 20% of the country´s population, there are more than 70% of the total existing police dependencies. The article ends with a reflection on the causes of such macrocephaly.

Localización

Revista | libro

  • Sociology and Antropology, 5 (12). Pp. 1,001-1,011.

Idioma

  • Inglés

Editor

  • HRPUB

Año de publicación

  • 2017

Formato

  • Digital

Identificador (ISBN/ISSN)

  • ISSN: 2331-6179 (Print); ISSN: 2331-6187

DOI o URI/URL

  • DOI: 10.13189/sa.2017.051203

Derechos

  • Abiertos

Fichero

  • Disponible

URL permanente repositorio Universidad de las Hespérides

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