@article{ref1,
title="Constructing the limits of state violence in Central America: towards a new research agenda",
journal="Journal of Latin American studies",
year="1996",
author="Holden, Robert H.",
volume="28",
number="2",
pages="435-459",
abstract="This analysis of the historically high level of state-sponsored violence in Central America, typically explained in terms of 'authoritarianism' or 'civil-military relations', argues for according it a more independent research status. Three historic dimensions of state-sponsored violence - the mechanisms by which caudillo violence was displaced upward in the late 19th century, the level of subaltern collaboration with the agents of state violence as a function of clientelist politics, and the intrusion of US military power after 1940 - are proposed. The implications for the utility of political culture theory and for a reevaluation of the literature on civil-military relations are developed.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-216X",
doi="10.1017/S0022216X00013067",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022216X00013067"
}