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CPSA Prize in Comparative Politics Awarded to Pablo Policzer

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

The Canadian Political Science Association announced Pablo Policzer’s The Rise and Fall of Repression in Chile received the CPSA Prize in Comparative Politics 2010.

The CPSA Prize in Comparative Politics is a biennial competition established to recognize the contribution of Canadian political science to the field of comparative politics.

The jury wrote: “Pablo Policzer’s The Rise and Fall of Repression in Chile asks a Weberian question: how is coercion controlled and used by authoritarian states? To explain variations over time in the use of coercion in Chile under the Pinochet dictatorship, Policzer distinguishes between two types of monitoring of agents external and internal. A principal-agent theory is used to reconstruct the history of coercion in the Chilean state drawing on original archival research. Policzer shows how improvements in internal and external monitoring brought the coercive apparatus under greater control within the regime, and thereby reduce the personal power of Pinochet.”

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http://undpress.nd.edu/book/P01274

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