Got to spend some fantastic time thinking about the police in their many forms in Latin America.
There is some great work on this, like the amazing recent @EGAP Metaketa set of studies on community policing, led by Graeme Blair and an amazing group, with some of this work done in Latin America: https://egap.org/our-work/the-metaketa-initiative/round4-community-policing/
I'm so grateful for the many researchers who spoke to me in Argentina, Chile, especially about how their institutions have changed over time as well as on the dynamics in the current institutions.
For example, in Argentina, I learned a lot about actor dynamics, which also has bits written about it in this commentary by Fernanda Page Poma: https://www.diagonales.com/opinion/la-represion-como-resultado-de-las-interacciones-politicas_a6310a4cd61eb3c3d36f8d66d
And this piece by Mariana Gutiérrez and Gabriel Costantino: https://scholar.google.com.ar/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=6twdJUkAAAAJ&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=6twdJUkAAAAJ:Wp0gIr-vW9MC
Thinking broader relationships, too, there is also cool new research just out in top journals, including a few focusing on these countries that I just visited, including this new @jop piece by @KaiMThaler, Lisa Mueller, and Eric Mosinger on Chile: https://doi.org/10.1086/724967
And this new @Governance piece by Hernán Flom on Argentina: https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12779
Aila Matanock