Lynching and Local Justice. Legitimacy and Accountability in Weak States | Danielle Jung e Dara Kay Cohen

The book Lynching and Local Justice, Legitimacy and Accountability in Weak States written by Danielle F. Jung and Dara Kay Cohen – respectively Political Science and Public Policy’s scholars – and published by the Cambridge University Press in 2020, is part of the Cambridge Elements in Political Economy’s series, which draws on political science, economics and economic history to investigate new facets of political economy, a rapidly growing field of study.

The book aims at understanding through a new theory why lynching still can occur in the twenty-first century, its relationship with state governance, and how this type of violence impacts the state’s legitimacy. Leia Mais