Violence, Coercion, and State-Making in Twentieth-Century MexicoMexico is currently undergoing a crisis of violence and insecurity that poses serious threats to democratic transition and rule of law. This is the first book to put these developments in the context of post revolutionary state making in Mexico and to show that violence in Mexico is not the result of state failure, but of state making. While most accounts of politics and the state in recent decades have emphasized processes of transition,