%0 Journal Article %T Metš¢foras policiales, elisiones y calidad de la democraciaen Argentina y Uruguay %A Seri %A Guillermina S. %J Revista SAAP %D 2009 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X police practices constitute a direct form of governance that qualifies the reach of policies and the quality of democratic institutions. based on interviews with police officers in argentina and uruguay, this essay identifies a discretionary and hermeneutic dispositif of government that classifies individuals into categories to be alternatively included in and excluded from citizenship, thus regulating the access and extension of the political regime. %K police %K dispositif %K metaphors %K biopolitics %K citizenship. %U http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1853-19702009000100003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en