Metáforas policiales, elisiones y calidad de la democraciaen Argentina y Uruguay

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.