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La democracia en Guerrero: violencias, acción gubernamental y acción colectiva is the result of a collaborative research effort carried out by faculty and graduate students from the Instituto Internacional de Estudios Políticos Avanzados Ignacio Manuel Altamirano (IIEPA-IMA) and the Faculty of Law of Acapulco (Facultad de Derecho de Acapulco, FDA) of the Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero.

This collective volume emerges from the classroom, fieldwork, and dialogue within the Master’s Programs in Political Science and in Violence and Conflict Management. It reflects the academic and political commitment of a new generation of researchers who aim to understand and intervene in the local dynamics of power, violence, and resistance in Guerrero—one of Mexico’s most historically marginalized and conflict-ridden states.

Through a series of case studies and conceptual reflections, the book addresses key issues such as state violence, institutional inaction, gendered inequalities, electoral manipulation, and the emergence of grassroots social movements. Its central argument is that democracy in Guerrero remains deeply fragile and incomplete, and that its recovery must be led from below, through the organized action of citizens facing daily exclusion.

This book contributes to broader debates on democracy in Latin America by offering a situated, critical perspective rooted in the experiences of communities resisting dispossession and authoritarian continuity.