TUESDAY (11/13)
IN CLASS:
La Mordida in Meixco: From "Obedezco pero no cumplo"
to traffic tickets, soccer leagues, the media, the church, pollsters,
and "el politico pobre" (Lawson)
THURSDAY (11/15)
IN CLASS:
Social, Institutional, and cultural explanations for corruption
(Rodden)
READINGS FOR WEEK 11
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Stephen D. Morris, "Corruption and the Mexican Political System:
Continuity and Change," Third World Quarterly, 1999,
20(3): 623-643.
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Andres Oppenheimer, Bordering on Chaos: 289-294.
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Gabriel Almond and Sidney Verba, "Mexico: Alienation and Aspiration,"
in The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five
Nations: 310-312.
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Hernando de Soto, The Other Path: The Invisible Revolution in
the Third World: 131-155.
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Daniel Treisman, "The Causes of Corruption: A Cross-National
Study," Journal of Public Economics (Forthcoming).
Web Links:
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A map of Mexico.
2000 Mexican presidential debate.
Mexico's Federal Police attack demonstrators protesting
World Economic Forum meeting in Cancún, February 27. (Photo: Gregory
Bull/AP)
 
Left: Former Mexican president Ernesto Zedillo; right:
Angangueo, Michoacan State, Mexico.
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