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Discretion versus Rules: Subnational Policy Regimes in Mexico

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Mauricio Benítez
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies

April 22, 2009
3:30p.m.
Location: Institute of the Americas Complex, Deutz Room
Open to: Public

Mauricio Benítez is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at UCSD. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. in International Relations from El Colegio de México. He specializes in political parties, electoral competition, and the politics of public policy in Latin America. His dissertation focuses on changes in distributive politics in Mexican states after substantive budgetary decentralization in the early 2000s, on the basis of in-depth fieldwork in Jalisco, Michoacán, and Veracruz. He will join Chapman University as an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the fall.

To access an audio podcast of Mauricio's presentation, please click here.

Part of the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies Research Seminar Series.