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The Center for U.S. - Mexican Studies is one of the most active U.S. publishers of research on Mexico and U.S. - Mexican relations. Its peer-reviewed monographs and anthologies meet the highest academic standards and make a substantial intellectual contribution to the literature on Mexico. Center publications have been adopted for classroom use at colleges and universities throughout the United States, Mexico, Canada, Great Britain, and Japan. We invite you to browse our catalog of over 150 titles or to choose from some of the featured titles.
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Environmental degradation is sparking a worldwide debate on strategies for achieving a sustainable world. The global and regional views and interests voiced in this debate are extremely complex and diverse, and there is a need to critically analyze how the agenda of sustainable development is being conceived, shaped, and implemented in light of the power strategies in play in the new geopolitics of economic and ecological globalization.
This volume considers what implications the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development may hold for issues of equity and sustainable development in the U.S.-Mexico border region. The regional focus reflects that fact that subnational regions on the juncture of the industrial and developing worlds most clearly illustrate the problems inherent in the current economic paradigm and the obstacles to achieving a sustainable development. |
Núria Homedes and Antonio Ugalde, editors
$24.95 paperback, $56.95 hardcover
Has Mexico, twenty years after beginning the process of decentralizing its health system, realized the anticipated benefits of increased community participation and improvements in efficiency and quality? Addressing this question, Decentralizing Health Services in Mexico presents a thorough historical and theoretical grounding, as well as representative case studies of decentralization at the state and local levels.
The authors combine qualitative and quantitative data in their examination of the transfer of authority over fiscal, human, and physical resources in the health sector. The result is a major contribution to the ongoing debate over the advantages and disadvantages of decentralization in varying political, cultural, and economic contexts.
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Reforming the Administration of Justice in Mexico
Wayne Cornelius & David Shirk
$37.50 paperback
This landmark study examines the challenges Mexico faces in reforming the administration of its justice system—a critical undertaking for the consolidation of democracy, the well-being of Mexican citizens, and U.S.-Mexican relations. The result of over four years of research from the Project on Reforming the Administration of Justice in Mexico, this bi-national collaborative initiative brought together U.S. and Mexican scholars, policy makers, law enforcement officials, lawyers, activists, and other experts to analyze diverse topics in the administration of justice. The outcome of the study presents for the first time an up-to-date analysis of the functioning and imperfections of the Mexican justice system.
The contributors cover five key themes in Mexican justice reform: crime and criminology, policing and police reform, legal actors and judicial reform, civic mobilization and oversight in the justice system, and practical policy recommendations for future improvement of the justice system. In addition, they present new sources of empirical data, useful case studies evaluating state and local level challenges, and analyses of best practices.
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