Organized crime & democratic governability : Mexico and the U.S.-Mexican borderlands

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Title:

Organized crime & democratic governability : Mexico and the U.S.-Mexican borderlands

Author:

Bailey, John J.

Publication Information:

[Pittsburgh] : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2000]

Physical Description:

ix, 271 pages ; 24 cm.

Series:

Pitt Latin American series

Pitt Latin American series.

Language:

English

Contents:

The nexus of organized crime and politics in Mexico / Stanley A. Pimentel -- Organized crime and the organization / Luis Astorga -- Organized crime and political campaign finance in Mexico / Leonardo Curzio -- Scope and limits of an act of good faith: the PAN's experience at the head of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic / Sigrid Arzt -- Containing armed groups, drug trafficking, and organized crime in Mexico: the role of the military / Raúl Benítez Manaut -- The historical dynamics of smuggling in the U.S.-Mexican border region, 1550-1998: reflections on markets, cultures, and bureaucracies / Louis R. Sadler -- Organized crime and democratic governability at the U.S.-Mexico border: border zone dynamics / Francisco Javier Molina Ruiz -- Mexican drug syndicates in California / Elias Castillo and Peter Unsinger.

Subject Term:

Organized crime -- Mexico.

Organized crime -- Political aspects -- Mexico.

Organized crime -- Mexican-American Border Region.

Geographic Term:

Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1988-

Added Author:

Bailey, John J.

Godson, Roy, 1942-

ISBN:

9780822941460

9780822957584