Roundtable: Changing Presidential Approval through Democratization in Mexico: the Different Effects of Corruption before and after the 2000 Transition (Bloomsbury Academic)

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Brief Overview

Democratization changes public opinion. By using Mexico as a case study, the author argues that after the 2000 democratic transition, the handling of corruption has been as important, if not more so, than the economy for presidential approval.

Section

• 07. Public Opinion

Chair

• Michael S. Lewis-Beck, University of Iowa

Participants

• Karleen Jones West, SUNY College at Geneseo

• Thad Kousser, University of California, San Diego

• James A. McCann, Purdue University, Main Campus

• Rodrigo Salvador Castro Cornejo, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

• Ricardo Roman Gómez-Vilchis, Metropolitan Autonomous University