Campaigning on Public Security in Latin America: Obstacles to Success

Crime and violence have made public security a major concern to voters throughout Latin America. Existing research predicts that such widespread concerns should make public security a consistently successful issue in presidential election campaigns. Yet recent empirical reality in Latin America has been more varied. This study argues that success on public security is not so automatic. Human rights concerns combine with low trust in security forces to make success on security contingent on the correct conditions. Two key conditions affect the use of the issue: the degree to which security threats are organized and the degree to which recent repression has occurred. Then, winning votes depends on two further conditions: having a civilian background and a campaign that balances security with other issues. Together, these factors explain the dramatic variation in success, and suggest a key change from Latin America's past.     

Crouching Fox, Hidden Eagle: Drug trafficking and transnational security – A perspective from the Tijuana-San Diego border

The combination of mobilizingfor homeland protection and conducting amajor military campaign in Afghanistanunderscores the profound securityimplications of drug trafficking. In thecase of Mexico, drug smuggling has evolvedunder the influence of several dynamics,and has become particularly threatening tothe state and society in the last ten totwenty years with the cocaine boom. Thehistoric ability of the Mexican politicalsystem to manage corruption has diminishedif not collapsed as cartels have largelymoved from a relationship of symbiosis withand subordination to the authorities to oneof dominance and intimidation of them. TheUS has facilitated this process in severalunfortunate ways beyond enormous drugdemand. Recent developments, including amore constructive relationship between theUS and Mexico following the elections ofFox and then Bush, offer some hope that thefuture of Mexico will follow the successesof the anti-mafia campaign in Italy morethan the ongoing disaster of theanti-guerrilla campaign in Colombia.     

合同理论的丰富性

导论:合同学术的代际转换 当我在大学讲授诚信履约原则的时候,我安排了两位著名的合同法学者--罗伯特·萨默斯(Robert Summers)和史蒂文·伯顿(Steven Burton)进行了一场学术交流,这就是人们后来所了解的"萨默斯--伯顿"争论.     

Self-Reported Delinquency and Alienation: A Study of Juvenile Crime

Based on a probability sample of 7542 from the seventh, ninth, 11th grade students of the Toledo metropolitan area, this study, using self-reported delinquency, investigated the relationship between alienation and deviant behavior. A positive association between alienation (normlessness and societal estrangement) and self-reported delinquency were observed. The degree of association and the direction still maintained when controlled for the age and sex of the students.