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August 2009: Volume 103, Issue 3
In This Issue
From Notes from the Editors:
This issue’s articles address two large and related themes in political science: (a) mutual accountability between leaders and followers and (b) constraints on political actions and decisions. Political scientists typically focus on electoral accountability
between politicians and voters. In our
lead article, however, “Religious Competition and Ethnic Mobilization in Latin America: Why the Catholic Church Promotes Indigenous Movements in Mexico,” Guillermo Trejo looks instead at how religious leaders respond to changes among their following. Roman Catholic clergy in Mexico, their previous religious monopoly vigorously challenged by mainline Protestant evangelism, answered with a new “market strategy,” namely secular advocacy of indigenous movements and ethnic identities. Trejo advances both quantitative and qualitative evidence to show that it was Protestant competition, and not the new doctrines of Vatican II, that moved Latin American Catholicism in this direction. Read the full in this issue »
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