Gov 312L: The Politics of the United States and Mexico (Spring 2007)Professor Kenneth Greene Teaching Assistant: Rodrigo Velázquez Class meets: T TH 11:00-12:30Office: 4.112 Batts Office: 1.118 Batts Mezes 1.306232-7206; [email protected];http://www.la.utexas.edu/[email protected] Unique code: 38690Office hours: T TH 2:30-4:00 & appt Office Hours: TBAThe United States and Mexico have always enjoyed (or suffered through) a close relationship. Since the 1980s, this relationship has most clearly played out over the various kinds of cross-border flows, including trade, (im)migration, and drugs. After an extended introduction to Mexico’s post-revolutionary political and economic development, we will turn to each of these transnational flows, highlighting both the problems and potential benefitsto increasing closeness between the two countries. Course requirements: Students will take two midterm exams and a final exam. The midterms will include multiple choice questions and short answers that will require analysis of the material (not simply recall). The final exam will be entirely multiple choice and will be scheduled during finals week. The final grade for the course will be determined as follows:Midterm 1 30%Midterm 2 35%Final Exam 35%Make-up exams. Early final exams will not be given. One midterm exam may be made-up if missed for medical reasons under the following conditions: 1) You must have a note from a doctor, 2) you must contact me before the exam (by e-mail, telephone, or in-person) unless you are not conscious. If you contact me after the exam has begun, you will not be allowed a make-up exam and your grade will be a zero. 3) The make-up exam will be of any format that I choose, including all essay or all oral. 4) The make-up exam must take place as soon as possible afterthe originally scheduled exam and before the graded exams are handed back to the class. Once the exams are handed back, a make-up exam will not be possible. Due to the large class size, two make-up exam times will be scheduled for the week following each midterm – individually-scheduled make-up exams will not be possible. Readings: Required books available for purchase at the University Coop on Guadalupe. The required course packet available for purchase at Speedway Copy in the Dobie Mall.- Daniel C. Levy and Kathleen Bruhn, Mexico: The Struggle for Democratic Development. Berkeley CA: University of California Press, Second edition, 2006.- Peter Andreas, Border Games: Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide. Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 2000.- Course packet for purchase at Speedway Copy in the Dobie Mall. Two copies will be on reserve at PCL.Required readings are listed first for each lecture; recommended readings follow but are not in the packet. A large amount of useful information is available online, and through video and film. Where helpful I have listed these sources as recommended.Special needs. I will make every effort to accommodate special needs, including official university accommodations,religious holidays, and unavoidable personal and family issues. Please communicate with me about these issues as soon as possible as they arise.Academic dishonesty. Don’t do it! I will punish academic dishonesty as severely as permitted by the university. If inany doubt, please review the university’s policy at http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/sjs/scholdis.php Class etiquette – my responsibilities. I will arrive on time, deliver lectures with enthusiasm and energy, encourage you to ask questions, think critically, and engage with the material. I will make myself available for questions and consultations during office hours and by appointment as time allows. I will turn off my cell phone when entering class. I will be respectful of you and of the class.Class etiquette – your responsibilities. I expect that you want to learn. Principally, this means that you engage the lectures and readings with enthusiasm and energy. I encourage you to wrestle with the material, criticize it and my lectures, and ask questions. In addition, I expect that you will arrive on time, turn off your cell phones when you enter the classroom, complete assignments on time, and show respect for the teaching assistant, your fellow students, and the learning process.1Problems and Potential in United States-Mexico Relations (January 16)- Jorge Castañeda, “Toward a New Bilateral Relationship” in Joseph Tulchin and Andrew Selee (eds.) Mexico’s Politics and Society in Transition. Boulder CO: Lynne Rienner, 2003, pp. 1-4.- Jorge I. Dominguez and Rafael Fernández de la Castro, The United Status and Mexico. New York: Routledge, 2001, pp. 1-15.- Tim Weiner, “Old Gringos and Old Grudges: This Land Is Their Land” The New York Times, January 9, 2004, two pages.- Highly Recommended and included in course packet: Abraham Lowenthal, “United States—Latin American Relations at the Century’s Turn: Managing the ‘Intermestic’ Agenda” in Albert Fishlow & James Jones (eds) The United States and Latin America. New York: Norton, 1999, pp. 109-35.- Recommended: Levy and Bruhn, “Bilateral Issues,” pp. 210-257.I. Introduction to Mexico’s Political and Economic DevelopmentThe Challenge of 20th Century Political and Economic Development (January 18)- Levy and Bruhn, “Legacies of Undemocratic Development,” pp. 35-65- Recommended Readings: Judith Adler Hellman, Mexico in Crisis. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1988, pp. 3-31; Roger Hansen, The Politics of Mexican Development. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1971, pp. 11-40.Establishing Single-Party Dominance: Managing Elite-Mass Relations (January 23)- Judith Adler Hellman, pp. 33-57 (emphasis on pp. 40-57) AND pp. 135-172.- Recommended Readings: On labor: Ruth Berins Collier, The Contradictory Alliance, pp. 38-70; Kevin Middlebrook, The Paradox of Revolution. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995, pp. 72-106; Judith Teichman, Judith. Privatization and Political Change in Mexico. University Park, PN: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995, pp. 48-68. On peasants Steve Sanderson, Agrarian Populism and the Mexican State. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981, pp. 53-70 and pp. 78-109; Judith Adler Hellman, Mexico in Crisis, pp. 84-102 (emphasis on 91-102). On presidentialism and presidential succession: Garrido, Luis Javier, “The Crisis of Presidencialismo” in Wayne Cornelius,