Rethinking Local Governance: Lessons From a Collaborative Research Project With the Oaxaca Indigenous Binational Front

Jonathan Fox is Professor and Chair of the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies at UC Santa Cruz. He has published widely on the issues of democratization and the strengthening of civil society, particularly in Mexico. This research has been supported with grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Heinz Foundation, and the North-South Center. Of his many publications, he most recently co-edited Cross-Border Dialogues: Mexico-U.S. Social Movement Networking.