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Office: 672 ICC
Office Hours: TR 11:30 - 1:00 & by appt.
Telephone: (202) 687-6221
Fax: (202) 687-5858
E-mail: baileyjo@georgetown.edu
Areas of Specialization:Comparative Government, Latin America
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John Bailey is Professor of Government and Foreign Service and Director
of the Mexico Project at the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown
University, where he has taught since 1970. Following study and fieldwork
in Peru and Colombia, his research after the late 1970s focused largely
on Mexico. He has published occasional papers, articles and book chapters
on a variety of policy issues in Mexican politics, including agriculture,
public budgeting, decentralization, education, electoral reform, government-business
relations and social security. During 1980-90 he directed the Mexico Seminar
at the U.S. Department of State's Foreign Service Institute. His book,
Governing Mexico: The Statecraft of Crisis Management (St. Martin's
Press, 1988), draws together policy and political themes in the context
of democratic transition. Since the early 1990s he has concentrated on
issues of national and public security in the bilateral relationship and
in the Western Hemisphere more broadly. Recent edited books include Strategy
and Security in U.S.-Mexico Relations: Beyond the Cold War (University
of California-San Diego, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, 1996; with Sergio
Aguayo); Organized Crime and Democratic Governability: Mexico and the
U.S.-Mexican Borderlands (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000; with
Roy Godson); Transnational Crime & Public Security: Challenges
to Mexico and the United States (University of California-San Diego,
Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, 2004; with Jorge Chabat); and U.S.-Mexico
Economic Integration: NAFTA at the Grassroots (LBJ School of Public
Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, 2001). His current projects include
an edited volume on public security and police reform in the Americas
(with Lucia Dammert of the University of Chile) and a book-length study
on the relationships between crime, corruption, violence and democracy
in the Latin America. Prof. Bailey received his A.B. with High Distinction
from Indiana University (1966) and his Ph.D. in Political Science from
the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1972).
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Course Schedule
Spring 2005:
GOVT 450 Democratic Consolidation in Latin America (Syllabus)
The course will concentrate on themes of political culture and
institutions as related to rule of law, and effectiveness of representation
and policy-making in legislatures, executive branch agencies and
judiciaries and to center-local relations in both federal and unitary
systems. Some emphasis on the larger countries in the region. A
seminar format will be used.
GOVT 504 Corruption in Developing Countries (Syllabus)
Corruption has become the litmus test for the viability of democratic
institutions, the ability for countries to economically develop
and the effective influence of society in policy making. In the
past, some policy science has justified political corruption as
necessary for economic development and has tacitly encouraged its
"natural" place in third world societies. This course
examines (1) scholarly and policy perspectives on corruption; (2)
issues of corruption in partisan politics and policy formulation;
(3) varieties of corruption in program administration at the national,
sub-government and independent agency levels; and (4) agreed upon
tools and remedies employed in anti-corruption efforts by international,
national and civil society actors, with special emphasis on transparency
and accountability mechanisms. Emphasis will be placed on developing
countries, although we will include coverage of post-industrial
and post-Soviet cases as well. Students will write two short papers
and a substantial research paper or critique of literature.
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Recently Taught Courses
Fall 2004:
On leave.
Spring 2004:
On leave.
Spring 2003:
GOVT 450 Democratic Consolidation in Latin America (Syllabus)
GOVT 504 Corruption in Developing Countries (Syllabus)
Fall 2002:
GOVT 121 Comparative Political Systems (Syllabus)
An introductory survey of issues, concepts, and approaches related
to comparative political analysis. Following an initial section
on comparative method, the course takes up four sets of issues:
origins of the modern state (with emphasis on factors that differentiate
liberal pluralists from authoritarian paths); (2) political economy
and development (with attention to challenges distinctive to advanced
industrial versus developing countries); (3) governance and policy-making
(with a focus on institutional arrangements of contemporary governments);
and (4) representation and participation (with special attention
to how societal cleavages, such as region and ethnicity, are reflected
in structures of participation, especially political party systems).
In each of the four issues sets we will compare and contrast a selection
of countries, with comparisons drawn from Great Britain, Japan,
Russia , Mexico, Nigeria, India, China, and Brazil. Grades will
be based on two in -class midterm exams and a comprehensive in-class
final. There is no required discussion section; special review sessions
will be scheduled to prepare for examinations.
GOVT 452 Crime, Corruption & Democracy (Syllabus)
The course will explore conceptual-theoretical and practical, policy-oriented
issues concerning crime, corruption and democractic governance.
Our central organizing questions are: What are the nature of and
relationships between common crime and organized crime? Between
these and broader problems of private and official corruption? In
what respects and to what degree does crime threaten the creation
or maintenance of democratic institutions and forms of governance?
What measures can be taken by governments and/or actors in civil
society to cope with such threats? What kinds of responses can be
mounted to confront the transnational character of criminal activities?
We shall start our inquiry along thematic lines, beginning with
conceptual and theoretical issues and moving on to consider different
types of organized crime (e.g. , drug, trafficking, illegal migration)
and forms of corruption. Then we shall look at three different types
of settings to explore the crime-politics nexus: (1) industrialized
democracies; (2) post-Communist societies, and (3) developing countries.
Prerequisites : Comparative Political Systems Govt.t.121) and International
Relations Govt.t. 0060 or their equivalents.
Spring 2002:
GOVT 121 Comparative Political Systems (Syllabus)
GOVT 450 Democratic Consolidation in Latin America (Syllabus)
Fall 2001:
GOVT 121 Comparative Political Systems (Syllabus)
GOVT 452 Crime/Corruption/Democracy (Syllabus)
See above.
Spring 2001:
GOVT 121 Comparative Political Systems (Syllabus)
GOVT 450 Democratic Consolidation in Latin America (Syllabus)
Fall 2000:
GOVT 452 Crime/Corruption/Democracy (Syllabus)
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