Dear colleagues, I wanted to share this Washington Post, Monkey Cage piece I published today that explains the relationship between water (& infrastructure more broadly) and political calculations (clientelism), using themes from my research on Mexican cities to help explain what’s going on with the U.S.’s aging water infrastructure.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/02/28/its-not-just-lead-thats-poisoning-the-water-its-also-politics/?utm_term=.d8132a5a52ef If you have thoughts, please email me directly as I’d love to hear them. All my best, Veronica — Veronica Herrera, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University of Connecticut 365 Fairfield Way Unit 1024 Storrs, CT 06269-1024 [email protected] http://polisci.uconn.edu/person/veronica-herrera/ @veromsherrera On academic leave 2016-2017 Check out my new book, Water and Politics: Clientelism and Reform in Urban Mexico<https://www.amazon.com/Water-Politics-Clientelism-Reform-Mexico/dp/0472130323> (University of Michigan Press, 2017) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
