Bureaucratic compliance with Mexico's new access to information law

Critical Studies in Media Communication

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 121-137

  Gill, Juliet ^a,b   Hughes, Sallie ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Accountability; Democratization; Freedom of Information; Institutional Analysis; Latin America; Mexico; Secrecy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745007398     PISSN: 15295036     EISSN: 14795809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07393180500072038     Document Type: Article

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