Co-author [with Xóchitl Bada] “Migrant Civic Engagement,” in Irene Bloemraad and Kim Voss, eds., Rallying for Immigrant Rights , Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.

Co-author [with Libby Haight] “El condicionamiento político del acceso a programas sociales en México,” (“The Political Conditioning of Access to Social Programs in Mexico”) in* *David Gómez Alvarez, ed., Candados y contrapesos: La protección de los programas, políticas y derechos sociales en México y América Latina, Mexico City: ITESO/United Nations Development Programme, 2009.

Co-author [with Carlos Garcia Jimenez and Libby Haight] “Rural Democratization in Mexico's Deep South: Grassroots Right-to-Know Campaigns in Guerrero,” Journal of Peasant Studies, 36(2), 2009.

“Exit followed by Voice: Mapping Mexico's Emerging Migrant Civil Society,” in Carmen Diana Deere and Fred Royce, eds., Alternative Visions of Development: Rural Social Movements in Latin America, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009.

Co-author [with Xóchitl Bada] “Migrant Organization and Hometown Impacts in Rural Mexico,” Journal of Agrarian Change, 8(2-3), May, 2008.

“Transparencia y rendición de cuentas," (”Transparency and Accountability") in John Ackerman, ed., Más Allá del Acceso a la Información: Transparencia, Rendición de Cuentas y Estado de Derecho, Mexico City: Siglo XXI/Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas, UNAM/CETA, 2008.

Accountability Politics: Power and Voice in Rural Mexico, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Co-editor [with Libby Haight, Helena Hofbauer, and Tania Sánchez] Mexico's Right-to-Know Reforms: Civil Society Assesments, Mexico City and Washington, D.C., Woodrow Wilson Center/FUNDAR, 2007, www.fundar.org.mx [published in Spanish as Derecho a saber: Balance y perpectivas cívicas]

“Rural Democratization and Decentralization at the State-Society Interface: What counts as 'Local' Government in the Mexican Countryside?,” Journal of Peasant Studies, 34(3-4), July-October, 2007.

“The Uncertain Relationship between Transparency and Accountability,” Development in Practice, 17(4-5) August, 2007.

Co-editor [with Xóchitl Bada and Andrew Selee] Invisible No More: Mexican Migrant Civic Participation in the United States, Washington, D.C. Woodrow Wilson Center, Mexico Institute/University of California, Santa Cruz, Latin American and Latino Studies, August, 2006, www.wilsoncenter.org/migrantparticipation [bilingual edition]

“Repensar lo rural ante la globalización: La sociedad civil migrante", Migración y Desarrollo, No. 5, 2006, www.migracionydesarrollo.org

“Reframing Mexican Migration as a Multi-Ethnic Process” Latino Studies, 4(1), 2006.

"Lessons from Action-Research Partnerships,” Development in Practice, 16 (1), Feb., 2006.

“Sociedad civil y políticas de rendición de cuentas, ”Perfiles Latinoamericanos, No. 27, January, 2006.

“Unpacking Transnational Citizenship,” Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 8, 2005.

"Mapping Mexican Migrant Civil Society." Center for Global, International and Regional Studies, September, 2005.

“The Politics of North American Economic Integration,” Latin American Research Review, 39(1), February, 2004.

Co-editor [with Gaspar Rivera-Salgado], Indigenous Mexican Migrants in the United States, La Jolla: University of California, San Diego, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies & Center for US-Mexican Studies (2004).

[Also published in Spanish as Indígenas mexicanos migrantes en los Estados Unidos, Mexico City: Editorial Miguel Angel Porrúa/Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, 2004].

“Advocacy Research and the World Bank: Propositions for Discussion,” Development in Practice, 13(5), November, 2003.

[Also published in Marc Edelman and Angelique Haugerud, eds., The Anthropology of Development and Globalization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neo-Liberalism, Cambridge: Blackwell, 2004]

“De la teoría a la práctica del capital social: El Banco Mundial en el campo mexicano,” Foro Internacional, 43(2), April-June, 2003.

Co-editor [with Dana Clark and Kay Treakle], Demanding Accountability: Civil Society Claims and the World Bank Inspection Panel, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003.

[Also published in India by Rainbow Publishers, with a preface by Smitu Kothari, 2003 and in Spanish translation as Derecho a exigir respuestas: Reclamos de la sociedad civil ante el Panel de Inspección del Banco Mundial (Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI, 2005)]

Co-editor [with David Brooks], Cross-Border Dialogues: US-Mexico Social Movement Networking, La Jolla: University of California, San Diego, Center for US-Mexican Studies, 2002.

“La relación recíproca entre la participación ciudadana y la rendición de cuentas: La experiencia de los Fondos Municipales en el México rural," Política y Gobierno, 9(1), January, 2002.

“Evaluación de las coaliciones binacionales de la sociedad civil a partir de la experiencia México-Estados Unidos,” Revista Mexicana de Sociología, 63(3), 2001.

“Vertically Integrated Policy Monitoring: A Tool for Civil Society Policy Advocacy,” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 30(3), Sept., 2001.

“Los flujos y reflujos de préstamos sociales y ambientales del Banco Mundial en México" (“The Ebbs and Flows of the World Bank’s Social and Environmental Lending to Mexico”) in Alejandro Alvarez Béjar, Norma Klahn, Federico Manchon, and Pedro Castillo, eds., Las nuevas fronteras del siglo XXI: Dimensiones culturales, políticas y socioeconómicas de las relaciones Mexico-Estados Unidos, Mexico City: UNAM/La Jornada Ediciones, 2000.

Co-author [with John Gershman], “The World Bank and Social Capital: Lessons from Ten Rural Development Projects in Mexico and the Philippines,” Policy Sciences, 33(3 & 4), 2000.

[Also published as “Enabling Social Capital? Lessons from World Bank Rural Development Projects in Mexico and the Philippines,” in Anthony Bebbington, Michael Woolcock, Scott Guggenheim, Elizabeth Olson, eds., The Search for Empowerment: Social Capital as Idea and Practice at the World Bank, West Hartford: Kumarian, 2006]

“The World Bank Inspection Panel: Lessons from the First Five Years,” Global Governance, 6(3), July-September, 2000.

[Also published in Portuguese in Flavia Barros, ed., Banco Mundial, Participação, Transparência e Responsabilização, Brasilia: Rede Brasil sobre Instituições Financeiras Multilaterais, 2001; revised versions published in Jonathan Pincus and Jeffrey Winters, eds., Reinventing the World Bank, Ithaca: Cornell University, 2002, and in Alison Brysk, ed., Globalization and Human Rights, Berkeley: University of California, 2002]

"State-Society Relations in Mexico: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Trends." Latin American Research Review, 35(2), 2000.

Principal co-editor [with L. David Brown] The Struggle for Accountability: The World Bank, NGOs and Grassroots Movements, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998.

“Comparative Reflections on the African Dilemma: The Interdependent Democratization of States and Civil Societies,” in Political Power and Social Theory, Vol. 12, Stamford: JAI Press, 1998.

“The World Bank and Social Capital: Contesting the Concept in Practice,” Journal of International Development, 9(7), November/December, 1997.

"Transparency for Accountability: Civil Society Monitoring of Multilateral Development Bank Anti-Poverty Projects," Development in Practice, 7(2), May, 1997.

"How Does Civil Society Thicken? The Political Construction of Social Capital in Rural Mexico," World Development, 24(6), June, 1996.

Co-author [with Josefina Aranda], "Los Fondos Municipales de Solidaridad y la participación comunitaria en Oaxaca," Revista Mexicana de Sociología, 58(3), July-September, 1996.

Principal co-author [with Josefina Aranda], Decentralization and Rural Development in Mexico: Community Participation in Oaxaca's Municipal Funds Program, La Jolla: University of California, San Diego, Center for US-Mexican Studies Contemporary Monograph Series, 1996.

"Governance and Development in Rural Mexico: State Intervention and Public Accountability." Journal of Development Studies, 32(1), October, 1995 (winner, “Dudley Seers” Best Article Prize for Vol. 32).

"The Crucible of Local Politics," NACLA Report on the Americas, 29(1), July/August, 1995.

Co-author [with Luis Hernández], “Lessons from the Mexican Elections,” Dissent, Winter, 1995.

"The Cultural Implications of Democracy, Empowerment and Citizenship," Presented to the World Commission on Culture and Development, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, April, 1995.

"The Roots of Chiapas," The Boston Review, 19(2), April/May, 1994.

Co-editor [with Wayne Cornelius & Ann Craig], Transforming State-Society Relations in Mexico: The National Solidarity Strategy, La Jolla: University of California San Diego, Center for U.S.- Mexican Studies, 1994.

"Latin America's Emerging Local Politics," Journal of Democracy, 5(2), April, 1994.

"The Difficult Transition from Clientelism to Citizenship: Lessons from Mexico," World Politics, 46(2), January 1994.

Co-author [with Luis Hernández],"Mexico's Difficult Democracy: Grassroots Movements, NGOs and Local Government," Alternatives, 17(2), Spring, 1992.

"Democratic Rural Development: Leadership Accountability in Regional Peasant Organizations," Development and Change, 23(2), April, 1992.

The Politics of Food in Mexico: State Power and Social Mobilization, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.

Editor, The Challenge of Rural Democratization: Perspectives From Latin America and the Philippines, London: Frank Cass, 1990.

[also published as The Journal of Development Studies, 26(4) July, l990]

Co-author [with Luis Hernández], "Offsetting the `Iron Law of Oligarchy': The Ebb and Flow of Leadership Accountability in a Regional Peasant Organization," Grassroots Development, 13(2), 1989.

(en español: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/8xw0j7df )

Co-author [with Gustavo Gordillo], "Between State and Market: The Campesinos' Quest for Autonomy in Rural Mexico," in Wayne Cornelius, Judith Gentleman, and Peter Smith, eds., _Mexico's Alternative Political Futures_, La Jolla: Center for U.S.- Mexican Studies, 1989 (2nd printing, 1990).

(en español: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/8xw0j7df )

"Agrarian Reform and Populist Politics," Latin American Perspectives, 12(3), Summer, 1985.

Third co-author [with James Austin and Walter Kruger], "The Role of the Revolutionary State in the Nicaraguan Food System," World Development, 13(1), 1985.

“Has Brazil Moved Toward State Capitalism?” Latin American Perspectives, 7(1), Winter, 1980.

Nonprofit board memberships and advisory service

Oxfam America (board of directors, since 2006)

FUNDAR, Centro de Análisis e Investigación [Mexico City], (board of directors, since 2006)

Frente Indígena de Organizaciones Binacionales [California/Oaxaca] (advisor since 1998)

Bank Information Center [Washington, DC] (board of directors, 1999 - 2009, board chair 2000-2009)

Pesticide Action Network [San Francisco] (board of directors, 1996-2003)

Trasparencia [Oaxaca] (research advisor, 1995-2005)