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	Carlos A. Mendoza Ph.D. Candidate University of Notre Dame Department of Political Science 217 O'Shaughnessy Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556 See Curriculum Vitae in English [PDF format] [MS-Word] Ver Curriculum Vitae en Español [PDF format] [MS-Word] Book Coedited with Edelberto Torres-Rivas, Los Linchamientos: ¿Barbarie o Justicia Popular? (Guatemala: FLACSO, 2003). See book review See article: “Violencia colectiva en Guatemala: Una aproximación teórica al problema de los linchamientos” [PDF format] Working Papers Democracy Assistance to Post-Conflict Guatemala: Finding a balance between details and determinants. Coauthor with Dinorah Azpuru, Evelyn Blanck, and Ligia Blanco [PDF format] Guatemala: más allá de los Acuerdos de Paz. La democracia en un país multicultural [PDF format] Articles “Alternativas Teoricas para explicar el fenomeno de los linchamientos.” Apuntes de Economia y Politica, Vol. 3 No. 18 [PDF format] Internet Resources Lynching mobs in Guatemala http://linchamientos.blogspot.com/ Multicultural Democracy http://democraciamulticultural.blogspot.com/ Guatemala http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/ca/guatemala/ Working as a TA Latin American Politics http://www.nd.edu/~cmendoz1/lap/index.html The European Union http://www.nd.edu/~cmendoz1/europe/	Research in Progress Structural causes and diffusion processes of collective violence: Understanding lynch mobs in post-conflict Guatemala (LASA 2006) [PDF format] [MS-Word] See data on lynch mobs in Guatemala: http://www.nd.edu/~cmendoz1/datos/ Conferences See video on “Social Norms, Formal Rules and Violence” in Spanish [Windows Media Player] Dissertation Proposal Political Elites and Indigenous Peoples: Explaining Multicultural Institutions in Central America [PDF format] [MS-Word] Papers in Progress Beyond the electoral ritual: Expanding the nationhood in favor of the state’s legitimacy [PDF format] Monetary authority: Similar beginning but different trajectories. Bolivia, Ecuador, and Guatemala in comparative perspective [PDF format] The Institutionalization of the Party System in Guatemala [PDF format] Indigenous Struggles for Political Recognition and Participation in Guatemala: Long Walk to Democratic Consolidation [PDF format] The Indigenous Movement in Guatemala: Building a political identity. From local peasants to Mayan people [PDF format] Book Reviews Kurt Weyland, The Politics of Market Reform in Fragile Democracies: Argentina, Brazil, Peru, and Venezuela. Princeton University Press, 2002. [PDF format] Susan Stokes, Mandates and Democracy: Neoliberalism by Surprise in Latin America. Cambridge University Press, 2001. [PDF format] Charles D. Brockett, Political Movements and Violence in Central America. Cambridge University Press, 2005. [HTML format] Undergraduate Thesis Aproximación al funcionamiento de los mercados indígenas de Guatemala [HTML format] [PDF format] Updated: September 07, 2006