Last week, I received a nice email from Jose Luis Reyna, a sociologist at Colmex whom I’ve never met. He wrote to tell me that he’d cited my research in an op-ed piece that he wrote for El Milenio.
The opinion piece discusses claims that the Secretary of Social Development is using social programs for the poor to earn votes for the PAN. He cites a 2000 paper in which I demonstrate that similar programs were used in the early 1990s to get votes for the PRI. His citation and quote:
El Pronasol de Salinas funcionó con criterios políticos más que asistenciales y no estuvo “dirigido a las estados o regiones más necesitados del país”. (M.Dion. “La economía política del gasto social: el programa de Solidaridad de México, 1988.1994”. Estudios Sociológicos Núm. 53, mayo-agosto de 2000).
Nifty, huh?
That’s awesome–everyone is obsessed with being cited, but this sort of citation is the most satisfying.
Congratulations!
ROCK!