A Comparison of Top-down and Bottom-up Community Development Interventions in Rural Mexico

In this brief (80 pages of text) presentation of his dissertation research, Larrison (social work, U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) describes findings linked to his field research in villages in Veracruz, Mexico. The theory, method, and effectiveness of top-down versus bottom-up development are described at length. The approaches of several organizations involved in rural development in Mexico are then described more briefly. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR