Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007
From: Scott Gehlbach <gehlbach@polisci.wisc.edu>
Subject: correction re JRL#195 [re: Institutional Revolutionary Party]
Readers of JRL #195 may have noticed a Freudian slip in our commentary ("Knowing Who but Not Why") on Putin's nomination of Viktor Zubkov to replace Mikhail Fradkov as prime minister. In our haste to make the deadline for Thursday's edition of the Moscow Times, we referred to Mexico's Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) as the Institutionalized Ruling Party. This precisely describes the PRI during its period of hegemonic rule, but it is not the party's English name. That, of course, is the Institutional Revolutionary Party.
Scott Gehlbach
Assistant Professor of Political Science
University of Wisconsin--Madison
Konstantin Sonin
Assistant Professor
New Economic School/CEFIR