WEEK 12: Political Transition in Mexico

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REQUIRED
  • Chappell Lawson, "Mexico's Unfinished Transition: Democratization and Authoritarian Enclaves in Mexico," Estudios Mexicanos/Mexican Studies, Summer 2000.

  • Kathleen Bruhn, Taking on Goliath: The Emergence of a New Left Party and the Struggle for Democracy in Mexico (University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 1997): 39-44, 55-66.

  • Enrique Krauze, Mexico: Biography of Power: A History of Modern Mexico, 1810-1996 (New York: HarperPerennial, 1997): 549-557.

  • Juan Molinar Horcasitas, "Changing the Balance of Power in a Hegemonic Party System: The Case of Mexico," in Arend Lijphart and Carlos H. Waisman, eds., Institutional Design in New Democracies: Eastern Europe and Latin America (Boulder, CO.: Westview, 1996): 137-59.

  • Denise Dresser, "Mexico: The Decline of Dominant Party Rule," in Jorge I. Dominguez and Abraham F. Lowenthal, eds., Constructing Democratic Governance: Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean in the 1990s (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996): 159-84.

  • Kevin Middlebrook, "Political Liberalization in an Authoritarian Regime," in Guillermo O'Donnell, Philippe C. Schmitter, and Laurence Whitehead, eds., Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Latin America (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986): 123-45.

  • Chappell Lawson, Mexico's New Politics: The Elections of 1997," Journal of Democracy, October 1997, 8 (4):13-27.

  • P.J. O'Rourke, "Of Lunch and War," Rolling Stone, November 3, 1994, p. 83-90.
RECOMMENDED
  • Wayne Cornelius, Todd Eisenstadt, and Jane Hinley, eds., Subnational Politics and Democratization in Mexico (La Jolla: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, UCSD, 1999): 3-16, 269-341.

  • Roderic Ai Camp, "The Political Technocrat in Mexico and the Survival of the Political System," Latin Amercian Research Review, 1985, 20 (1):97-118.

  • Stephen D. Morris, "Political Reformism in Mexico: Past and Present," Latin American Research Review, 1993, 28 (2):191-205.

  • Wayne Cornelius, Mexican Politics in Transition: The Breakdown of a One-Party Dominant Regime (La Jolla: University of California at San Diego, 1996).

  • Kathleen Bruhn, Taking on Goliath: The Emergence of a New Left Party and the Struggle for Democracy in Mexico (University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 1997), rest of book.

 

President-elect Vincente Fox and Zedillo

  1. Pancho Villa in 1915
  2. Mexican women and children support the revolution
  3. Portrait of General Diaz in 1911
  4. Teenage revolutionary from the poor or working class
  5. Adult revolutionary President Zedillo (with glasses) and aide de camp.

 

 

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