WEEK 6: Why Countries Become Democratic: Mexico

TUESDAY (10/23) IN CLASS: Film: Herod's Law READINGS FOR WEEK 6 Chappell Lawson, "Mexico's Unfinished Transition: Democratization and Authoritarian Enclaves in Mexico," Estudios Mexicanos/Mexican Studies, Summer 2000, 16(2): 267-287. Wayne A. Cornelius, Mexican Politics in Transition: The Breakdown of a One-Party Regime: 1-29, 51-98. Roderic Ai Camp, Politics in Mexico: The Decline of Authoritarianism: 179-205, 225-252. Freedom in the World, Chapter on Mexico. Web Links: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies

CAPTION: Mexican president Vincente Fox (left). Campaigning in Mexico 2000: Vincente Fox, Labastida, and Cardenas

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