Research Catalog

Title

Mexico's democratic challenges : politics, government, and society / edited by Andrew Selee and Jacqueline Peschard.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2010.

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Additional Authors

• Selee, Andrew D.
• Peschard, Jacqueline.

Description

xvi, 326 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

• Only a decade ago, Mexico saw the end of seventy years of single-party hegemonic rule and the first free and fair election in its history. How has the cauntry evolved since then, and what is the status of its democracy today. In this comprehensive new collection, usable in undergraduate instruction, a group of distinguished scholars examine recent political developments in Mexica.
• "Andrew Sclee and Jacqueline Peschard have brought together a group of academics to analyze the evolution of the political system, the changes that have occurred between the state and society, and the way in which different institutions are experiencing that transition. This is necessary not only to understand what has changed but also to think about the challenges that come from our budding democracy."--Jose Woldenberg former President of Mexico's Federal Electoral Institute, from the foreword.
• "This book broadens our understanding of democracy in Mexico beyond the electoral arena and identifies some of the main challenges for defending and expanding democratic rights."--Neil Harvey, New Mexico State University.
• "This edited collection brings the reader up to date on the numerous political and institutional reforms that have occurred since Mexico's formal transition to democracy in 2000. It offers the longest view yet on the underpinnings of this country's democratization process."--Carol Wise, University of Southern California --Book Jacket.

Subject

• Democracy > Mexico
• Political participation > Mexico
• Civil society > Mexico
• Mexico > Politics and government

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / José Woldenberg -- Mexico's democratic challenges / Andrew Selee and Jacqueline Peschard -- Part I: The evolving political system -- Citizens' values and beliefs toward politics: is democracy growing attitudinal roots? / Alejandro Moreno -- The restructuring of the party system in the wake of the 2006 elections / Jean-François Prud'homme -- Federal and local electoral institutions: from a national to a fragmented system / Jacqueline Peschard -- The 2006 elections: democratization and social protest / John M. Ackerman -- Part II: Institutions in transition? -- Executive-legislative relations: continuity or change? / Maria Amparo Casar -- Transparency reforms: theory and practice / Jonathan Fox and Libby Haight -- Reforming civil-military relations during democratization / Raúl Benítez Manaut -- Federalism and the reform of political power / Tonatiuh Guillén López -- The justice system, 2000-2007 / José Ramón Cossío Díaz -- Part III: The changing nature of state-socity relations -- Taming the diaspora: migrants and the state, 1986-2006 / David R. Ayón -- Struggle and resistance: the nation's Indians in transition / Rodolfo Stavenhagen -- The role of civil society / Mariclaire Acosta -- Churches, believers, and democracy / Roberto Blancarte -- Democratic antipoetry / Jesús Silva-Herzog Márquez.

ISBN

• 9780804771610 (hardcover)
• 0804771618 (hardcover)
• 9780804771627 (pbk.)
• 0804771626 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2010004898

OCLC

526809148

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library