Local Democracy In Modern Mexico

Author : Arturo Flores
Publisher : Arena books
ISBN 13 : 1906791902
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Local Democracy in Modern Mexico written by Arturo Flores and published by Arena books. This book was released on 2005-11-21 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of participatory democracy as it operates in practice in different regions of contemporary Mexico.

Author : Arturo Flores
Publisher : Arena books
ISBN 13 : 9780954316136
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Local Democracy in Modern Mexico written by Arturo Flores and published by Arena books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This in-depth study of local government in Mexico raises issues which go far beyond the territory it covers. It will be of absorbing interest to all students of local democracy and participatory methods, not only in Latin America, but in Western and Eastern Europe, the USA, Africa, Asia, and elsewhere, where initiatives and experimentation are driven by socio-economic change. Everywhere citizen participation has become an important part of the democratisation debate, and this is certainly the situation in contemporary Mexico. This book presents a revealing insight of the wide range of participatory mechanisms, including plebiscites, referenda and neighbourhood committees, which have been introduced by different political parties at the local level in Mexico. After presenting the overall picture, the author examines the implementation of the participatory agenda in three localities:

Author : Emily Edmonds-Poli
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442220279
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Mexican Politics written by Emily Edmonds-Poli and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-07-23 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in a thoroughly updated edition, this comprehensive and engaging text explores contemporary Mexico’s political development and examines the most important policy issues facing Mexico in the twenty-first century. The first half of the book traces Mexican political development after the 1910 Revolution and the creation of a single-party dominant system headed by the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party). It includes detailed treatment of the “classic” PRI system’s characteristics, as well as a thorough account of the PRI’s demise and an insightful examination of how the country’s institutions evolved under two successive PAN (National Action Party) presidential administrations before returning to PRI rule. The second half of the book analyzes the most pressing policy issues confronting Mexican society today—including macroeconomic growth and stability, poverty and inequality, the development of civil society, combating drug trafficking, strengthening the rule of law, and migration—and weighs their influence on the future of democracy in Mexico. The text to this revised edition is richly supplemented by new figures and tables that illustrate broad political, social, and economic trends and by boxes that provide in-depth treatment of a variety of subjects and concepts. Readers will find this widely praised book continues to be the most current and accessible work available on Mexico's politics and policy. A test bank for instructors is available through [email protected]. A website with study guides and links to online resources is available at https://contemporarymexicanpolitics.wordpress.com

Author : Julia Preston
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466822546
Total Pages : 782 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Opening Mexico written by Julia Preston and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2005-03-15 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of Mexico's political rebirth, by two pulitzer prize-winning reporters Opening Mexico is a narrative history of the citizens' movement which dismantled the kleptocratic one-party state that dominated Mexico in the twentieth century, and replaced it with a lively democracy. Told through the stories of Mexicans who helped make the transformation, the book gives new and gripping behind-the-scenes accounts of major episodes in Mexico's recent politics. Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party, led by presidents who ruled like Mesoamerican monarchs, came to be called "the perfect dictatorship." But a 1968 massacre of student protesters by government snipers ignited the desire for democratic change in a generation of Mexicans. Opening Mexico recounts the democratic revolution that unfolded over the following three decades. It portrays clean-vote crusaders, labor organizers, human rights monitors, investigative journalists, Indian guerrillas, and dissident political leaders, such as President Ernesto Zedillo-Mexico's Gorbachev. It traces the rise of Vicente Fox, who toppled the authoritarian system in a peaceful election in July 2000. Opening Mexico dramatizes how Mexican politics works in smoke-filled rooms, and profiles many leaders of the country's elite. It is the best book to date about the modern history of the United States' southern neighbor-and is a tale rich in implications for the spread of democracy worldwide.

Author : Dan La Botz
Publisher : South End Press
ISBN 13 : 9780896085077
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy in Mexico written by Dan La Botz and published by South End Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placing this book in the context of NAFTA and Mexican movements for social change, journalist and historian Dan La Botz unveils the forces behind Marcos and the Zapatista Rebellion of January 1994 and re-examines the circumstances surrounding the assasination of presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio. Contains a detailed analysis of how Ernesto Zedillo and the PRI won the August 21, 1994 elections and includes an examination of widespread electoral fraud. La Botz provides a first-hand account of the founding of National Democratic Converntion (CND), the new force for democracy and social justice in Mexico led by Rosario Ibarra. Ibarra is Mexico's leading human rights activist and first woman presidential candidate.

Author : Daniel C. Levy
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520932617
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mexico written by Daniel C. Levy and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-01-26 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging book provides a broad and accessible analysis of Mexico's contemporary struggle for democratic development. Now completely revised, it brings up to date issues ranging from electoral reform and accountability to drug trafficking, migration, and NAFTA. It also considers the rapidly changing role of Mexico's mass and elite groups, and its national institutions, including the media, the military, and the Church.

Author : Salvador Martí i Puig
Publisher : Institute of Latin American Studies
ISBN 13 : 9781908857064
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy in Mexico written by Salvador Martí i Puig and published by Institute of Latin American Studies. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracy in Mexico offers an important contribution to one of the more complex and multifaceted political processes of recent decades in Latin America: Mexico's democratization at the national and subnational levels. Topics include the quality of democracy, political participation, and insecurity. The book is based on two surveys carried out throughout Mexico in 2009 and 2011. The result of this collaboration is one of the few existing studies on democratic processes in the Mexican states.

Author : Matthew C. Gutmann
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520936639
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Romance of Democracy written by Matthew C. Gutmann and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-10-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Romance of Democracy gives a unique insider perspective on contemporary Mexico by examining the meaning of democracy in the lives of working-class residents in Mexico City today. A highly absorbing and vividly detailed ethnographic study of popular politics and official subjugation, the book provides a detailed, bottom-up exploration of what men and women think about national and neighborhood democracy, what their dreams are for a better society, and how these dreams play out in their daily lives. Based on extensive fieldwork in the same neighborhood he discussed in his acclaimed book The Meanings of Macho, Matthew C. Gutmann now explores the possibilities for political and social change in the world's most populous city. In the process he provides a new perspective on many issues affecting Mexicans countrywide.

Author : David A. Shirk
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781588262707
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mexico's New Politics written by David A. Shirk and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the key themes and dynamics of a century of political development in Mexico, David Shirk explores the evolution of the party that ultimately became the vehicle for Fox's success.

Author : Kenneth F. Johnson
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mexican Democracy written by Kenneth F. Johnson and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1978 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: