Mexico - The Struggle for Democratic Development 2e

2. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-520-24694-2
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 375 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 520 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Levy, Daniel C.

Bruhn, Kathleen

Weitere Mitwirkende

Zebadúa, Emilio

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Map

Foreword by Lorenzo Meyer

1. The Changing Course of Development

2. Legacies of Undemocratic Development
3. The Rise of Political Competition

4. Difficult Democracy

5. The State and the Market

6. Mexico in a U.S.-Led World

7. Bilateral Issues

8. The Struggle for Democratic Development

Notes

Selected References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel C. Levy, Distinguished Professor at the State University of New York, Albany, is the coauthor of Mexico: Paradoxes of Stability and Change (1983). Kathleen Bruhn, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is the author of Taking on Goliath: The Emergence of a New Left Party and the Struggle for Democracy in Mexico (1997). Emilio Zebadúa, Harvard University Ph.D. and ex-Secretary of Political Affairs for the state of Chiapas, is now a member of the Mexican Congress.