This engaging and cogently argued book provides a uniquely broad and accessible analysis of Mexico's contemporary struggle for democratic development. Linking Mexico's current state to Mexico-US and other international considerations, Daniel C. Levy and Kathleen Bruhn, collaborating with Emilio Zebadua, offer rich perspectives from both sides of the border. They examine the relationship between democratization and economic change in an internationalized setting. Linking events of recent years - including the most democratic presidential election in Mexican history and a peaceful change of party rule - to pivotal episodes of Mexico's past, the authors focus on politics but also consider critical historical and economic dimensions. Authoritarian rule in Mexico's past brought political stability and economic growth, but democracy has become central to reconstructing those historic achievements. Democracy is also important for Mexico to address tragically neglected aspects of development, especially inequality. Yet there are many obstacles to democratization, which in itself does not guarantee broadly based development.
Both the challenges and the opportunities for Mexico are intertwin
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"Levy and Bruhn's book is a well-balanced portrayal of Mexico's contemporary history, and of the role played by the United States. A must for those interested in understanding what is going on in Mexico." -Sergio Aguayo, author of Myths and (Mis)Perceptions:Changing U.S. Elite Visions of Mexico; "A wonderful guide to the social, economic, and political changes in contemporary Mexico. It goes a long way to explaining the concurrent rise of narco-traffic, the victory of Fox, and the transformation of the Mexican economy in the 1990s. I learned a great deal from it." -Miguel Centeno, author of Democracy Within Reason: Technocratic Revolution in Mexico
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15 b-w photographs, 1 map, 2 tables
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Dicke: 32 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-520-22808-5 (9780520228085)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Daniel C. Levy, Distinguished Professor at the State University of New York, teaches at the University at Albany. A leading scholar and international consultant on higher education policy, Levy is the coauthor, with Gabriel Szekely, of Mexico: Paradoxes of Stability and Change (1983). Kathleen Bruhn is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Taking on Galiath: The Emergence of a New Left Party and the Struggle for Democracy in Mexico (1997). Emllio Zebadua is the Secretary of Political Affairs for the state of Chiapas and author of Banqueros y revoluclonarios (1994).
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Acknowledgments
Foreword by Lorenzo Meyer
1. The Changing Course of Development
2. Legacies and 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
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