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Vikram Chand - Mexico's Political Awakening, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2001

Del i serien Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development

Mexico's Political Awakening

Av Vikram Chand

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True democracy has been long in coming to Mexico, but citizen rebellion and the work of social leaders helped bring about dramatic changes at the end of the twentieth century. The traditional dominance of the one-party state has yielded to a more democratic structure marked by growing decentralization and the adoption of fairer election rules and procedures.Vikram Chand examines the role of major institutions in fostering democratization in Mexico during the 1980s and 1990s, offering an understanding of how these changes came about and why they are likely to last. He focuses on three important factors that fostered this transition: the growing participation of the Catholic Church and its lay organizations in politics, the proliferation of non-governmental civic associations dedicated to promoting clean elections, and the emergence of vibrant opposition parties. He particularly highlights the conservative National Action Party, about which little has been written in English.Chand tells how the rise of a more politically-aware citizenry and the growing power of non-state institutions pressured the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party into adopting electoral reforms, resulting in the first open primary for gubernatorial elections in 1998. Using the state of Chihuahua as a case study, he draws on primary research—including 250 interviews with key figures in the political process—to demonstrate how the mutual interaction of national and regional politics has helped bring about these democratic transitions.Mexico's Political Awakening is a "bottom-up" perspective on democratization, correcting analyses which view that process in Mexico as flowing down from the President. It challenges existing theories of democratization by emphasizing the importance of strong social institutions for the development of democracy, and it demonstrates that increases in political participation play a vital role in strengthening those institutions.
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Vikram K. Chand is Public Sector Management Specialist at The World Bank, New Delhi.

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"[Chand] uses the state of Chihuahua to examine changes in Mexican politics since the 1980's that produced local and national victories for PAN, or the National Action Party." —Chronicle of Higher Education, March 2001"The role of [the Catholic Church, political parties, and labor unions] in transforming Mexico's political culture and democratizing its political system from the 'bottom up' is the centerpiece of Vikram Chand's extremely valuable book." —Journal of Democracy"His book's originality lies in the analysis of favorable economic changes occurring during the period that precipitated popular political involvement. The volume deserves careful reading." —MultiCultural Review"Vikram Chand's Mexico's Political Awakening provides a comprehensive analysis of the PAN in both the state of Chihuahua and the country ... Chand provides a solid analysis of the PAN's development in Chihuahua..." —Latin American Research Review"This is a uniquely valuable work. Drawing on extensive field interviews in Chihuahua state and Mexico City, Chand contributes much that is new to our understanding of how Mexico's National Action Party achieved power at both the national and subnational levels from the 1980s to the 2000 elections. In addition to providing a superb case study of the recent development of the PAN, the book's chapters on the Catholic Church's role in democratization and the emergence of new organizations in civil society are the best available treatments of their topics. Specialists on the Mexican political system will find this book indispensable, and it will be very useful as a supplemental text for courses on Mexican politics." —Wayne A. Cornelius, Gildred Professor of Political Science and Research Director, Center for US-Mexican Studies, University of California-San Diego

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