Political Recruitment Across Two Centuries

Roderic Ai Camp is McKenna Professor of the Pacific Rim at Claremont McKenna College.

• List of TablesAcknowledgments1. Recruitment and Modernization: A Mexican Model Arguments for Examining Political RecruitmentThe Mexican Approach: A Brief AsideThe Theoretical ConstructsConclusionsNotes2. Age as a Variable in Political Recruitment Factors Contributing to Age Cohorts in MexicoPresidential Political GenerationsConclusionsNotes3. Experience and Leadership: The Role of Combat The Role of Nineteenth-Century ViolenceThe Role of the Mexican RevolutionConclusionsNotes4. Education and Politics: Formation and Recruitment of National Leaders The Institutionalization of EducationCentralizing Education and Enhancing the Recruitment FunctionConclusionsNotes5. Experience and Leadership: The Influence of Careers The Interlocking Structures-A Power Elite in Mexico?The MilitaryBusiness Leaders as PoliticiansThe Public Sector and the ProfessionsConclusionsNotes6. Gender, Place, and Family in Leadership Credentials The Role of GenderThe Influence of PlaceSocioeconomic OriginsConclusionsNotes7. The Opposition: An Alternative Path to Leadership? Special Qualities of Opposition LeadershipOpposition Socioeconomic OriginsConclusionsNotes8. The Branches of Government: Who Recruits Whom Background VariablesCareer ChoicesEducational InfluencesConclusionsNotes9. Salinas in Power: A Case Study of Recruitment in Practice Presidential MentoringThe Political TechnocratConclusionsNotesBibliographic EssayIndex

Camp’s new book is yet another in his outstanding series of studies of political leadership in Mexico. . . . He provides the reader with a clear picture of the ways in which the Mexican political elite has been and continues to be created and to recreate itself. . . . It will be required reading for the specialist but also usable in the classroom and of great interest for the general reader. (American Historical Review)