Rural Protest and the Making of Democracy in Mexico, 1968–2000

Dolores Trevizo is Professor of Sociology at Occidental College.

• ContentsList of Figures and TablesPreface and AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionThe Rural Roots of Mexico’s Nascent Democracy: The Role of Peasants and Agrarian Capitalists in Opposition Politics1.Social Movements and Democratization2.The “Banner of 1968”: The Student Movement’s Democratizing Effects3.State Repression and the Dispersal of Radicals into Mexico’s Countryside, 1970–19754.Capitalists on the Road to Political Power in Mexico: Class Struggle, Neopanismo, and the Birth of Democracy5.The Rural Sources of the PRD’s Electoral ResiliencyConclusionThe Post-1968 Struggle for Democracy in Rural MexicoAppendixesReferencesIndex

“[Rural Protest and the Making of Democracy in Mexico, 1968–2000] is an ambitious and mature book, rich in complexities and depth while keeping the big picture in focus. Using a mixed-methods approach [Dolores Trevizo] looked at primary sources in the United States and Mexico, conducted interviews, read participant auto-biographies, and did an extensive review of secondary sources, census data, national security archives, human rights reports, along with a quantitative analysis of peasant protests from an event catalogue constructed from reports in the then independent Mexican newspaper Excelsior between 1970 and 1975. Few stones are left unturned. . . . This book is a worthy read for scholars interested in leftist social movements, right-wing countermovements, democratization, and recent Mexican history.”—Ernesto Castañeda Contemporary Sociology