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

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

AvDolores Trevizo,Occidental College) Trevizo, Dolores (Associate Professor

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When the PRI fell from power in the elections of 2000, scholars looked for an explanation. Some focused on international pressures, while others pointed to recent electoral reforms. In contrast, Dolores Trevizo argues that a more complete explanation takes much earlier democratizing changes in civil society into account. Her book explores how largely rural protest movements laid the groundwork for liberalization of the electoral arena and the consolidation of support for two opposition parties, the PAN on the right and the PRD on the left, that eventually mounted a serious challenge to the PRI. She shows how youth radicalized by the 1968 showdown between the state and students in Mexico City joined forces with peasant militants in nonviolent rural protest to help bring about needed reform in the political system. In response to this political effervescence in the countryside, agribusinessmen organized in peak associations that functioned like a radical social movement. Their countermovement formulated the ideology of neoliberalism, and they were ultimately successful in mobilizing support for the PAN. Together, social movements and the opposition parties nurtured by them contributed to Mexico’s transformation from a one-party state into a real electoral democracy nearly a hundred years after the Revolution.

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Utgivningsdatum2013-05-15
Mått152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt544 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor264
FörlagPennsylvania State University Press
ISBN9780271037882

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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