Kathleen Bruhn & Daniel C. Levy 
Mexico 
The Struggle for Democratic Development

This engaging book provides a broad and accessible analysis of Mexico’s contemporary struggle for democratic development. Now completely revised, it brings up to date issues ranging from electoral reform and accountability to drug trafficking, migration, and NAFTA. It also considers the rapidly changing role of Mexico’s mass and elite groups, and its national institutions, including the media, the military, and the Church.

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Foreword by Lorenzo Meyer


1. The Changing Course of Development

2. Legacies of 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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Sobre el autor

Daniel C. Levy, Distinguished Professor at the State University of New York, Albany, is the coauthor of Mexico: Paradoxes of Stability and Change (1983). Kathleen Bruhn, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is the author of Taking on Goliath: The Emergence of a New Left Party and the Struggle for Democracy in Mexico (1997). Emilio Zebadúa, Harvard University Ph.D. and ex-Secretary of Political Affairs for the state of Chiapas, is now a member of the Mexican Congress.