Mexico: The Struggle for Democratic Development - Softcover

Levy, Daniel C

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520228316 ISBN 13: 9780520228313

Publisher: University of California Press, 2001

Synopsis

This engaging and cogently argued book provides a uniquely broad and accessible analysis of Mexico's contemporary struggle for democratic development. Linking Mexico's current state to Mexico-US and other international considerations, Daniel C. Levy and Kathleen Bruhn, collaborating with Emilio Zebadua, offer rich perspectives from both sides of the border. They examine the relationship between democratization and economic change in an internationalized setting. Linking events of recent years - including the most democratic presidential election in Mexican history and a peaceful change of party rule - to pivotal episodes of Mexico's past, the authors focus on politics but also consider critical historical and economic dimensions. Authoritarian rule in Mexico's past brought political stability and economic growth, but democracy has become central to reconstructing those historic achievements. Democracy is also important for Mexico to address tragically neglected aspects of development, especially inequality. Yet there are many obstacles to democratization, which in itself does not guarantee broadly based development. Both the challenges and the opportunities for Mexico are intertwin

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About the Author

Daniel C. Levy, Distinguished Professor at the State University of New York, teaches at the University at Albany. A leading scholar and international consultant on higher education policy, Levy is the coauthor, with Gabriel Szekely, of Mexico: Paradoxes of Stability and Change (1983). Kathleen Bruhn is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Taking on Galiath: The Emergence of a New Left Party and the Struggle for Democracy in Mexico (1997). Emllio Zebadua is the Secretary of Political Affairs for the state of Chiapas and author of Banqueros y revoluclonarios (1994).

Edition details

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520228316
• ISBN 13: 9780520228313
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384