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Rural protest and the making of democracy in Mexico, 1968-2000 /

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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Trevizo, Dolores
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2011.
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  • Introduction: The rural roots of Mexico's nascent democracy : the role of peasants and agrarian capitalists in opposition politics
  • Social movements and democratization
  • The "banner of 1968" : the student movement's democratizing effects
  • State repression and the dispersal of radicals into Mexico's countryside, 1970-1975
  • Capitalists on the road to political power in Mexico : class struggle, neopanismo, and the birth of democracy
  • The rural sources of the PRD's electoral resiliency
  • Conclusion: The post-1968 struggle for democracy in rural Mexico
  • Appendixes.