The scholarly study of Mexican politics

Mexican Studies - Estudios Mexicanos

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 377-410

  Domínguez, Jorge I ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 60950680503     PISSN: 07429797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/msem.2004.20.2.377     Document Type: Review

References (124)

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8. On the skepticism of economists regarding such a policy instrument, see M. I. Blejer and A. Cheasty, "High Inflation, Heterodox Stabilization, and Fiscal Policy," World Development 16, no. 8 (August 1988): 867-79
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10. Jean-Marie Grether, Jaime de Melo, and Marcelo Olarreaga, "Who Determines Mexican Trade Policy?" Journal of Development Economics 64 (2001): 343-70
11. Strom Thacker, Big Business, the State, and Free Trade constructing Coalitions in Mexico (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)
12. Guy Poitras and Raymond Robinson, "The Politics of NAFTA in Mexico," JournaI of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 36, no. 1 (Spring 1994): 1-35
13. Manuel Pastor and Carol Wise, "The Origins and Sustainability of Mexico's Free Trade Policy," International Organization 48, no. 3 (Summer 1994): 459-89, quotation from p. 487
14. Jorge I. Domínguez and Rafael Fernández de Castro, The United States and Mexico: Between Partnership and Conflict (New York: Routledge, 2001), chap. 2
15. Carlos Salinas' account of his presidency is particularly interesting on the NAFTA negotiations. See Carlos Salinas de Gortari, México: Un paso difícil a la modernidad (Barcelona: Plaza & Janés Editores, 2000), chap. 2-7
16. Guillermo Calvo and Enrique Mendoza, "Mexico's Balance of Payments Crisis: A Chronicle of a Death Foretold," Journal of International Economics 41 (1996): 235-64
17. Jeffrey Sachs, Aaron Tornell, and Andrés Velasco, "The Mexican Peso: Sudden Death or Death Foretold? Journal of International Economics 41 (1996): 265-83, quotation from p. 268
18. See also Sebastian Edwards and Moisés Naím, eds., Anatomy of an Emerging-Market Crash: Mexico 1994 (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1997)
19. For a thoughtful political economy explanation of Mexico's previous financial crisis that, nonetheless, privileged economic rather than political explanations, see Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, "Mexico's Recent Balance of Payments Experience and Prospects for Growth," World Development 14, no. 8 (1986): 963-91
20. Neil Nevitte and Miguel Basáñez, "Trinational Perceptions," in The Controversial Pivot: The U.S. Congress and North America, eds. Robert Pastor and Rafael Fernández de Castro (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1998), 167
21. Charles Davis, "Mass Support for Regional Economic Integration: The Case of NAFTA and the Mexican Public," MS/EM 14, no. 1 (1998): 105-130
22. Luis Rubio, Tres ensayos: Fobaproa, privatización, y TLC (Mexico: Cal y Arena, 1999), 136-39
23. Centro de Investigación para el Desarrollo A.C. (CIDAC), Reforma del sistema político mexicano (Mexico, DF: Editorial Diana, 1990), especially 10-14, 66-74
24. For a general analysis, see Wayne Cornelius, Mexican Politics in Transition: The Breakdown of a One-Party-Dominant Regime (La Jolla, CA: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1996)
25. The first political science work on the PRI that sought to connect its study to the wider scholarship of comparative politics was Robert E. Scott, Mexican Government in Transition (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1959). Scott over-estimated the speed of Mexico's political transition but otherwise this splendid book stood well the test of time
26. Mark Williams, "Traversing the Mexican Odyssey: Reflections on Political Change and the Study of Mexican Politics," MS/EM 18, no. 1 (Winter 2002): 159-88, especially p. 175
27. Judith Teichman, "Neoliberalism and the Transformation of Mexican Authoritarianism," MS/EM 13, no. 1 (Winter 1997): 121-47
28. Wayne Cornelius, Ann Craig, and Jonathan Fox, Transforming State-Society Relations in Mexico: The National Solidarity Strategy (La Jolla, CA: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1994)
29. Kathleen Bruhn, "Social Spending and Political Support: The 'Lessons' of the National Solidarity Program in Mexico," Comparative Politics 28, no. 2 (January 1996): 151-77
30. For a more positive assessment of targeted state intervention with regard to poor people, see Emanuel Skoufias, Benjamin Davis, and Sergio de la Vega, "Targeting the Poor in Mexico: An Evaluation of the Selection of Households into PROGRESA," World Development 29, no. 10 (2001): 1769-1784
31. Arturo Alvarado Mendoza, Rafael Loyola Díaz, and Lilliana Martínez Pẽrez, "Partido Revolucionario Institucional: Contexto, situación política y escenarios electorales," MS/EM 13, no. 2 (Summer 1997): 325-62
32. Edward Gibson, "The Populist Road to Market Reform; Policy and Electoral Coalitions in Mexico and Argentina," World Politics 49, no. 3 (April 1997): 339-70
33. Guadalupe Pacheco Méndez, "Los sectores del PRI en las elecciones de 1988," MS/EM 7, no. 2 (Summer 1991): 253-82, especially pp. 256-67
34. Idem, especially 264, 273, 280-81, and Reyna Vargas Guzmán, "La representación obrera corporativa en las elecciones federales, durante la consolidación del periodo neoliberal," Estudios políticos (Sixth era) 26 ( January-April 2001): 229-57
35. Russell Dalton, Scott Flanagan, and Paul Allen Beck, eds., Electoral Change in Advanced Industrial Democracies (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984), 96
36. Joseph Klesner, "Modernization, Economic Crisis, and Electoral Alignment in Mexico," MS/EM 9, no. 2 (Summer 1993): 187-233
37. Computed from Wayne Cornelius and Ann Craig, The Mexican Political System in Transition (La Jolla, CA: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1991), 70
38. BANAMEX, México social, 1990-1991: Indicadores seleccionados (Mexico: 1991), 73
39. Michael Taylor, "Constitutional Crisis: How Reforms to the Legislature Have Doomed Mexico," MS/EM 13, no. 2 (Summer 1997): 299-324
40. María Amparo Casar, "Las bases institucionales del poder presidencial en México," Política y gobierno 3, no. 1 (1996): 61-92
41. Jeffrey Weldon, "The Political Sources of Presidencialismo in Mexico," in Presidentialism and Democracy in Latin America, ed. Scott Mainwaring and Matthew Shugart (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 225-58
42. For analysis and fascinating interviews with former presidents and unsuccessful presidential contenders regarding the dedazo, see Jorge G. Castañeda, La herencia: Arqueología de la sucesión presidencial en México (Mexico: Alfaguara, 1999)
43. Alicia Hernández Chávez, "Mexican Presidentialism; A Historical and Institutional Overview," MS/EM 10, no. 1 (Winter 1994): 217-25
44. Enrique Krauze, Mexico: Biography of Power. A History of Modern Mexico, 1810-1996, tr. Hank Heifetz (New York: Harper Collins, 1997), 769
45. For a brief but informative retrospective account of Zedillo's views regarding Mexico's democratization, see Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior, "Relatoría de la conferencia de Ernesto Zedillo," La democra cia en México, Seminario sobre Transición y Consolidación Democráticas, 2001-2002 (Madrid: FRIDE, 2002), 21-24
46. Rogelio Hernández Rodríguez, "Ernesto Zedillo. La presidencia contenida," Foro internacional 43, no. 1 (January-March 2003): 39-70
47. Kevin Middlebrook, The Paradox of Revolution: Labor, the State, and Authoritarianism in Mexico (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), especially chap. 8
48. See also Ruth Berins Collier, The Contradictory Alliance: State-Labor Relations and Regime Change in Mexico (Berkeley, CA International and Area Studies Publications, University of California-Berkeley 1992)
49. and Ilán Bizberg, Estado y sindicalismo en México (Mexico: El Colegio de México, 1990)
50. For an excellent account of the petroleum workers union and the role of its long-time leader, see Rafael Loyola Díaz, "La liquidación del feudo petrolero en la política moderna, México 1989, MS/EM 6, no. 2 (Summer 1990): 263-97
51. María Victoria Murillo, Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions, and Market Reforms in Latin America (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001)
52. Héctor Cary, "La izquierda mexicana hoy," MS/EM 2, no. 1 (Winter 1986): 1-33
53. Barry Carr, "Labor and the Political Left in Mêxico," and Enrique de la Garza Toledo, "Independent Trade Unionism in México: Past Developments and Future Perspectives," both in Unions, Workers, and the State in Mexico, ed. Kevin Middlebrook (La Jolla, CA: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1991), Carr's quotation from p. 121
54. Charles Davis and Kenneth Coleman, "Structural Determinants of Working-Class Politicization: The Role of Independent Unions in Mexico," MS/EM 5, no. 1 (Winter 1989): 89-112
55. Roderic Ai Camp, "Camarillas in Mexican Politics: The Case of the Salinas Cabinet," MS/EM 6, no. 1 (Winter 1990): 85-107
56. Crossing Swords: Politics and Religion in Mexico (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997)
57. and Entrepreneurs and Politics in Twentieth Century Mexico (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989)
58. On the circulation of Mexican political elites, see also Christopher Ballinas Valdés, "La redefinición de los espacios públicos. Formación y trayectoria de la élite gubernamental mexicana, 1970-1999," Foro internacional 41, no. 3 (July-September 2001): 530-66
59. Juan D. Lindau, "Schisms in the Mexican Political Elite and the Technocrat/Politician Typology," MS/EM 8, no. 2 (Summer 1992): 217-35
60. and also his Los técnicos y la élite gobernante mexicana (Mexico: J. Mortiz, 1993)
61. In its very first issue, this journal's lead article was about the role of the Roman Catholic Church in Mexico. See Asunción Lavrín, "El capital eclesiástico y las élites sociales en Nueva España," MS/EM 1, no. 1 (Winter 1985): 1-28
62. Dennis Gilbert, "Rewriting Hstory: Salinas, Zedillo, and the 1992 Textbook Controversy," MS/EM 13, no. 2 (Summer 1997): 271-97
63. For an analysis of the early 1960s textbook controversy, see Soledad Loaeza, Clases medias y política en México: La querella escolar, 1959-1963 (Mexico: El Colegio de México, 1988)
64. For a more general discussion of the changes in church-state relations during the Salinas presidency, see Roberto Blancarte, "Las relaciones Iglesia-Estado: Del debate al des orden," in La reconstrucción del Estado: México después de Salinas (Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1998), 147-61
65. Paul Lawrence Haber, "The Art and Implications of Political Restructuring in Mexico: The Case of Urban Popular Movements," in The Politics of Economic Restructuring: State-Society Relations and Regime Change in Mexico, eds. Maria Lorena Cook, Kevin Mddlebrook, and Juan Molinar Horcasitas (La Jolla, CA: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1994), 277-303
66. Susan Eckstein, "Formal Versus Substantive Democracy: Poor People's Politics in Mexico City," MS/EM 6, no. 2 (Summer 1990): 213-39
67. See Michael W. Foley, "Agenda for Mobilization: The Agrarian Question and Popular Mobilization in Contemporary Mexico," Latin American Research Review 26, no. 2 (1991): 39-74
68. George Collier, "Peasant Politics and the Mexican State," MS/EM 3, no. 1 (1987): 71-98
69. George Collier, "The Rebellion in Chiapas and the Legacy of Energy Development," MS/EM 10, no. 2 (1994): 371-82
70. John Womack, Jr. Rebellion in Chiapas: An Historical Reader (New York: The New Press, 1999), Part I; quotations from 24, 30
71. María Concepción Obregón, "La rebelión Zapatista en Chiapas," MS/EM 13, no. 1 (1997): 149-200
72. On the role of Protestantism in Chiapas, see Jean-Pierre Bastian, "Violencia, etnicidad y religión entre los mayas del estado de Chiapas en Mëxico," MS/EM 12, no. 2 (1996): 301-14
73. Neil Harvey, The Chiapas Rebellion: The Struggle for Land and Democracy (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1998)
74. Cárdenas' attempt to show support for the Zapatistas seems to have backfired in Chiapas in the 1994 presidential elections, however. More Chiapanecos were attracted to Zedillo's slogans of peace and negotiation. See Suzanne L. Fiederlein, "The 1994 Elections in Mexico: The Case of Chiapas," MS/EM 12, no. 1 (Winter 1996): 107-130
75. For a first-rate case study of the loss of power of one important regional cacique, see Romana Falcón, "Esplendor y ocaso de los caciques militares. San Luis Potosí en la Revolución Mexicana," MS/EM 4, no. 2 (Summer 1988): 265-93
76. Jeffrey Weldon, "The Legal and Partisan Framework of the Legislative Delegation of the Budget in Mexico," in Legislative Politics in Latin America, eds. Scott Morgenstern and Benito Nacif (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 383
77. For additional evidence of Congressional weakness relative to the executive, see Luis Carlos Ugalde, Vigilando alejecutivo: El papel del Congreso en la supervisión del gasto público, 1970-1999 (Mexico: Instituto de Investigaciones Legislativas, Cámara de Diputados, Congreso de la Unión, 2000)
78. María Amparo Casar, "Coaliciones y cohesión partidista en un congreso sin mayoría La Cámara de Diputados de México," Política y gobierno 7, no. 1 (2000): 183-202
79. Benito Nacif, "Para comprender la disciplina de partido en la Cámara de Diputados de México: El modelo de partido centralizado," Foro internacional 42, no. 1 (January-March 2002): 5-38
80. Pilar Domingo, "Judicial Independence: The Politics of the Supreme Court in Mexico," Journal of Latin American Studies 32 (2000): 705-35, quotation from p.716
81. Miguel González Compeán and Peter Bauer, Jurisdicción y democracia: Los nuevos rumbos del Poder Judicial en México (Mexico: Cal y Arena, 2002), chap. 3
82. Lesley Byrd Simpson, Many Mexicos (New York: Putnam, 1941)
83. Victoria Rodríguez and Peter Ward, Opposition Government in Mexico (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995), chaps. 9 and 10
84. See also their Political Change in Baja California: Democracy in the Making? (La Jolla, CA: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1994)
85. Roderic Ai Camp, Politics in Mexico: The Democratic Transformation (Fourth edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), 180-81
86. Rogelio Hernández Rodríguez, "Inestabilidad política y presidencialismo en México," MS/EM 10, no. 1 (Winter 1994): 187-216
87. Todd A. Eisenstadt, "Thinking Outside the Box: Informal Electoral Institutions and Mexico's Political Opening," Latin American Politics and Society 45, no. 1 (Spring 2003): 25-54
88. Alfonso Hernández Valdez, "Las causas estructurales de la democracia local en México, 1989-1998," Política y gobierno 7, no. 1 (2000): 101-44
89. For a general discussion of the problem of authoritarian enclaves, including but not limited to subnational problems, see Chappell Lawson, "Mexico's Unfinished Transition: Democratization and Authoritarian Enclaves in Mexico," MS/EM 16, no. 2 (Summer 2000): 267-87
90. Brian Turner, "Liberating the Municipio Libre: The Normalization of Municipal Finance in Yucatán," MS/EM 18, no. 1 (Winter 2002): 101-31
91. Vikram K. Chand, Mexico's Political Awakening (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001)
92. José Sosa, "El gobierno más cercano: Percepciones ciudadanas sobre la administración pública en México," Foro internacional 42, no. 4 (October-December 2002): 809-30
93. Victoria E. Rodríguez, Decentralization in Mexico: From Reforma Municipal to Solidaridad to Nuevo Federalismo (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1997), 140-51
94. For examples of previous research on Mexican elections, see Rafael Segovia, "La reforma política: el ejecutivo federal, el PRI y las elecciones de 1973," Foro internacional 14, no. 3 (1974)
95. Rafael Segovia, "Las elecciones federales de 1979," Foro internacional, 20, no. 3 (1980)
96. Silvia Gómez Tagle, "Balance de las elecciones federales en México," Revista mexicana de sociología 54, no. 1 (January-March 1992)
97. Soledad Loaeza, El llamado de las urnas (Mexico: Cal y Arena, 1989)
98. Soledad Loaeza, El Partido Acción Nacional: La larga marcha, 1939-1994. Oposición leal y partido de protesta (Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1999)
99. See also her "Acción Nacional en la antesala del poder: 1994-2000," Foro internacional 43, no. 1 (January-March 2003): 71-102
100. For differences in the styles of rule between PAN governors in Baja California and Chihuahua, see Yemile Mizrahi, "Dilemmas of the Opposition in Government: Chihuahua and Baja California," MS/EM 14, no. 1 (1998): 151-89
101. Kathleen Bruhn, Taking on Goliath: The Emergence of a New Left Party and the Struggle for Democracy in Mexico (University Park: Penn State University Press, 1997)
102. Kathleen Bruhn, "The Resurrection of the Mexican Left in the 1997 Elections: Implications for the Party System," in Toward Mexico's Democratization: Parties, Campaigns, Elections, and Public Opinion, Jorge I. Domínguez and Alejandro Poiré, eds. (New York: Routledge, 1999), 88-113
103. and Jean-François Prud'homme, "El Partido de la Revolución Democrática: Las ambivalencias de su proceso de institucionalización," Foro internacional 43, no. 1 (January-March 2003): 103-140
104. Jorge I. Domínguez and James A. McCann, Democratizing Mexico: Public Opinion and Electoral Choices (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996)
105. Alejandro Moreno, El votante mexicano: Democracia, actitudes políticas y conducta electoral (Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2003)
106. Jorge I. Domínguez and Alejandro Poiré, eds., Toward Mexico's Democratization: Parties, Campaigns, Elections, and Public Opinion (New York: Routledge, 1999)
107. Jorge I. Domínguez and Chappell Lawson, eds., Mexico's Pivotal Democratic Election: Candidates, Voters, and the Presidential Campaign of 2000 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003)
108. Jorge Buendía, "Economic Reform, Public Opinion, and Presidential Approval in Mexico," Comparative Political Studies 29, no. 5 (October 1996): 566-91
109. Roderic Ai Camp, "Learning Democracy in Mexico and the United States," MS/EM 19, no. 1 (Winter 2003): 3-27
110. Kenneth Greene, "Opposition Party Strategy and Spatial Competition in Dominant Party Regimes: A Theory and the Case of Mexico," Comparative Political Studies 35, no. 7 (September 2002): 755-83
111. Joseph Klesner, "The Mexican Midterm Congressional and Gubernatorial Elections of 1997: The End of the Hegemonic Party System," Electoral Studies 16, no. 4 (December 1997): 567-575
112. Ana Lorena de la O and Alejandro Poiré, "La agenda de investigación en torno a la aversión al riesgo," La gaceta de ciencia política 1, no. 1 (Fall-Winter 2000): 5-22
113. Marco Fernández, "La democracia pensada por los Mexicanos," La gaceta de ciencia política 1, no. 1 (Fall-Winter 2000): 23-36
114. Joseph Klesner, "The 1994 Mexican Elections: Manifestation of a Divided Society?," MS/EM 11, no. 1 (1995): 137-49
115. For arguments and evidence that demographic variables did matter, see Charles Davis and Kenneth Coleman, "Neoliberal Economic Policies and the Potential for Electoral Change in Mexico," MS/EM 10, no. 2 (1994): 341-70
116. and María Fernanda Somuano and Reynaldo Ortega, "La identificación partidista de los mexicanos y el cambio electoral, 1994-2000," Foro internacional 43, no. 1 (January-March 2003): 10-38
117. Wayne Cornelius, "La eficacia de la compra y coacción del voto en las elecciones mexicanas de 2000," Perfiles latinoamericanos 10, no. 20 (June 2002): 11-31
118. Ricardo Aparicio, "La magnitud de la manipulación del voto en las elecciones federales del año 2000," Perfiles latinoamericanos 10, no. 20 (June 2002): 79-99
119. See, in particular, Beatriz Magaloni and Alejandro Poiré, "The Issues, the Vote, and the Mandate for Change," in Mexico's Pivotal Democratic Election: Candidates, Voters, and the Presidential Campaign of 2000, ed. Jorge Domínguez and Chappell Lawson (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003), 293-320
120. and Alejandro Poiré, "Retrospective Voting, Partisanship, and Loyalty in Presidential Elections: 1994," in Toward Mexico's Democratization: Parties, Campaigns, Elections, and Public Opinion, eds. Jorge I. Domínguez and Alejandro Poiré, (New York: Routledge, 1999), 24-56
121. See Moreno, El votante mexicano, chap. 5
122. Chappell Lawson, Building the Fourth Estate: Democratization and the Rise of a Free Press in Mexico (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), quotation from p. 6
123. See also Florence Toussaint Alcaraz, "Las campañas electorales del 2000 en televisión: El caso mexicano," Revista mexicana de ciencias políticas y sociales 44, no. 180 (September-December 2000): 39-56
124. Alejandro Moreno, "The Effects of Negative Campaigns on Mexican Voters," in Mexico's Pivotal Democratic Election: Candidates, Voters, and the Presidential Campaign of 2000, ed. Jorge Domínguez and Chappell Lawson (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003), 243-68 rfsti Mexico's Pivotal Democratic Election: Candidates, Voters, and the Presidential Campaign of 2000