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The Mexican Exception
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00The question of democracy in post-revolutionary Mexican society is key to Mexico's future. In this book, each chapter recounts an event or particular historical sequence that sheds light on the relation between culture and sovereign exceptionality. Each moment or sequence stages a relation to language. In these speech scenes there is a disagreement... more...
Demokratisierung und Dezentralisierung
Springer 2012; US$ 54.99Der Übergang vom Autoritarismus zur Demokratie führte in den europäischen Flächenstaaten nicht nur zur Einführung demokratischer Institutionen in den politischen Zentren, sondern hatte auch Konsequenzen für die gesamte staatliche Struktur. Eine komplexe Aufgaben- und Gewaltenteilung zwischen Zentrum, regionaler und... more...
Voting for Autocracy
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 22.00This book provides a theory of the logic of survival of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). more...
An Eternal Struggle
ABC-CLIO 2003; US$ 80.00Examines Mexico's long transition to democracy and the role played by the National Action Party. more...
Elites, Masses, and the Struggle for Democracy in Mexico
ABC-CLIO 2000; US$ 150.00In this book, a new general model of delayed transitions to democracy is proposed and used to analyze Mexico's transition to democracy. This model attempts to explain the slow, gradual dynamics of change characteristic of delayed transitions to democracy and is developed in a way that makes it generalizable to other regional contexts. Utilizing both... more...
Accountability Politics
OUP Oxford 2007; US$ 119.99How can the seeds of accountability ever grow in authoritarian environments? Embedding accountability into the state is an inherently uneven, partial and contested process. Campaigns for public accountability often win limited concessions at best, but they can leave cracks in the system that serve as handholds for subsequent efforts to open up the... more...
Political Struggles and the Forging of Autonomous Government Agencies
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00Argues that autonomous agencies are not the result of a systematic design, but are produced by the interactions of political and bureaucratic forces. The case studies illustrate how political struggles between politicians and bureaucrats can create a muddle of agencies that lack coherence and are subject to conflicting levels of political control. more...
The Struggle for Mexico
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2012; US$ 55.00In the 1970s political and economic changes to the world order led to an emerging "globalization" credited with the ceding of state sovereignty to a "de facto world government" of transnational corporations and with the anti-globalism movement directed at countering it. Mexico, however, has maintained the salience of the national... more...









