Political Reformism in Mexico: An Overview of Contemporary Mexican Politicsby Stephen D. Morris;Democratizing Mexico: Public Opinion and Electoral Choicesby Jorge I. Dominguez; James A. McCann;Mexican Politics in Transition: The Breakdown of a One-Party-Dominant Regimeby Wayne A. Cornelius

✍ Scribed by Review by: Kenneth Maxwell

• Book ID: 124207975
• Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 348 KB
• Volume: 75
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0015-7120
• DOI: 10.2307/20047617

✦ Synopsis

Recent Books tude toward generalizations, the bane of much theory-driven political science. They insist on the diversity of paths to democratic consolidation, the depen dence of these paths on the nature of the previous regime, and the factors that still threaten further consolidation. They also attempt to distinguish the so far relatively successful countries of southern Europe from the shakier transitions in Eastern Europe and Latin America. More stable countries, they note, carried out political reform before economic reform. There