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Mexico

Mexico. CHAPTER SIXTEEN. Thinking About Mexico. A. The Basics Poverty Diversity. Thinking About Mexico. B. Key Questions How did the PRI stay in office so long? How and why did forces undermining PRI rule emerge?

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Mexico

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  1. Mexico CHAPTER SIXTEEN

  2. Thinking About Mexico A. The Basics • Poverty • Diversity

  3. Thinking About Mexico B. Key Questions • How did the PRI stay in office so long? • How and why did forces undermining PRI rule emerge? • Why did Mexico embrace structural adjustment so strongly in the 1980s and ‘90s? • How much have reforms addressed Mexico's poverty and other pressing needs?

  4. Thinking About Mexico C. Big Brother IS Watching

  5. The Evolution of Mexican Politics A. Before the Revolution B. Independence C. The Revolution D. Institutionalizing the Revolution E. Cárdenas and his Legacy F. An Institutional Revolutionary Party

  6. Political Participation • The PRI and its hold on power • The Other Parties • PAN • PRD • The People, the PRI, and Civil society

  7. The Mexican State • The end of an era? • Non re-Election and Presidential Domination • The Cabinet, the Bureaucracy and the Judiciary • Congress and the Legislative Process • The Federal System • The Military • Corporatism and Corruption

  8. Public Policy A. Debt and Development • Early success • The crisis • Reform • Debt reduction • Sharp cuts in government spending • Privatization • Opening up the economy

  9. Public Policy B. US-Mexican relations • General patterns • Immigration • Drugs

  10. The 2000 Mexico Election

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