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Savage Democracy: Institutional Change and Party Development in Mexico
Steven T. Wuhs
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Description for Savage Democracy: Institutional Change and Party Development in Mexico
Hardback. Num Pages: 176 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JMC; JPH; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
Mexico finally shed its authoritarian past with the victory of the PAN candidate Vicente Fox in the 2000 election. But the consolidation and growth of democracy in Mexico have been complicated by the institutional residues of the past. Steven Wuhs’s investigation of the PAN and PRD begins by depicting how the PRI functioned and then, in successive chapters, compares how PAN and PRD leaders reacted to the PRI’s institutions in choosing rules for selecting candidates to run for office, organizing their party’s bureaucracy, and linking to groups in civil society. What he shows is that “savage democracy has undermined the ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780271034218
SKU
V9780271034218
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About Steven T. Wuhs
Steven T. Wuhs is Director of the Salzburg Program at the University of Redlands.
Reviews for Savage Democracy: Institutional Change and Party Development in Mexico
“Savage Democracy presents a provocative analysis of the perverse effects of internal democracy within political parties on the functioning of democracy at the regime level, based on richly detailed field research, extensive interviews, and internal party documents. Far too little attention has been paid to the political effects of the internal organizational choices made by political parties. Most research concentrates ... Read more