Thoroughly grounded in Mexican history and based on extensive field research, this introduction examines the roots of Mexico's contemporary political culture and its democratic transformation. Now in its seventh edition, Politics in Mexico: The Path of a New Democracy has been revised and updated in order to address several major changes that have occurred since 2013, including the broad effort of Mexico to achieve a functional democracy; Pe�a Nieto's continued reliance on the armed forces to combat organized crime; an analysis of the 2018 presidential election and what L�pez Obrador's victory means for Mexico; and the country's slow economic growth and the importance of emphasizing poverty as a central policy issue. Authors Roderic Ai Camp and Shannan L. Mattiace provide an analysis of numerous aspects of Mexican political and economic development, highlighting controversial issues related to electoral democracy, drug-related violence, poverty, human rights, and the country's economic and political relationship with the U.S. Engagingly written by top scholars in the field, Politics in Mexico, Seventh Edition, is essential reading for students of Mexican or Latin American politics, comparative politics, and Mexican history.

Politics in Mexico: The Path of a New Democracy

Politics & Social Sciences

Camp, Roderic Ai

Mattiace, Shannan L.

Politics & Government

Oxford University Press

Throughout Latin America, native peoples have long been viewed as obstacles to development. In Mexico, beginning in the late 1930s, the government organized indigenous peoples into peasant organizations tied to the official party in an attempt to assimilate them into mestizo society. The unexpected result was the emergence of political consciousness among Indians in Chiapas, Mexico.
Since the 1994 Zapatista uprising, indigenous peasants increasingly have cast their demands within a framework of legal and cultural autonomy. In this book, based on fieldwork in eastern Chiapas with the Tojolabal-Maya people, Shannan Mattiace shows that on the ground, the struggle for autonomy is integrally related to peasant politics and everyday struggles for survival. Her years of fieldwork prior to 1994, and after, have provided her with important ethnographic accounts and extensive interviews. To See With Two Eyes will be of interest to scholars in Latin American political science, anthropology, and history.
 "Mattiace has conducted original research on an incredibly important topic. While she is particularly interested in Chiapas, she situates the Zapatista experience in broader perspective-analyzing the Zapatistas against Mexico's historical record of popular organizing, contemporary indigenous movements in other parts of Mexico, and other indigenous movements in Latin America."--Professor Deborah Yashar, Princeton University

To See with Two Eyes: Peasant Activism and Indian Autonomy in Chiapas, Mexico

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

University of New Mexico Press

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