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| ISBN: | 9780271056753
0271056754
9780271055367
0271055367
0271037881
9780271037882
0271056061
9780271056067
9780271037875
0271037873
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | When the PRI fell from power in the elections of 2000, scholars looked for an explanation. Some focused on international pressures, while others pointed to recent electoral reforms. In contrast, Dolores Trevizo argues that a more complete explanation takes much earlier democratizing changes in civil society into account. Her book explores how largely rural protest movements laid the groundwork for liberalization of the electoral arena and the consolidation of support for two opposition parties, the PAN on the right and the PRD on the left, that eventually mounted a serious challenge to the PRI. She shows how youth radicalized by the 1968 showdown between the state and students in Mexico City joined forces with peasant militants in nonviolent rural protest to help bring about needed reform in the political system. In response to this political effervescence in the countryside, agribusinessmen organized in peak associations that functioned like a radical social movement. Their countermovement formulated the ideology of neoliberalism, and they were ultimately successful in mobilizing support for the PAN. Together, social movements and the opposition parties nurtured by them contributed to Mexico's transformation from a one-party state into a real electoral democracy nearly a hundred years after the Revolution.
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| Other form: | Print version: Trevizo, Dolores. Rural protest and the making of democracy in Mexico, 1968-2000. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2011 9780271037875
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