Beschreibung:
This book is a collection of essays on the Mexican transition to democracy that offers reflections on different aspects of civic culture, the political process, electoral struggles, and critical junctures.
This book is a collection of essays on the Mexican transition to democracy that offers reflections on different aspects of civic culture, the political process, electoral struggles, and critical junctures.
Part I: The Political Transition Chapter 1: The Dictatorship was not Perfect 3 Chapter 2: Mud, mire, and democracy 29 Chapter 3: Can the Right be modern? 42 Chapter 4: The Left - in danger of extinction? 49 Chapter 5: The burdens of the Right 58 Chapter 6: Populism and democracy in Latin America 69 Chapter 7: The Mexican hydra: the return of the authoritarian party 83 Part II: Culture and Democracy Chapter 8: Intellectuals and scholars facing democracy 97 Chapter 9: The labyrinth and its map 106 Chapter 10: Ethnographic sonata in Nay-flat 117 Chapter 11: 1968: Defeat, transition, counter-culture 134 Chapter 12: Memories of the counter - culture 139 Chapter 13: Street life and politics 147 Chapter 14: The shadow of the future