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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Recruitment and Modernization: A Mexican Model -- 2 Age as a Variable in Political Recruitment -- 3 Experience and Leadership: The Role of Combat -- 4 Education and Politics: Formation and Recruitment of National Leaders -- 5 Experience and Leadership: The Influence of Careers -- 6 Gender, Place, and Family in Leadership Credentials -- 7 The Opposition: An Alternative Path to Leadership? -- 8 The Branches of Government: Who Recruits Whom -- 9 Salinas in Power: A Case Study of Recruitment in Practice -- Bibliographic Essay -- Index

In the fully updated second edition of Mexico: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Roderic Ai Camp will take readers through the myriad issues confronting Mexico domestically and internationally. Informed and contextualized by Camp's deep knowledge of Mexican political and cultural history, the book will address Mexican security and violence, economic and political development, its foreign relations with the United States, social development, and current cultural concerns

In the fully updated second edition of Mexico: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Roderic Ai Camp will take readers through the myriad issues confronting Mexico domestically and internationally. Informed and contextualized by Camp's deep knowledge of Mexican political and cultural history, the book will address Mexican security and violence, economic and political development, its foreign relations with the United States, social development, and current cultural concerns.

A comprehensive view of the remarkable transformation of Mexico's political system to a democratic model. The contributors to this volume assess the most influential institutions, actors, policies and issues in the country's current evolution toward democratic consolidation.

This work draws upon Camp's forty years of original sources and data to test major interpretations about the composition of Mexican national leadership while undergoing democratic change. It looks at the role of female politicians, the future of governors as presidential candidates, the increase in partisanship, the dramatic increase in party-based careers, peaceful versus violent change, and the impact of the Alemán generation on political institutions.

This groundbreaking study marks the culmination of over twenty years of research by one of this country's most prominent Mexico scholars. Roderic Ai Camp provides a detailed, comprehensive examination of Mexico's power elite-their political power, societal influence, and the crucial yet often overlooked role mentoring plays in their rise to the top. In the course of this book, he traces the careers of approximately four hundred of the country's most notable politicians, military officers, clergy, intellectuals, and capitalists. Thoroughly researched and drawn from in-depth interviews with some

Totalmente basada en la historia de Mexico, en una vasta investigacion de campo y en datos ineditos de encuestas de opinion publica, esta introduccion a la politica mexicana examina no solo las raices de la cultura politica contemporanea de Mexico sino su estructura de gobierno y sus procesos electorales, los problemas de la corrupcion y la politica exterior, los efectos de la modernizacion politica y economica desde 1998 y las posibilidades para el futuro de Mexico. Cubre tanto los valores en evolucion de los modernos ciudadanos mexicanos como las instituciones que forman el sistema politico, investiga la socializacion y los procesos de votacion, asi como los efectos del genero, la religion, el ingreso y la educacion en los valores politicos y la pertenencia a un partido. (DÜI-IIK)

Based on six years of research, including interviews with leading Mexican entrepreneurial and political leaders and the assessment of previously unavailable materials, this work focuses on the complex political relationship between the Mexican state and leading businessmen from the 1920s to the present.