Media and Politics in Post-Authoritarian Mexico: The Continuing Struggle for Democracy

Abstract

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction. Not Authoritarian, But Not Yet Democratic. Advances, Setbacks, and Challenges in Mexican Media and Politics -- Mexican Media and Politics at Large. An Overview -- Understanding Mexican Changes and Continuities. Plural Journalisms and Transitional Legacies -- On This Volume -- Part I: Media Systems and Regulation. Explaining Continuities -- Part II: The Burden of Being a Journalist in Mexico. Risk, Security, and Censorship -- Part III. Post-authoritarian Media Performance: Actors and Representations in Dispute -- References -- Part I: Media Systems and Regulation: Explaining Continuities -- Chapter 2: Media Systems in Unconsolidated Democracies: The Case of Mexico -- Introduction: Media in Transitional Regimes -- Political Regimes, Media and Democracy -- Mexico: Media Openness in an Unfinished Transition -- Limits of Political Change: Electoral Alternation Without Democratic Consolidation -- Media Openness to Diversity: From Environmental Censorship to Convenient Arrangements -- Politics and Media During the Second Alternation: From Arrangements of Convenience to Confrontation -- Final Remarks -- References -- Chapter 3: Legal Protection of the Freedom of Expression in Mexico During the Alternation: Progress with No Results -- The Alternation as a Point of Inflection in the Media Opening -- Methodology -- Progress Without Results -- Three Moves to Advance the Laws on Social Communications in Mexico -- The Freedom of Speech in Constant Crisis -- Local Regulations on Social Communication -- Discussion. Great Advances with Few Results -- References -- Chapter 4: The Salinas Years, 1988-1994: Watershed in the Opening of Mexico's Print Media -- Salinas Offered Something New: Did He Deliver?.