Suchergebnisse

In 1968 a major student movement emerged in Mexico, to the surprise of virtually everybody knowledgeable about Mexican student pol. The Instit'al Revolutionary Party (PRI), in power since 1929, had not been seriously challenged while the economy continued to grow at a rate of 7%, one of the fastest rates of growth in the world. The principal moving force behind the movement was the moral outrage of thousands of previously uninvolved students, who responded to what they felt to be the unwarranted brutality of the riot police, & later the army, in quelling a campus disturbance, esp since the students were exercising their legal right to peaceful protest. Additional exacerbating factors were cuts in the already meager budget of the Nat'l Autonomous U, juxtaposed against large outlays for the Olympic Games, as well as the hypocrisy of a gov which mouthed revolutionary slogans while brutally suppressing students & continuing its entrenched pattern of graft & corruption. The movement, after mobilizing hundreds of thousands of Mexicans, came to an abrupt halt with the slaying, jailing & exiling of hundreds of student activists. Since 1968, the main focus of Mexican student pol has been the obtaining of the freedom of the imprisoned students. Modified HA.

Examines voting rates and types of political activism and their correlation with attitudes toward economic and political reform; based on two surveys, 1992 and 1993.

Using an investigation of a technical policy issue, demonstrates the utility of employing an issue networks approach to understanding the dynamics among those concerned about the threat of earthquakes to the province of British Columbia, Canada and the state of Washington. (Original abstract-amended)