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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acronyms -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- WOMEN IN CONTEMPORARY MEXICAN POLITICS -- INTRODUCTION The Feminization of Mexican Public Life, and a Note on Methodology -- CHAPTER ONE Participation, Representation, and Democracy: How the Personal Becomes the Political for Women in Contemporary Mexico -- CHAPTER TWO The Social, Economic, and Political Identity of Mexican Women: Negotiating Private and Public Spaces -- CHAPTER THREE The Women's Movement in Mexico: From Suffrage to the Institutionalization of Gender -- CHAPTER FOUR Women in Public Office: Building Alliances, Getting Things Done -- CHAPTER FIVE Women and the Electoral Process: Shifting Gears in the Mexican Political Machine -- CHAPTER SIX Reframing Mexican Democracy: What Does the Future Hold for Women -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Evidence from six Mexican states is analyzed about changes in
government organisation and performance arising from decentralisation and the
recasting of federalism structures. Spurred by rising pluralism, greater electoral
transparency, alternancia, and willingness of the Centre to 'let go',
a more genuine structure of shared powers is emerging between the executive (governors), the
legislature and the judiciary. The government bureaucracy is undergoing
modernisation, and governors are seeking to share power with legislatures as a
means of sharing the responsibilities of statecraft. Local congresses are exercising
greater 'checks' and 'balances' vis-à-vis the executive branch. Finally, the
judiciary is beginning to be reorganised, particularly at the national (Supreme
Court) level, where it is starting to develop jurisprudence relating to inter- and
intra-governmental relations.

Examines emerging role of state government arising from decentralization, sharing power among governors, legislatures, and the judiciary, checks and balances, and reorganization of the judiciary.