Suchergebnisse

The careers of the cabinet members of presidents Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderon are reviewed, in order to analyze their experience and preparation in administrative and political tasks. The purpose is to observe whether the PAN, in opposition until 2000, has had the capacity to govern Mexico immediately after achieving political alternation and thus bringing the democratic transition formally to an end. The review shows that in appointing collaborators both leaders have favored managers, entrepreneurs, specialists trained in the years of PRI domination, and, specially, friends. With the exception of the specialists, the rest display notable inexperience in the entrusted tasks. Adapted from the source document.

In 2012 the Mexican democratic system confronted a new kind of alternation of governments. One of the principal characteristics of this challenge was the electoral recovery of the PRI, which seemed certain to win, representing for some a return to authoritarian rule. The essay considers this possibility in the light of analysis of the institutional maturity of political changes (electoral, in competency and participation, relations between branches of power and between the federation and the states), and concludes that such a return to the past is unlikely. However, this conclusion does not mean that democracy is becoming entrenched, given the resistance offered by numerous informal practices such as clientelism, corporatism, corruption and the lack of effective rule of law. Adapted from the source document.