Cesar Cansino Ortiz Libros

Broad overview of transition process in Mexicos political development covers various issues ranging from political culture to the electoral process. Summarizes seven arguments which may either foster or hinder political change. Brief postscript incorporates events in Chiapas into the works larger context –Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

A polemic work due to its hefty critic to public figures and to those who see the electoral reformations -which this book demystifies-, as a historical achievement. The transition to democracy requires not only the dismantlement of the old regime, but also the design of the new normative and institutional arrangement that preserves the plural