Mexican Politics: The Dynamics of Change

by Howard Handelman, Handelman

MEXICAN POLITICS traces the historical development of Mexico's political system and analyzes U.S./Mexico relations, highlighting Mexico's importance to the U.S. Current events such as the NAFTA accord, the Chiapas uprising, the economic crisis of 1994, and the downfall of a former president are explored in context.

Genres: Politics

208 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

Reviews

[Shin Furuya]

This is a short overview of political/economic history, particularly on major political parties and presidents with their specific (mainly economic) policies with particular focus around the earlier time of the Constitution/land reform and recent history around NAFTA.



It's a good book as a text book as an introduction. It would be nicer to have some analysis of the role of military over the political history of México.



The book is pretty dry, thus somewhat dehumanized, so it would be better to combine this book with others such as ‘Democracy in Mexico’ by Dan La Botz or ‘Death of Ramon Gonzalez’ by Angus Wright that combines analysis and personal story.



For in-depth land struggle issues, ‘Basta!’ by George Collier with Elizabeth Lowery Quaratiello can be good sequel to this book.