Changing structure of Mexico : political, social, and economic prospects / / Laura Randall, editor.

• Superior document: Columbia University seminar series
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Randall, Laura.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Columbia University seminar series.
• Physical Description: xvii, 547 p. :; ill., maps.

Table of Contents

Reinventing Mexico / Laura Randall. -- Ideologies and values / Miguel Basanez. -- Problem of political consolidation in Mexico / Soledad Loaeza. -- Mexican foreign policy / Pamela K. Starr. -- Mexico's foreign economic policy / Sidney Weintraub. -- The Mexican economy: transformation and challenges / Alejandro M. Werner, Rodrigo Barros, and Jose F. Ursua. -- Regional difference and the economic and social geography of Mexico at the beginning of the twenty-first century / Boris Graizbord and Adrian Guillermo Aguilar. -- NAFTA-driven changes in the regional pattern of economic growth in Mexico: profile and determinants / Rafael Tamayo-Flores. -- Changes in determinants of tax policy / Carlos Elizondo Mayer-Serra. -- Changing constraints of monetary policy: distortions and resolution in Mexico's financial system / Eugenia Correa. -- Mexico's public sector debt and debt management / Graciana del Castillo. -- Changing patterns in Mexican science and technology policy (1990-2003): still far from economic development / Jordy Micheli Thirion and Ruben Oliver Espinoza. -- The reshaping of agricultural policy in Mexico / Antonio Yunez-Naude and Fernando Barceinas Paredes. -- Mexican oil, gas, electricity generation, and energy consumption / Juan Quintanilla Martinez and Mariano Bauer E. --

Industrial development and technology policy: the case of the maquiladoras / Oscar F. Contreras. -- Principally women: gender in the politics of Mexican education / Fernando Reimers. -- The environment: or how social issues affect the commitment of environmental tasks / Javier Delgado... [et al]. -- Beyond islands? Sustainable rural development in Mexico / David Barton Bray, Skya Rose Murphy, and Melissa Cornejo. -- Flowing uphill toward money: groundwater management and ejidal producers in Mexico's free trade environment / Margaret Wilder and Scott Whiteford. -- The justice system: judiciary. military, and human rights / Hugo Alejandro Concha Cantu. -- Institutionalizing Mexico's new democracy / Joseph L. Klesner. -- The political participation of women in contemporary Mexico / Maria Luisa Tarres. -- Religion, church, and state in contemporary Mexico / Roberto Blancarte. -- Mexican labor in a context of political, social, and economic change, 1982-2002 / Francisco Zapata. -- Mexico-U.S. migration: economic effects and policy impact / Pia M. Orrenius. -- Understanding Mexican philanthropy / Consuelo Castro. -- The health of women in Mexico: opportunities and challenges / Ana Langer and Jennifer Catino. -- Nongovernmental organizations and the changing structure of Mexican politics: the cases of environmental and human rights policy / Fernanda Somuano. -- Change and continuity in attention to poverty in Mexico / Sara Gordon Rapoport.