Palace Politics : : How the Ruling Party Brought Crisis to Mexico / / Jonathan Schlefer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Schlefer, Jonathan,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)

Bringing rare interviews and meticulous research to the cloaked world of Mexican politics in the mid-twentieth century, Palace Politics provides a captivating look at the authoritarian Mexican state—one of the longest-lived regimes of its kind in recent history—as well as the origins of political in...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• List of Presidents of Mexico, 1924–2006
• Introduction: The Politicians’ Testimony
• Chapter 1. Politics at the Heart of the State
• Chapter 2. The Strange Mexican State
• Chapter 3. Did Structural Economic Failure Cause the Crises?
• Chapter 4. The Macroeconomics of Elite Conflict
• Chapter 5. The Crises That Didn’t Happen
• Chapter 6. The Unwritten Rules
• Chapter 7. The End of Stability
• Chapter 8. Struggle
• Chapter 9. Schism
• Chapter 10. The Inevitability of Elite Politics
• Appendix A. Mexican Fiscal Data
• Appendix B. The Pre-Electoral Spending Cycle
• Notes
• Interview List
• Bibliography
• Index