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Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Preface and Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction The Rural Roots of Mexico’s Nascent Democracy: The Role of Peasants and Agrarian Capitalists in Opposition Politics
1. Social Movements and Democratization
2. The “Banner of 1968”: The Student Movement’s Democratizing Effects
3. State Repression and the Dispersal of Radicals into Mexico’s Countryside, 1970–1975
4. Capitalists on the Road to Political Power in Mexico: Class Struggle, Neopanismo, and the Birth of Democracy
5. The Rural Sources of the PRD’s Electoral Resiliency
Conclusion The Post-1968 Struggle for Democracy in Rural Mexico
Appendixes
References
Index
Dolores Trevizo is Professor of Sociology at Occidental College.
“[Rural Protest and the Making of Democracy in Mexico, 1968–2000]
is an ambitious and mature book, rich in complexities and depth
while keeping the big picture in focus. Using a mixed-methods
approach [Dolores Trevizo] looked at primary sources in the United
States and Mexico, conducted interviews, read participant
auto-biographies, and did an extensive review of secondary sources,
census data, national security archives, human rights reports,
along with a quantitative analysis of peasant protests from an
event catalogue constructed from reports in the then independent
Mexican newspaper Excelsior between 1970 and 1975. Few stones are
left unturned. . . . This book is a worthy read for scholars
interested in leftist social movements, right-wing
countermovements, democratization, and recent Mexican
history.”—Ernesto Castañeda Contemporary Sociology
“Traditional accounts of democratization tend to credit elites with
most of the ‘heavy lifting’ via the fashioning of democratic
‘pacts.’ More recently, a newer generation of scholars has focused
attention on the role of grassroots movements in democratizing
episodes. In her exemplary account of the fall of the PRI from
power in Mexico, Trevizo does both, arguing that it was the complex
interaction between grassroots and elite groups that ultimately
undermined the party’s hold on power. In doing so, she also extends
her analysis over a much longer period of time than most studies of
democratization. The result is one of the richest, most detailed
accounts of democratization produced to date.”—Doug McAdam,
Stanford University
“Rural Protest and the Making of Democracy in Mexico, 1968–2000
provides a unique, in-depth exploration of the underlying causes of
Mexico’s democratic electoral transition. Dolores Trevizo, relying
on years of field research, analyzes the importance of the 1968
student massacre for distributing student leaders among nonviolent
peasant movements in the 1970s and 1980s. The author pursues an
original strategy, providing case studies of the prodemocratic
agrarian movements and the businessmen who strengthened the PRD and
the PAN, respectively, in their opposition to the PRI. She enhances
our understanding of how the PRI combined a complex, repressive,
and pluralistic approach to different groups in its ultimately
failed attempt to put a lid on the legitimacy crisis created in
1968.”—Roderic Ai Camp, Claremont McKenna College
“[Rural Protest and the Making of Modern Democracy in Mexico,
1968–2000] powerfully reveals how developments in rural Mexico
fostered electoral democratization, manifested in the victory of
the opposition (the PAN) in the 2000 and 2006 presidential
elections. . . . It adds a very important dimension to our
understanding of the emergence of Mexico's still-young and
incomplete democracy by showing how events in the rural parts of
the country invigorated both the left and the right. The author
provides a wealth of data to support her conclusions, derived in
part from extensive field work and the equally extensive use of
primary documents. Moreover, she utilizes a combination of
qualitative and quantitative approaches to analyze these data in
sophisticated ways. . . . [This] is a very interesting,
comprehensive, and original addition to the literature on Mexican
democratization.”—Juan D. Lindau Political Science Quarterly
“Detailed and meticulously researched, this book offers an
important contribution to the scholarship of Mexican politics and
social sciences.”—Claire Brewster Journal of Latin American
Studies
“Trevizo raises fresh insights into the evolution of Mexico’s
democratic transition and on the role of these groups in generating
electoral change, opposition party growth, and the establishment of
human rights organizations. The author’s broader theoretical
findings on actions and reactions among social movements, and
between those movements and the state, offer valuable comparative
material for studies of past or ongoing change in other political
systems.”—Roderic Ai Camp Perspectives on Politics
“In a sweeping and ambitious work, part historiography, part social
movement ethnography, and part quantitative assessment of human
rights and democratization, Dolores Trevizo has convincingly called
several aspects of [the stylized story of Mexico’s transition to
democracy] into question in her opus Rural Protest and the Making
of Democracy in Mexico. This smart and enterprising book offers an
important critique of the conventional wisdom, and, even more
important, lays the groundwork for a more nuanced formulation of
Mexico’s dramatic transition. . . .“. . . The implications of this
important book will be with us for some time as we use her wisdom
to consider how social movements can take on authoritarians and
win, staging their battles from the countryside as well as from the
cities. Rural Protest and the Making of Democracy in Mexico is
necessary reading for all students of democracy, human rights,
social movements, and political opportunity structures, from the
Suez Canal to Tierra del Fuego.”—Todd Eisenstadt American Journal
of Sociology
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