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The Political Impact of NAFTA on Mexico: Reflections on the Political Economy of Democratization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 August 2005

Maxwell A. Cameron  and
Carol Wise
Maxwell A. Cameron
Affiliation:
University of British Columbia, Canada
Carol Wise
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
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At the time of the decision to negotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), advocates argued that closer integration with Canada and the United States would have a democratizing influence on Mexico's political regime (Baer and Weintraub, 1994: 174–79; Pastor, 1993: 67). Critics of the deal suggested just the opposite, insisting that NAFTA might perpetuate or even reinvigorate authoritarian rule (Aguilar Zinser, 1993: 203–15; Castañeda 1996). With the breakthrough elections of July 2000 and the transfer of executive power to an opposition party the — PAN, or National Action Party — it is timely to ask: were the advocates of NAFTA right all along? Was NAFTA the impetus for Mexico's long overdue transition to democracy?

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , June 2004 , pp. 301 - 323
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© The Canadian Political Science Association (l'Association canadienne de science politique) and/et la Société québécoise de science politique

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