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Development and Democracy in Mexico

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The Sources of Democratic Responsiveness in Mexico. By ClearyMatthew R.Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010. Pp. xi + 253. $28.00 paper. ISBN: 9780268023010.
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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2022

Jon Shefner
Jon Shefner*
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University of Tennessee
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 47 , Issue 1 , 2012 , pp. 196 - 204
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References

1. See, for example, Guillermo O'Donnell and Philippe Schmitter, Transitions for Authoritarian Rule: Tentative Conclusions about Uncertain Democracies (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986); Larry Diamond, Jonathan Hartlyn, Juan Linz, and Seymour Martin Lipset, eds., Democracy in Developing Countries: Latin America, 2nd ed. (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999); Terry Karl, “Dilemmas of Democratization in Latin America,” Comparative Politics 23 (1990): 1–21.

2. On subnational elections, see Victoria Rodríguez and Peter Ward, eds., Opposition Government in Mexico: Past Experiences and Future Opportunities (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997); Wayne Cornelius, Todd Eisenstadt, and Jane Hindley, eds., Subnational Politics and Democratization in Mexico (San Diego: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, 1999).

3. Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan, Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), 77.

4. Paul Lawrence Haber, Power from Experience: Urban Popular Movements in Late Twentieth-Century Mexico (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006); Jon Shefner, The Illusion of Civil Society: Democratization and Community Mobilization in Low-Income Mexico (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008).

5. Many studies in this area still focus on the problematic concept of civil society. See, for example, Alberto J. Olvera, “The Elusive Democracy: Political Parties, Democratic Institutions, and Civil Society in Mexico,” Latin American Research Review 45 (2010): 78–107.

6. Jonathan Fox, Accountability Politics: Power and Voice in Rural Mexico (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007); Leonardo Avritzer, “Living under a Democracy: Participation and Its Impact on the Living Conditions of the Poor,” Latin American Research Review 45 Special Issue (2010): 166–185; Adam Przeworski, Michael E. Alvarez, José Antonio Cheibub, and Fernando Limongi, Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well-Being in the World, 1950–1990 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).