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Preemptive Reform and the Mexican Working Class

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

Kenneth M. Coleman  and
Charles L. Davis
Kenneth M. Coleman
Affiliation:
University of Kentucky, Lexington
Charles L. Davis
Affiliation:
University of Kentucky Center at Fort Knox
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This study offers a definition of preemptive reform, applies the concept to Mexico in the 1970s, describes the reaction of one target group of the Mexican reform effort, and develops a preliminary explanatory model of reactions to preemptive reform. Because preemptive reform has been an important element in Mexican politics, it is especially appropriate to examine the concept as it applies to the Mexican case. However, preemptive reform has been attempted elsewhere and these results may interest others who would seek to understand the phenomenon in a variety of settings.

Type
Research Article
Information
Latin American Research Review , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , 1983 , pp. 3 - 31
Copyright
Copyright © 1983 by the University of Texas Press

Footnotes

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We wish to thank our colleagues Lee Sigelman and Stanley Feldman, as well as our collaborator Francisco Zapata, for useful comments on earlier drafts of this manuscript. Special thanks are also due to Robert Johnston for assistance with data analysis for earlier versions of this paper, and to the anonymous reviewers of LARR, who induced us to write a better paper. Finally, we acknowledge with gratitude the financial resources made available to this project by the National Science Foundation and the University of Kentucky, neither of which bears any responsibility for interpretations advanced herein.

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