• About the Contributors


• Part I: Introduction


• 1. The Democratic Transformation of Mexican Politics- Roderic Ai Camp


• Part II: Political Development


• 2. Democracy from Independence to Revolution - Jaime E. Rodríguez O.


• 3. Mexican Elections, 1910 to 1994: Voters, Violence and Veto Power - Paul Gillingham


• 4. Mexican Democracy in Comparative Perspective - Peter H. Smith


• Part III: Institutions as Transformational Actors


• 5. Municipalities and Policy Making - Andrew Selee


• 6. Invigorating Federalism: the Emergence of Governors and State Legislatures as Powerbrokers and Policy Innovators - Caroline C. Beer


• 7. The Dinosaur that Evolved: Changes to the PRI's Gubernatorial Candidate Selection, 1980 to 2009 - Joy Langston


• 8. Holding Power: The PAN as Mexico's Incumbent Party - Steven T. Wuhs


• 9. PRD and the Left - Kathleen Bruhn


• 10. Ulysses, the Sirens, and Mexico's Judiciary: Increasing Pre-Commitments to Strengthen the Rule of Law - Todd A. Eisenstadt and Jennifer Yelle


• 11. The Fall of the Dominant Presidency: Lawmaking under Divided Government in Mexico - Benito Nacif


• Part IV: Changing Roles


• 12. Civil-Military Relations in Mexico: The Unfinished Transition - Jordi Diez


• 13. Mexican Political Elites in a Democratic Setting - Roderic Ai Camp


• 14. Big Business, Democracy, and the Politics of Competition - Strom Thacker


• 15. Organized Labor and Politics in Mexico - Graciela Bensusán and Kevin J. Middlebrook


• Part V: New Actors


• 16. Democracy in the Newsroom: The Evolution of Journalism and the News Media - Sallie Hughes


• 17. Social and Indigenous Movements in Mexico's Transition to Democracy


• - Shannan Mattiace


• 18. Human Rights and NGO's - Mariclaire Acosta


• 19. Women and Grassroots Politics - Victoria E. Rodríguez


• 20. Drug-Traffickers as Political Actors in Mexico's Nascent Democracy - John Bailey


• Part VI: Electoral Politics and the Changing Political Landscape


• 21. Changing Dimensions of National Political Elections - James A. McCann


• 22. Mexico's Campaigns and the Benchmark Elections of 2000 and 2006 - Jorge I. Domínguez


• 23. The Return of "the Local " to Mexican Politics - Jonathan Hiskey


• Part VII: Demographics and Political Attitudes


• 24. Who is the Mexican Voter? - Alejandro Moreno


• 25. Polling and Pollsters as Agents of Change: An Historical Account of Public Opinion


• Research in Mexico from 1938 to 2010 - Pablo Páras and Miguel Basáñez


• 26. Regionalism in Mexican Electoral Politics - Joseph L. Klesner


• Part VIII: Politics and Policy Issues


• 27. United States-Mexican Relations and Mexican Domestic Politics - Pamela K. Starr


• 28. Domestic and National Security Challenges in Mexico - David A. Shirk


• 29. Mexico-US Migration Policy: Historical Review and Contemporary Challenges


• - Marc R. Rosenblum


• 30. Economy as Grand-Guignol: The Post-reform Era in Mexico- William P. Glade


• 31. The Path of Economic Liberalism - Mark Eric Williams


• Index

Philip M. McKenna Professor of the Pacific Rim, Claremont McKenna College

Over the course of the thirty-one essays in The Oxford Handbook of Mexican Politics some of the world's leading scholars of Mexico will provide a comprehensive view of the remarkable transformation of the nation's political system to a democratic model. In turn they will assess the most influential institutions, actors, policies and issues in its current evolution toward democratic consolidation.