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OverviewMexican politics in the twentieth century was dominated by two complementary paradigms: the rhetoric of the Mexican Revolution and the existence of an “official” party. The Mexican Revolution has enjoyed a long and voluminous historiography; the “official” party has not. While the importance of the Revolution as a historical period is self-evident, the development of a party based on the political aspirations of the surviving revolutionary elites has not generally sparked as much historical interest. This book traces the path of the party, founded as the Partido Nacional Revolucionario (PNR), through its reformation as the Partido de la Revolución Mexicana (PRM) in 1938 and then as the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) in 1946, which finally fell from power in 2000. Aaron Navarro shows how the transformation of the PRM into the PRI, the removal of the military from electoral politics, the resettlement of younger officers in the intelligence services, and the inculcation of a new discipline among political elites all produced the conditions that allowed for the dominance of a single-party structure for decades. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Aaron W. Navarro (Associate Professor, Trinity University)Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.472kg ISBN: 9780271037066ISBN 10: 0271037067 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 15 November 2012 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsAaron Navarro's study of mid-20th century Mexican politics is welcome--not just as a significant contribution to the historiography of the post-revolutionary period, but also as an insightful account of the development of institutions that continue to play an important part in Mexico's national life. </p>--Halbert Jones, <em>ReVista Magazine</em></p> Aaron Navarro s excellent book should transform our understanding of how Mexican politics developed into the regime Mexico endured from World War II into the 1980s. This study is the first incisive explanation of a highly critical factor in the making of modern Mexico, the making of its terrifically violent politics into the post-Revolutionary state. Richly informed by massive original research in newly opened Mexican public and private archives (among them the tremendous federal investigative files), drawing deep on U.S. State and several other department files, clear and cogent in its argument, it opens the way for the first historically serious explorations of political struggle in that now old regime before its collapse in the 1990s. John Womack Jr., Robert Woods Bliss Professor Emeritus of Latin American History and Economics, Harvard University This imaginative and provocative work explores Mexican politics historically through three influential elections--1940, 1946, and 1952--focusing on the importance of opposition leaders and politics while delving deep into the evolution of civil-military relations and the growth of political intelligence agencies. Navarro's research is based on extensive original archival sources in Mexico, a noteworthy accomplishment given the difficulty of obtaining access to historical data about the military and the intelligence agencies. Indeed, no other researcher on Mexico has compiled such a record of this material. Navarro aptly uses these sources to offer significant, fresh arguments that contradict existing views and are essential for understanding the crucial development of civil-military relations influencing Mexican politics to this day. --Roderic Ai Camp, Claremont McKenna College Aaron Navarro s excellent book should transform our understanding of how Mexican politics developed into the regime Mexico endured from World War II into the 1980s. This study is the first incisive explanation of a highly critical factor in the making of modern Mexico, the making of its terrifically violent politics into the post-Revolutionary state. Richly informed by massive original research in newly opened Mexican public and private archives (among them the tremendous federal investigative files), drawing deep on U.S. State and several other department files, clear and cogent in its argument, it opens the way for the first historically serious explorations of political struggle in that now old regime before its collapse in the 1990s. </p> John Womack Jr., Robert Woods Bliss Professor Emeritus of Latin American History and Economics, Harvard University</p> Author InformationAaron W. Navarro is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Texas. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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