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Mexico finally shed its authoritarian past with the victory of the PAN candidate Vicente Fox in the 2000 election. But the consolidation and growth of democracy in Mexico have been complicated by the institutional residues of the past. Steven Wuhs's investigation of the PAN and PRD begins by depicting how the PRI functioned and then, in successive chapters, compares how PAN and PRD leaders reacted to the PRI's institutions in choosing rules for selecting candidates to run for office, organizing their party's bureaucracy, and linking to groups in civil society. What he shows is that ""savage democracy has undermined the nomination of electable candidates, fostered intense intraparty factions and fights, and interfered with the development of party organizations capable of mounting effective campaigns.""

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<p> The tale is well told from an institutional standpoint, with careful research and cogent presentation. <p>--E. A. Duff, Choice

Steven Wuhs fills a huge gap in the literature on Mexico's emerging democratic regime with this systematic comparative study of party development of the Institutional Revolutionary Party's two challengers, the National Action Party and the Party of the Democratic Revolution. Drawing on the vast scholarship on political parties and his extensive field research, Wuhs shows how the PAN's institutional development allowed it to best the PRD in the quest to oust the PRI. --Joseph L. Klesner, Kenyon College

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Steven T. Wuhs is Director of the Salzburg Program at the University of Redlands, USA.

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