Mexican Political and Economic Reforms and Model Transformation

Author: Xu Shicheng
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: This book primarily introduces and analyzes Mexico's modernization process since the early 20th century, with a focus on analyzing political and economic reforms and model transformations since the 1960s. Politically, through reforms, Mexico transitioned from a special political model—the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) long-term one-party presidential rule—to a situation where the PRI lost the 2000 election, opposition parties came to power, and a three-party competition emerged. Economically, it shifted from inward-looking import-substitution industrialization in the 1930s and 1940s to an outward-oriented neoliberal market economy. The book analyzes the main reasons for the Institutional Revolutionary Party's ousting after 71 years in power and examines the changes in Mexico's political and economic models following the rise of opposition leader Vicente Fox.