Power from Experience: Urban Popular Movements in Late Twentieth-Century Mexico

by Paul Lawrence Haber

Book Overview

When Vicente Fox was elected Mexico's president in 2000, the world's most enduring twentieth-century authoritarian regime finally came to an end. In this book Paul Haber explains how urban popular movements contributed to such a historic transition. In the 1960s Mexico's urban poor, effectively incorporated into institutionalized forms of clientelism and cooptation, were perceived as passive and acquiescent. Their situation changed during the 1970s,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271027088
• ISBN13: 9780271027081
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"