Taking on Goliath: The Emergence of a New Left Party and the Struggle for Democracy in Mexico

by Kathleen Bruhn

Taking on Goliath analyzes the formation and decline of the most successful opposition party challenge to Mexico's long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which, until 1988, had ruled unchallenged for more than sixty years. The emergence of this new left opposition in 1988 shattered the myth of PRI invincibility. However, its failure to capitalize on its initial success raises intriguing questions about the relationship between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271025115
• ISBN13: 9780271025117
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"