Entre la guerra y la estabilidad política

Essays by specialists in several fields that document current Mexican realities and extrapolate what they might portend for country in future. Encompasses wide range of issues and trends, from ethnicity and peasant communities, to church-state relations, unions, environmental concerns, crime, higher education, urban growth, mobility, corruption, democracy and many more. Organized into sections on population, housing and cities; institutions and public policy; and insertion in globalized world.

Cua les son los usos y abusos de los y las mexicanas en el siglo XXI? Co mo piensan, co mo actu an, que palabras comunes usan? De do nde vienen las familias; co mo gobiernan en Me xico los presidentes; que uso le dan a las leyes? Preguntas que la prestigiada autora del bestseller, "Manual de la gente bien" quiere responder de manera directa, divertida, para hacer sonrei r a los mexicanos y las mexicanas, pero que tambie n los extranjeros residentes en Me xico o fuera del pai s comprendan a esta parte del mundo donde decir " si " puede ser " no", o donde es comu n utilizar palabras amable en...

"Detailed study of Michoacán during the governorship of Félix Ireta Viveros. Emphasizes the connections between local and national political processes and argues that, despite the popularity of Cardenismo in Michoacán, Ireta embraced the agenda of the Avila Camacho administration"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Respected political scientists analyze role of electoral left in parliamentary policy and in construction of quality of government. Also broaches topic of organization of leftist groupings in party form. Written during 2018 presidential campaign when victory of leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was near certainty, proposes thesis that left became one of most powerful electoral forces in Mexico by dint of long years of struggle against repression and by tenacity to insert itself in new democratic order.