| Electoral Competition and Institutional Change in Mexico Contributor(s): Beer, Caroline C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0268027676 ISBN-13: 9780268027674 Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press OUR PRICE: $28.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2003 Annotation: COROLINE C. BEER'S NEW BOOK EXPLORES the consequences of democratic politics in Mexico. Focusing on struggles at the subnational level, she assesses how increased electoral competition alters the long-term distribution of power across political institutions in ways that shift power away from established elites and into the hands of ordinary citizens. Electoral Competition and Institutional Change in Mexico includes compelling case study comparisons of three states with very different experiences with electoral democracy: Guanajuato, Hidalgo, and San Luis Potosi. These cases are then situated within a broader quantitative analysis of all thirty-one Mexican states. Beer's research reverses the causal arrow of many standard studies by focusing on the causes of institutional change rather than the consequences of institutional design. Her analysis reveals that the process of increasing electoral competition has unleashed new forces that have slowly eroded the power of centralized, authoritarian elites in Mexico. Utilizing a theoretical framework that draws on insights from classic democratic theory, new institutionalist literature, and current critiques of contemporary Latin American democracy, Beer's important work represents the first comparative study of state legislatures and governors in Mexico and offers compelling insight into the bottom-up dynamics of Mexico's transition to democracy. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Process - Political Parties - History | Latin America - Mexico - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Democracy |
| Dewey: 320.972 |
| LCCN: 2003004349 |
| Series: Kellogg Institute Democracy and Development |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 6.04" W x 9.18" (0.69 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Cultural Region - Mexican |
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| Publisher Description: This volume offers the definitive account of the life and labors of Edward Sorin, founder of the University of Notre Dame. Born in the west of France in 1814, Sorin was ordained in 1838 and joined the newly founded Congregation of Holy Cross shortly thereafter. In 1841, Father Sorin, along with six Holy Cross brothers, was sent to establish a mission in Indiana. After a year's service in the Vincennes diocese's fledgling parochial schools, Sorin was offered a tract of land in the diocese's northern-most section - on the condition that a college be situated there. Father Sorin and his companions arrived at the lakeside property, located near the south bend of the St. Joseph River, in November 1842. The next year, the state of Indiana granted a charter to what Sorin proudly and reverently called the University of Notre Dame du Lac. In its early days, Father Sorin's university was composed of a few log shacks and a handful of half-educated brothers, only a few of whom could speak English. There was no money and hardly any students. Edward Sorin is a history of the man who overcame great odds to found and grow one of the world's premier Catholic institutions of higher learning. |
Contributor Bio(s): Beer, Caroline C.: - Caroline C. Beer is associate professor of political science at the University of Vermont. |
