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“Still Disputing After All These Years”: Recent Work on the Mexican Political Economy

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MEXICO'S ECONOMIC CRISIS: ITS ORIGINS AND CONSEQUENCES. By RAMÍREZMIGUEL D. (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1989. Pp. 149. $37.95.)

STATE AND CAPITAL IN MEXICO: DEVELOPMENT POLICY SINCE 1940. By CYPHERJAMES M. (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1990. Pp. 220. $32.00 paper.)

MEXICO'S SEARCH FOR A NEW DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY. Edited by BROTHERSDWIGHT and WICKSADELE. (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1990. Pp. 378. $39.95.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

Miguel Angel Centeno*
Affiliation:
Princeton University
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Copyright © 1992 by the University of Texas Press

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Notes

1. Rolando Cordera Campos and Carlos Tello, Disputa por la nación (Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno, 1979).

2. Michael Meyer and William Sherman, The Course of Mexican History, 3d ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987).

3. See Judith Teichman's Policymaking in Mexico (Boston, Mass.: Allen and Unwin, 1988), which was reviewed previously in LARR. See also José López Portillo, Mis tiempos (Mexico City: Fernández, 1988).

4. See Peter Evans, Dependent Development (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1979); and Fernando Cardoso and Enzo Faletto, Dependency and Development in Latin America (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1979).

5. For an excellent anthology containing the work of prominent Mexican political scientists, see Mexico, el reclamo democrático: homenaje a Carlos Pereyra, edited by Rolando Cordera Campos, Raúl Trejo Delarbre, and Juan Enrique Vega (Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno, 1988). Another excellent collection is La vida política mexicana en la crisis, edited by Soledad Loaeza and Rafael Segovia (Mexico City: Colegio de México, 1987).

6. A similar opportunity is afforded by the conference papers published as Cambio estructural en México y en el mundo, edited by the Secretaría de Programación y Presupuesto (Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1987).

7. The results from the wage and price survey by INEGI/SPP in 1989 may also give a better indication of the costs of austerity. The publication of this data, however, has been “mysteriously” delayed.

8. See Héctor Guillén Romo, Orígines de la crisis in México, 1940–1982 (Mexico City: Era, 1984).

9. Contributions with a similar institutional focus include those of Susan Street on education, Rose Spalding on the Instituto Mexicano de Seguro Social, John Bailey on the SPP, José Antonio Alderete on Infonavit, George Grayson and Gabriel Szekely on oil, Merilee Grindle on CONASUPO, Viviane Brachet-Márquez on health, and David Ronfeldt on the military.

10. Rafael Segovia, La politización del niño mexicano (Mexico City: Colegio de México, 1975). See also John Booth and Mitchell Seligson, “The Political Culture of Authoritarianism in Mexico: A Reexamination,” LARR 19, no. 1 (1984):106–24.

11. Richard Fagen and William Tuohy, Politics and Privilege in a Mexican City (Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1972).

12. Popular Movements and Political Change in Mexico, edited by Joe Foweraker and Ann Craig (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 1990).