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Mexico: Economic Reform and Political Change

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DEMOCRACY WITHIN REASON: TECHNOCRATIC REVOLUTION IN MEXICO. By CentenoMiguel Angel. (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994), Pp. 272. $35.00 cloth, $15.95 paper.)
THE DYNAMICS OF DOMINATION: STATE, CLASS, AND SOCIAL REFORM IN MEXICO, 1910–1990. By Brachet-MárquezViviane. (Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994. Pp. 251. $59.95 cloth.)
POLITICS IN MEXICO. By CampRoderic Ai. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. 200. $39.95 cloth, $14.95 paper.)

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

Judith A. Teichman
Judith A. Teichman*
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , 1996 , pp. 252 - 262
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Copyright © 1996 by the University of Texas Press

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1. The term flexibilización (making labor more flexible) refers to modifications in collective labor law with the objectives of increasing productivity and international competitiveness.

2. Alianza Cívica, the largest and most independent observer organization, declared that although irregularities likely affected the distribution of seats in the Senate and Chamber of Deputies, they probably did not alter the results of the presidential contest in 1988. See “Las anomalías no alteran el resultado: Alianza Cívica,” La Jornada, 20 Sept. 1994, p. 1.

3. The reform privatized ejido (communal Indian) lands, giving peasants the legal right to hold title to land and therefore the right to sell it, rent it, or use it to form joint ventures with agribusiness.