Latin America’s Critical Elections: Five Scenarios for Mexico

Issue Date July 1994
Volume 5
Issue 3
Page Numbers 57-71
file Print
arrow-down-thin Download from Project MUSE
external View Citation

About the Author

Denise Dresser is professor of political science at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and a consultant for the United Nations Development Program. She has been a visiting research fellow at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California at San Diego.

View all work by Denise Dresser

Further Reading

Volume 17, Issue 4

A “Left Turn” in Latin America? Problems of Success in Chile

Chile's new Socialist president Michelle Bachelet will seek to maintain the country's socioeconomic progress, but her attempt to cure growing alienation from the traditional parties could create a new set…

Volume 25, Issue 3

Will Malaysia Follow the Path of Taiwan and Mexico?

The hegemonic-party systems of Taiwan and Mexico began to loosen in the 1980s, eventually yielding to democracy. Malaysia’s ruling party, by contrast, has tightened the reins of power in the face of…

Volume 24, Issue 3

Latin America’s Authoritarian Drift: Chavismo After Chávez?

Can a regime built by and centered around a populist strongman survive that strongman’s death? A natural experiment is now unfolding in Venezuela as a resurgent opposition and a crisis…