Mexico’s New Politics: The Elections of 1997

Issue Date October 1997
Volume 8
Issue 4
Page Numbers 13-27
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About the Author

Chappell Lawson is associate professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he holds the Class of 1954 Career Development Chair. He is the author of Building the Fourth Estate: Democratization and the Rise of a Free Press in Mexico (2002) and coeditor of Mexico’s Pivotal Democratic Election: Candidates, Voters, and the Presidential Campaign of 2000 (forthcoming).

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