Mexico’s Victory: The Democratic Revelation

Issue Date October 2000
Volume 11
Issue 4
Page Numbers 5-19
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Vicente Fox’s victory in Mexico’s July 2000 presidential election revealed the fundamental changes that had been taking place under the veil of governmental continuity.

About the Author

Andreas Schedler is professor of political science at CIDE in Mexico City. His most recent book is The Politics of Uncertainty: Sustaining and Subverting Electoral Authoritarianism (2013). At present, he is conducting public-opinion research on organized violence in Mexico.

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Further Reading

Volume 11, Issue 1

Mores and Democracy in Latin America

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Volume 8, Issue 4

Mexico’s New Politics: The Weight of the Past

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Volume 33, Issue 4

Latin America’s Abortion Rights Breakthrough

A recent wave of wins for abortion rights—the “green tide” in Argentina, Mexico, and Colombia—owes its success to framing the issue as a matter of human rights.