Author: Gustavo Flores-Macías | Journal of Democracy

Gustavo A. Flores-Macías is assistant professor of government at Cornell University. He is the author of After Neoliberalism? The Left and Economic Reforms in Latin America (2012).

April 2016, Volume 27, Issue 2

Latin America’s New Turbulence: Mexico’s Stalled Reforms

Gustavo Flores-Macías

The long-ruling PRI staged a comeback in 2012 behind a young president touting a reformist agenda, but Enrique Peña Nieto’s early successes have been eclipsed by government underperformance and a continued failure to restore public security.

January 2013, Volume 24, Issue 1

Mexico’s 2012 Elections: The Return of the PRI

Gustavo Flores-Macías

In July voting, the PRI regained control of the presidency that it had held for seven decades prior to the year 2000. Is this a “new” PRI, or will it return to its old authoritarian ways?