The Mexican Revolution's Wake: The Making of a Political System, 1920-1929 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108401289)

Throughout the 1920s Mexico was rocked by attempted coups, assassinations, and popular revolts. Yet by the mid-1930s, the country boasted one of the most stable and durable political systems in Latin America. In the first book on party formation conducted at the regional level after the Mexican Revolution, Sarah Osten examines processes of political and social change that eventually gave rise to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which dominated Mexico's politics for the rest of the twentieth century. In analyzing the history of socialist parties in the southeastern states of Campeche, Chiapas, Tabasco, and Yucat n, Osten demonstrates that these 'laboratories of revolution' constituted a highly influential testing ground for new political traditions and institutional structures. The Mexican Revolution's Wake shows how the southeastern socialists provided a blueprint for a new kind of party that struck calculated balances between the objectives of elite and popular forces, and between centralized authority and local autonomy.

Author: Sarah Osten
ISBN-10: 1108401287
ISBN-13: 9781108401289
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/30/2019
Pages: 303
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68d