Title: Bureaucracy and politics in Mexico :
Authors: Torres Espinosa, Eduardo.
Date: 1999
Publisher: Ashgate,
Physical description: xv, 279 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC class: J
Contents: Bureaucracy: A servant or a master? Approaches to the role of bureaucracy A framework for analysis The Mexican bureaucracy: A historical framework Political institutions and rules Government growth and bureaucracy Political and economic management The rise of the government technocrat State intervention and the emergence of the SPP The 'shared development' episode Public expenditure and bureaucracy The 1976 administrative reform Reality versus theory: The SPP critical years Oil and the rise of the SPP Planning and the oil boom The arrival of De la Madrid at the SPP Bureaucracy and the defeat of PEMEX's oil strategy The SPP and the 1982 presidential succession Economic crisis and the SPP's powerful years De la Madrid's attempt to tackle the crisis Enforcing austerity Bureaucratic in-fighting and the opening of the economy A divisive succession process Salinas and the decline of the SPP Salinas' neoliberal strategy Economic policy and bureaucracy PRONASOL: Targeting the poorest Spelling out the causes of the SPP decline Fifteen years of SPP: Conclusions The rise and fall of the SPP: Main implications Recent events and the shadow of the SPP Technocracy and democracy: Friends or foes?