Power from experience
Subtitle: urban popular movements in late twentieth-century Mexico
By: Paul Lawrence Haber.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: University Park
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Social movements -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century; Political participation -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century; Mexico -- Social conditions -- 1970-; Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1988-
Description: "When Vicente Fox was elected Mexico's president in 2000, the world's most enduring twentieth-century authoritarian regime finally came to an end. In this book, Paul Haber explains how urban popular movements contributed to such a historic transition."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Theory and method for a phenomenological and institutional study of social movements; title: Mexico at the zenith of the 1980s protest cycle; title: The seesaw political economy of recovery, crisis, and democratic transition (1988/2000); title: The Comité de Defensa Popular de Francisco Villa de Durango; title: The Asamblea de Barrios of Mexico City; title: Comparisons and conclusions.