1. Introduction
2. All Politics is Local: Mexico's Local Path to Democracy?
3. The Fall and Rise of Party Militants
4. Democratic Demographics, Does Democracy Alter Politicians'
Origins?
5. Has Democracy Favored Women Politicians?
6. The Rise and the Fall of the Economic Technocrats
7. Political Institutionalization and Public Policy, the Impact of
the Alemán Generation
8. Is One Career More Democratic Than Another?
9. Violence and Democracy, Which Produces Change?
10. Governors: National Democrats of the Future?
11. Themes on Mexican Leadership and Democracy
Roderic Ai Camp is Philip M. McKenna Professor of the Pacific Rim at Claremont McKenna College and serves on the Advisory Board of the Mexican Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in the Smithsonian Institution. His books include Politics in Mexico (OUP 2006) and Mexico: What Everyone Needs to Know (OUP 2011).
"Using an unrivaled data set of 4,500 officeholders over 75 years
of Mexico's history, which he has refined over decades, Camp
reaches some remarkable but well-founded conclusions. Indeed, The
Metamorphosis of Leadership in a Democratic Mexico may be the best
contemporary study of the sociological, demographic, and political
characteristics of a nation's ruling elites anywhere."
--Perspectives on Politics
"Who leads Mexico? What difference has democratization made in
determining who Mexican leaders are, and how have institutional
changes affected the rise of new leaders? In this book, Roderic
Camp addresses these fundamental questions. He is the premier
scholar of Mexican leaders in many professions, sectors, and
institutions. This work builds on, and crowns, a remarkable
scholarly achievement carried out over four decades."
--Jorge I. Domínguez, Antonio Madero Professor of Mexican and Latin
American Politics and Economics, Harvard University
"Roderic Camp, with the acuity made possible by three decades of
investigation of the political system and by hundreds of interviews
with politicians and other elites, has written a masterful
narrative of recent Mexican events. He asks the right, tough
questions: which produces change - violence or democracy? Has
democracy promoted women politicians? Is one career more democratic
than others? Each of his eleven chapters raises provocative,
significant questions
and then answers them. He places in context the most perplexing
problems of the day, immigration to the U.S. and elsewhere,
violence on the border, and illegal drug culture. Anyone interested
in
modern Mexico must read this book."
--William H. Beezley, Professor of History, University of Arizona,
and co-editor of The Oxford History of Mexico
"Camp is the leading scholar on Mexican elites. Highly
recommended."--CHOICE
"[Camp], the dean of studies of Mexican political leadership,
captures the evolution of Mexico's political system from the 1930s
to 2010. Many of his results are either counterintuitive - party
militancy generally greater among Panistas than Priistas - or
unexpected. A must-read for anyone who hopes to know
Mexico"--Library of Congress Handbook of Latin American Studies
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