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John Anderson
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History of authority
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Spain -> Varied Mexican regimes -> Mexican Revolution ->
PRI -> Modern Era
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Subject to Spanish rule and oversight (Spanish territory)
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Monarchy (First Mexican Empire)
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Republic (First Mexican Republic)
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Monarchy with supreme authority from France (Second Mexican Empire)
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Republic turned corrupt (Porfiriato)
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Corrupt republic from the start (PRI)
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Actual good republic (Present)
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Still working on it
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Slowly getting better
..
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President has great deal of power; a heavy hand has a
history in Mexico
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Largely implicit
Can I be YOUR
President?
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Institutions getting better; reforms under way
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Institutions are generally seen as legitimate from a rule of
law standpoint
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Extragovernmental powers exist (drug cartels and
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Government is fighting these
Heisenberg’s Turf
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Liberal Democracy - Young
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Transition to pluralism from corporatism
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Three main parties: PRI, PAN, and PRD.
PRD
PRI
PAN
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Large government oversight of economy
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1521 – 1821
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Part of Viceroyalty of Spain
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Spanish had best interests of Spain in mind over those of
its terrritories
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General Agustin de Iturbide
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Helped win control from Spain
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Ended with Plan of Casa Mata
Just look at
these
sideburns
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1824 Constitution established the institutions of the new
regime
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Really muddled
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Second Constitution in 1857 more radical
than first Constitution
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French rule
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Short-lived
My moustache
will
singlehandedly
win all of
Mexico
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Porfirio Diaz “won” five consecutive elections
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Great years economically
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Political turmoil
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One fifteenth of the population died
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National Revolutionary Party -> Institutional Revolutionary Party
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Mexican Miracle 1940-1980
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Authoritarian at times
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Starts falling apart in 1980’s, when economy goes through
troubles
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Election fraud
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ozAc-Vmbu0
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Right-leaning PAN first won provincial election in 1986
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Left-leaning PRD split off from PRI in 1989; more truly
socialist than PRI claimed to be
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National identity has bred some level of nationalism
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Authoritarianism
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https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-worldfactbook/geos/mx.html#Econ
http://www.history.com/topics/mexico
http://www.infoplease.com/country/mexico.html
http://www.geographia.com/mexico/mexicohistory.htm
http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/History/Mexico-history.htm
http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/history/institutionalrevolutionary-party.html
http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Institutional
_Revolutionary_Party.html
http://countrystudies.us/mexico/84.htm
http://mexicanhistory.org/firstempire.htm
http://althistory.wikia.com/wiki/1821-1935_(Mexican_Empire)
http://www.oas.org/juridico/mla/en/mex/en_mex-int-textconst.pdfhttp://blogs.loc.gov/law/2011/02/the-history-of-the-mexicanconstitution/
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/authority