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Political Reformism in Mexico: An Overview of Contemporary Mexican Politics. By Stephen D. Morris. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1995. 261p. $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper.
Roderic Ai Camp, Tulane University
Morris, who previously published the first book on Mexico that wrestled with the complex issue of political corruption, explores in this work the hot topic of political liberalism. Although numerous collections have appeared in the past few years on Mexican political or economic reforms, or on the connections between the two, few lengthy interpretations are available by an individual author. This author's focus is on the specific linkage between political reform and change, and the interaction and consequences of one on the other.
Professor Morris approaches the topic by dividing his discussion into three parts. The first of these, the bulk of the book, lays out the larger political context in Mexico, developing the background to the crisis in that country in the 1980s and 1990s. The...