Taking on Goliath the emergence of a new left party and the struggle for democracy in Mexico /
Kathleen Bruhn
- Pensylvania : The Pensylvania State Univesity Press, 1997
- xiv, 369 p.
Democratization and party system change : The rise and fall of the Cárdenas left, 1. -- Being priista is like being catholic : The institutional and political context, 31. -- The birth of a new political option : Economic crisis, neoliberal policies, and detachment, 67. -- A trip to the moon and banck again : Party emergence and consolidation in the 1988 presidential election, 115. -- Problems of party building : Democracy, intitutionalization, and activist retention, 165. -- Cardenismo under siege : Building relationships with other actors, 208. -- Reshaping electoral patterns : The electoral mis fortunes of the PRD, 250. -- New parties and the dynamics of democratization, 300