Palace Politics: How the Ruling Party Brought Crisis to Mexico

摘要

Despite the voluminous literature on Mexican politics under the PRI, few studies penetrated the secrecy cloaking the system. Insider accounts were not only rare and considered a violation of a basic tenet of the system, but politicians, reminiscent of Cantinflas, perfected the language of dissimulation to hide the true inner workings of the system. But based on over a hundred detailed interviews with members of the ruling elite, including former presidents, Schlefer in Palace Politics peers into the mechanics of the historic system, offering intriguing insights that complement our understanding of the system and that in ways challenge some of the traditional views on its dynamics.