When the postwar boom began to dissipate in the late 1960s,
Mexico's middle classes awoke to a new, economically terrifying
world. And following massacres of students at peaceful protests in
1968 and 1971, one-party control of Mexican politics dissipated as
well. The ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party struggled to
recover its legitimacy, but instead saw its support begin to erode.
In the following decades, Mexico's middle classes ended up shaping
the history of economic and political crisis, facilitating the
emergence of neo-liberalism and the transition to democracy. Waking
from the Dream tells the story of this profound change from
state-led development to neo-liberalism, and from a one-party state
to electoral democracy. It describes the fraught history of these
tectonic shifts, as politicians and citizens experimented with
different strategies to end a series of crises. In the first study
to dig deeply into the drama of the middle classes in this period,
Walker shows how the most consequential struggles over Mexico's
economy and political system occurred between the middle classes
and the ruling party.
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