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Labyrinths of Power - Political Recruitment in Twentieth-Century Mexico (Paperback)
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Labyrinths of Power - Political Recruitment in Twentieth-Century Mexico (Paperback)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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Peter Smith has written a comprehensive and in-depth study of the
structure and more important of the transformation of the national
political elite in twentieth-century Mexico. In doing so, he
analyzes the long-run impact of the Mexican Revolution of 1910 on
the composition of the country's ruling elite. Included in his
focus are such issues as the social basis of politics, the
recruitments process, political career patterns, the amount of
periodic turnover, and the relationships between the political and
economic elites. The author explores these issues through an
empirical, computer-assisted investigation of biographical
information on more than 6,000 individuals who held national
political office in Mexico at any time between 1900 and 1976. He
then employs various comparative and statistical techniques, along
with a use of archival data, questionnaires, and interviews, to
determine precisely how Mexico's political system actually works.
Professor Smith finds that the Revolution of 1910 did not
fundamentally alter the class composition of the national elite,
although it did redistribute power within it. He further observes
that the Mexican Revolution did bring about a separation of
political and economic elites, and that the route to political
success is much more varied and less predictable now than before
the revolutionary period. Originally published in 1979. The
Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology
to again make available previously out-of-print books from the
distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These
editions preserve the original texts of these important books while
presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The
goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access
to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books
published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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