New Resources
MEXICO Nora Hamilton, The Limits of State Autonomy: Post Revolutionary Mexico (Princeton University Press, 1982). $36, cloth; $8.95, paper, 410 pgs. Excellent study of historical and...
...35, cloth...
...While vague and inconclusive, these remarks point to the theme running through all these papers: the enormous importance of broad-based political participation in development programs...
...education...
...Program in U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California...
...A preliminary, skeptical response to the creation of SAM, a policy developed by an "elite advisory group" in the president's office without consultation with either peasant and farmer groups or important agricultural agencies...
...3, paper, 28 pgs...
...Adds an important historical dimension to studies of Mexican elites, thereby adding to understanding of elite transformation and how an authoritarian (defined by limited pluralism) system operates...
...Program in U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California...
...Identifies characteristics of the pre-revolutionary order, contradictions within it which resulted in the revolution, and the effect of the revolution on the relations between the state and dominant and subordinate classes...
...elective, party and bureaucratic positions...
...Based on fieldwork, interviews and government documents...
...A poor attempt to apply concepts from political geography to differential regional development...
...An excellent study of rural development efforts of the last 10 years, comparing policies for rural development under former presidents Echeverria and Lopez Portillo...
...Merilee S. Grindle, Official Interpretations of Rural Underdevelopment: Mexico in the 1970s (Working Paper in U.S.-Mexican Studies, #20, University of California, 1981...
...Program in U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California...
...3, paper, 51 pgs...
...Publications Coordinator, Program in U.S.-Mexican Studies, Q-060, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92092...
...Embraces recent debates on class/state relations as well as the numerous re-examinations of Mexico's political history, greatly enriching the reader's understanding of state theory and Mexican development...
...Bailey and Link criticize SAM's failure to anticipate organized resistance...
...Excellent study of historical and structural explanations of the modern Mexican state...
...Includes origins...
...Carlos de Gortari, Political Participation, Public Investment, and Support for the System: A Comparative Study of Rural Communities in Mexico (Research Report Series, #35, 1982...
...University of Arizona Press, Sunnyside Building, 250 E. Valencia, Tucson, AZ 85706...
...interest group association...
...Biographies of men prominent in public life from 1935 to mid-1980...
...11.50, paper, 400 pgs...
...35, cloth, 447 pgs...
...A detailed study of the class composition of the political elite in 20th century Mexico through a computer analysis of the career paths of 6,000 individuals who held national political office between 1900 and 1976...
...John J. Bailey and John E. Link, Statecraft and Agriculture in Mexico, 1980-1982: Domestic and Foreign Policy Considerations in the Making of Mexican Agricultural Policy (Working Paper in U.S.-Mexican Studies, #23, University of California, 1981...
...3, paper, 41 pgs...
...Collectively, they document incremental changes in career paths and recruitment patterns...
...Serious attempt to evaluate the ability of the Echeverria program to obtain the active participation of campesinos in target areas, including an implicit objective of awakening in them "a sense of dependence upon and loyalty toward the State...
...Manuel L. Carlos, State Policies, State Penetration, and Ecology: A Comparative Analysis of Uneven Development and Underdevelopment in Mexico's Micro Agrarian Regions (Working Paper in U.S.-Mexican Studies, #19, 1981...
...Written by a PRI member and director of its Institute of Political, Economic and Social Studies, this is not the self-congratulatory study one might expect...
...3, paper, 42 pgs...
...Study found that the mode of participation which the government has encouraged as a strategy for rural modernization-community problem solving-is negatively correlated with support for the system...
...Less an analysis (or even a systematic statement of goals and intent) than a PR piece, and useful only to see the changes in emphasis from the Echeverria program and their justification...
...A circular argument unaided by maps or other identifying criteria for various regions...
...Luiselli was a member of Lopez Portillo's cabinet responsible for the design and implementation of the rural development program...
...Princeton University Press, 3175 Princeton Pike, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648...
...While less interesting than Smith's work, still a valuable resource...
...3, paper, 47 pgs...
...Roderic A. Camp, Mexican Political Biographies, 1935-1975 (University of Arizona Press, 2nd edition, 1982...
...Defines development in terms of degree of integration with the national market, then classifies regions according to their ties with state agencies (and market-oriented programs), concluding that underdevelopment results from inadequate numbers of such ties...
...Program in U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California...
...Concludes that the 1910 revolution did not actually alter the class composition of the political elite, but merely redistributed power within the ruling class...
...Author concludes that neither Echeverria's commitment to ejido development nor Lopez Portillo's more accommodationist policies succeeded in either raising agricultural productivity or improving rural welfare--due in part to institutional obstacles, but primarily to their failure to confront the fundamental imcompatibility of subsistence production with large-scale capitalist production...
...Peter H. Smith, Labyrinths of Power: Political Recruitment in Twentieth-Century Mexico (Princeton University Press, 1979...
...Cassio Luiselli, The Sistema Alimentario Mexicano (SAM): Elements of a Program of Accelerated Production of Basic Foodstuffs in Mexico (Research Report Series, #22, 1982...
Vol. 17 • May 1983 • No. 3
