Dictablanda book

In 1910 Mexicans rebelled against an imperfect dictatorship after 1940 they ended up with what some called the perfect dictatorship A single party ruled Mexico for over seventy years holding elections and talking about revolution while overseeing one of the world s most inequitable economies The contributors to this groundbreaking collection revise earlier interpretations arguing that state power was not based exclusively on hegemony corporatism or violence Force was real but it was also exercised by the ruled It went hand in hand with consent produced by resource regulation political pragmatism local autonomies and a popular veto The result was a dictablanda a soft authoritarian regime. EBook dictablanda This deliberately heterodox volume brings together social historians anthropologists sociologists and political scientists to offer a radical new understanding of the emergence and persistence of the modern Mexican state It also proposes bold multidisciplinary approaches to critical problems in contemporary politics With its blend of contested elections authoritarianism and resistance Mexico foreshadowed the hybrid regimes that have spread across much of the globe Dictablanda suggests how they may endure. Dictablanda berenguer Contributors Roberto Blancarte Christopher R Boyer Guillermo de la Pe a Mar a Teresa Fern ndez Aceves Paul Gillingham Rogelio Hern ndez Rodr guez Alan Knight Gladys McCormick Tanal s Padilla Wil G Pansters Andrew Paxman Jaime Pensado Pablo Piccato Thomas Rath Jeffrey W Rubin Benjamin T Smith Michael Snodgrass Dictablanda Politics Work and Culture in Mexico 1938 1968