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John Anderson Slide 2 History of authority Spain -> Varied Mexican regimes -> Mexican Revolution -> PRI -> Modern Era Slide 3 Subject to Spanish rule and oversight (Spanish territory) Monarchy (First Mexican Empire) Republic (First Mexican Republic) Monarchy with supreme authority from France (Second Mexican Empire) Republic turned corrupt (Porfiriato) Corrupt republic from the start (PRI) Actual good republic (Present) Slide 4 Still working on it Slowly getting better Slide 5 .. President has great deal of power; a heavy hand has a history in Mexico Largely implicit Can I be YOUR President? Slide 6 Institutions getting better; reforms under way Institutions are generally seen as legitimate from a rule of law standpoint Slide 7 Extragovernmental powers exist (drug cartels and Government is fighting these Heisenbergs Turf Slide 8 Liberal Democracy - Young Transition to pluralism from corporatism Three main parties: PRI, PAN, and PRD. PRD PRI PAN Large government oversight of economy Slide 9 1521 1821 Part of Viceroyalty of Spain Spanish had best interests of Spain in mind over those of its terrritories Slide 10 General Agustin de Iturbide Helped win control from Spain Ended with Plan of Casa Mata Just look at these sideburns Slide 11 1824 Constitution established the institutions of the new regime Really muddled Second Constitution in 1857 more radical than first Constitution Slide 12 French rule Short-lived My moustache will singlehandedly win all of Mexico Slide 13 Porfirio Diaz won five consecutive elections Great years economically Slide 14 Political turmoil One fifteenth of the population died Slide 15 National Revolutionary Party -> Institutional Revolutionary Party Mexican Miracle 1940-1980 Authoritarian at times Starts falling apart in 1980s, when economy goes through troubles Election fraud Slide 16 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ozAc-Vmbu0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ozAc-Vmbu0 Slide 17 https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppj of8f9_&ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=ny_g dp_pcap_pp_kd&scale_y=log&ind_y=false&rdim=region&id im=country:MEX:USA&ifdim=region&hl=en&dl=en&ind=fals e&icfg&iconSize=0.5 Slide 18 Right-leaning PAN first won provincial election in 1986 Left-leaning PRD split off from PRI in 1989; more truly socialist than PRI claimed to be Slide 19 National identity has bred some level of nationalism Authoritarianism Slide 20 https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world- factbook/geos/mx.html#Econ http://www.history.com/topics/mexico http://www.infoplease.com/country/mexico.html http://www.geographia.com/mexico/mexicohistory.htm http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/History/Mexico-history.htm http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/history/institutional- revolutionary-party.html http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Institutional _Revolutionary_Party.html http://countrystudies.us/mexico/84.htm http://mexicanhistory.org/firstempire.htm http://althistory.wikia.com/wiki/1821-1935_(Mexican_Empire) http://www.oas.org/juridico/mla/en/mex/en_mex-int-text- const.pdfhttp://blogs.loc.gov/law/2011/02/the-history-of-the-mexican- constitution/ http://www.thefreedictionary.com/authority