Mexico’s New Politics: The Weight of the Past

Issue Date October 1997
Volume 8
Issue 4
Page Numbers 28-42
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About the Author

Roberto E. Blum is a senior professional with the Centro de Investigación para el Desarrollo, an independent public-policy think tank in Mexico City. He has taught law and political science at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and Durango State University. Formerly a senior political consultant to the secretary of education and the director of Mexico’s Science and Technology Council, he is the author of De la política mexicana y sus medios (1996).

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