Author: Gustavo Flores-Macías | Journal of Democracy

Gustavo A. Flores-Macías is professor of government and public policy at Cornell University. He is the author of After Neoliberalism? The Left and Economic Reforms in Latin America (2012).

April 2016, Volume 27, Issue 2

Latin America’s New Turbulence: Mexico’s Stalled Reforms

Gustavo Flores-Macías

The long-ruling PRI staged a comeback in 2012 behind a young president touting a reformist agenda, but Enrique Peña Nieto’s early successes have been eclipsed by government underperformance and a continued failure to restore public security.

January 2013, Volume 24, Issue 1

Mexico’s 2012 Elections: The Return of the PRI

Gustavo Flores-Macías

In July voting, the PRI regained control of the presidency that it had held for seven decades prior to the year 2000. Is this a “new” PRI, or will it return to its old authoritarian ways?