MEXICOOOO Flashcards
Sexenio
The six-year administration of Mexican presidents
Corporatist state
a state in which interest groups become an institutionalized part of the structure
Import Substituting Industrialization (ISI)
Strategy for industrialization based on domestic manufacture of previously imported goods to satisfy domestic market demands
Informal Sector
That portion of hte economy largely outside gov. control in which local tradtional rulers and political strucutes used to help support the colonial governing structure
Mestizo
A person of mized white, indigenous (Amerindian), and sometimes African descent
Indigenous Groups
Population of Amerindian heritage in Mexico
Maquiladoras
Factoreis that produce goods for export often located along side the US-Mexican Border
Clientism
Patronage JOBS
butlike mroe too
NAFTA
largely eliminates trade barriers among the three nations and establishes procedures to resolve trade disputes. NAFTA serves as a model for an eventual Free Trade Area of the Americas zone that could include most Western Hemisphere nations.
Civil Society
the space occupied by voluntary associations outside the state, for example, professional associations (lawyers, doctors, teacher), trade unions, student and women’s groups, religious bodies, and other voluntary association groups. The term is similar to society, although civil society implies a degree of organization absent from the more inclusive term society.
Proportional Representation
a system of political rep. in which seats are alloted to parties within multi-member constituancyies
PR usually encourages the election to parlement of more political parties thatn winner take all
Para-statal
or
State Owned Enterprises
State-owned (or at least state controlled corps) created to undertake a broad range of conrol on activities
marketing to agricutlure
Co-Optation
incorporating activists into the system while accommodating some of their concerns
Camarillas
Vast informal networks of personal royalty that operates as powerful political cliques
INFLUENCE on poltix
Chamber of Deputies
LOWER HOUSE OF MX legislature
Zapatista & Chiapas Rebellion
Souther mx state which had large groups of AN where rebels took up arms and challenged the gov, demanding land reform
Federal Election Commission
IFE
independent regulatory body to safequard hosnes and accurate election results
Vicente Fox
Mexicos president since 2000- 06
the first non-PRI president in over seven decades
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
AMLO
El. Peje
MX politiican who held the position of Head of Gov of the Fed. District form 2000-2005.
20006 he represented the coalition fo the Good of All
PEMEX
Mexicos powerful state owned oil monompoly
PAN
National Action Party
A conservitve catholic mexican ptx party that until 2000 was the main opp to the PRI
POPULAR RIGHT WING PARTY
Very NORTH
Very NEO LIB
PRD
Party of the Dem. Revolution
MX main left of center opp party
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SOCIALIST
WEAKER ON THE LEFT
RUURAL POOOR
PRI
intenede to stablaiz ptx pwr
monopoly of ptx until 20th centry
Zapatistas
Guerilla movement
Gov. responcse w/ repression and negotiation
MORENA
newest ptx party in MX
It is left of center and populist in its approach
Party list system
each party prepares a list of canidites in rant order
each party gets a number of people form list proprotional votes
Dezado
outgoing mx president chose sucessor
FEMICIDE
killing of women b/c of gender
First past the post system
candidate with the most votes wins reglardless of majority
NO RUNNOFF ELECTIONS
Multi party ssytem
3 or more pollitical parties
CIVIL RIGHTS
protect people form arbitrary or discrimination treatment by gov. officials or individuals
CIVIL LIBERATIES
freedoms guqrenteed to all citizens
