A completely revised and updated version of the widely read first edition, this book offers a comprehensive study of Mexican politics. Needler separates the facade from the reality in examining the political system of this vast country and explains the multiple contradictions that confront the student of Mexican politics. He places the current political system in comparative and historical context giving a subtle yet penetrating analysis of Mexico's current dilemmas. Advanced students of Latin American politics and comparative politics will find this a valuable resource.    . . . Needler has given us a first class analysis of the Mexican political system.                                  Foreign Service JournalA completely revised and updated version of the widely read first edition, this book offers a comprehensive study of Mexican politics. Martin Needler separates the facade from the reality in examining the political system of this vast country and explains the multiple contradictions that confront the student of Mexican politics. He stresses the non-formal democratic elements in the Mexican system while covering the government structure and formal policy. The book places the current political system in comparative and historical context giving a subtle yet penetrating analysis of Mexico's current dilemmas. Advanced students of Latin American politics, comparative politics, and Mexican history, as well as the interested general reader will find Mexican Politics a valuable resource.The book begins with a brief history of Mexico's political system. Needler examines the geographic and social contexts in which the political system functions. This is followed by studies of political parties and their origins, the press and how it functions, the economy, economic policy, and foreign policy. Needler provides an intelligible and much needed understanding of a complex political system providing the reader with the most current information about Mexican politics.

Mexican politics: The containment of conflict (Politics in Latin America)

Needler, Martin C.

Legal Theory & Systems

Hoover Institution Press

Mexican Politics: The Containment of Conflict

History

Americas

Praeger Pub Text

With an accessible, descriptive approach and an easy-to-use, three-part structure within each chapter--political development, process and institutions, and policy--this is a flexible text that is about 25% less expensive than similar texts. Instead of focusing on one perspective to the exclusion of others, Introduction to Comparative Government exposes students to multiple approaches. For example, Chapter 1 proposes a number of alternative classifications of political systems and a general context that allows the systems to be compared in different ways. Instructors and students can choose the comparative approach that they think is most helpful for understanding the whole or parts of political systems. In addition to offering a flexible and inclusive theoretical approach, Introduction to Comparative Government offers nine country study chapters and two region study chapters, each written by a specialist in that area. Each country study chapter has been thoroughly updated, and a new chapter on the Middle East (Ch. 9) has been added to help students better understand the tragedy of September 11, 2001 and its aftermath.

Introduction to Comparative Government, Fifth Edition

Politics & Social Sciences

Fewsmith, Joseph

McNelly, Theodore

Kanet, Roger E.

Politics & Government

Longman Pub. Group

With an accessible, descriptive approach and an easy-to-use, three-part structure within each chapter, this is a flexible comparative text that is about 25% less expensive than its competitors.

Introduction to Comparative Government, Update Edition (5th Edition)

Kommers, Donald

Brown, Bernard E.

McAdams, A. James

Curtis, Michael

Blondel, Jean

Reshetar, John S.

Wright, Stephen

Longman

Intended for use as a text in courses on national security, arms control, and peace studies, this collection of statements by world leaders and eminent scholars offers an accurate and comprehensive guide through the maze of claims and criticisms about "Star Wars," the sensationally controversial effort of the Reagan administration to reorient U.S. nuclear strategy to strategic defense. The contents include a thorough introduction by the editors and individual chapters outlining the strategic defense initiative as originally conceived and subsequently modified by the Reagan administration; the arguments for and against the plan's strategic and technical feasibility; and assessments of the harmful and constructive effects of strategic defense on U.S.-Soviet and U.S.-allied relations.

Strategic Defense Initiative: Folly Or Future?

Engineering & Transportation

Haley, P. Edward

Merritt, Jack

Engineering

Routledge

Nuclear Strategy, Arms Control, and the Future

Nuclear Strategy, Arms Control, And The Future

Keithly, David M.

Military

Westview Press

Nuclear Strategy, Arms Control, And The Future [Sep 10, 1985] Haley, P. Edward; Keithly, David M.; Merritt, Jack and Needler, Martin C

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