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case study of mexio in term of democracy​

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Mexico’s Shaky Democratic Foundation

Although Mexico’s 1917 constitution called for a democratic government, democracy[1] did not even begin to take shape in Mexico until the late 1900s. For most of the twentieth century, Mexico was ruled by the authoritarian-minded Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), a monopolistic political grouping infamous for imposing a clientelistic and patronage-based social order.  Though its peremptory rule wore a deceptive democratic disguise, with all of its forms and trappings conveyed through elections and campaigns, it was largely a façade. Included in the injustices promoted by the PRI through manipulation of the voting system, the party also dominated Mexico’s politics on both the national and state levels. Thus, this militarized rule prevented the authentic practice of democracy by often nullifying what should have been the effective powers of the electorate. [2]

The PRI’s iron stronghold began to loosen when a civic-cultural movement manifested in response to the economic struggles breaking out across the country. One example of the movement was the 2001 establishment of the National Women’s Institute (INMUJERES), a government agency whose purpose was to promote gender equality throughout the nation. Yet another sign of progress was the creation of the Federal Institute of Transparency and Access to Information in 2002. Not only was the body given the task of enforcing the nation’s freedom of information law at the Federal level, but it was also meant to grant requests from the public citizenry. Other grassroots movements supported such advancements at the Federal level. Together, the creation of human rights groups across the nation produced a civil society centered on the struggle for increased political and economic rights, as well as on the guarantee of legitimate democratic processes and a firm rule of law. [2]

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