Cnsr SIUDY: MEXlco

Studying Mexico introduces students of AP Comparative Government and Politics to a lesserldeveloped country that is today considered to be a full democracy. Mexico is also classifled as a newly industrialized

country (NIC) due

developing country. Add.itionally, Mexico has a rising middle class and a diverse ec6nomy as 4 result of open trade progframs such as the North American Free Trade Agrreement (NAFTA). Observers are optimistic that the single-party dominance has ended. Nevertheless, Mexico is by no means free of troubles. Still plagued by poverty, violence from the drug trade, and emigrration to the north, Mexico has challenges not faced on this scale by developed countries.

to its

relatively high level

of industry for

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Tenus
National Action ParW 6PAN)*

cacrque

camarillas debt crisis ejidos Federal Electoral Institute (IFE)* haciendas

North American Free Trade Agrreement (NAFTA)

one PartY-dominant system ParW of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).

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patnon-client Politics PEMEX pendulum effect

Institufional RevolutionarY
ParW (PRI)*

maquiladoras mestizos

princiPle of nonreelection
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multiparty system

"Term is provided in English with the commonly used acronyrn of the Spanish term provided in parentheses.