Publication bibliographic information
| Title | Caciquismo in Twentieth-Century Mexico |
| Author name | Alan Knight and Wil Pansters (eds.) |
| ISBN/ISSN | 1900039664 |
| Type of publication | Paperback |
| Year | 2005 |
| Publisher | Institute for the Study of the Americas |
| Where to obtain | ISA, the Brookings Institution via http://bookstore.brookings.edu or Amazon via the address below |
| Price | £17.95 |
| Website address | http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1900039664/qid=1134389198/sr=1-7/ref=sr_1_8_7/202-4154959-1105426 |
| Description | Caciquismo – roughly, ‘boss politics’ – has played a major role in Mexican political and social life; and caciques of diverse character – political, syndical, agrarian, ‘red’, right-wing, and white-collar – have exercised great power within Mexico’s distinctive political system. Indeed, the peculiarities of that system have depended on this kind of informal politics which combines repression, clientelism and charismatic authority. As such, caciquismo fits uncomfortably within the formal analysis of laws, parties and elections, and though its demise has often been predicted, it has survived, evolved and adjusted to Mexico’s rapid post-revolutionary transformation. Embodying the research of historians, political scientists, sociologists and anthropologists, this book reevaluates the crucial role of the cacique in modern Mexico, combining both case studies and more general comparison and theory; it suggests that, thanks to its Protean character, caciquismo has survived decades of change and upheaval and remains an important, if underestimated, feature of recent Mexican politics. CONTENTS: Introduction 1. Caciquismo in Twentieth-century Mexico by Alan Knight Part I: Revolution and its Aftermath 2. The Chegomista Rebellion in Juchitan, 1911-1912: Rethinking the Role of Traditional Caciques in Resisting State Power by Jennie Purnell 3. Naranja Revisited: Agrarian Caciques and the Making of Campesino Identity in Postrevolutionary Michoacan by Christopher R. Boyer 4. God's Caciques: Caciquismo and the Cristero Revolt in Coalcoman by Matthew Butler 5. Caciquismo in the Sierra Norte de Puebla: the Case of Gabriel Barrios Cabrera by Keith Brewster Part II 6. Caciquismo and Cardenismo in the Sierra P'urhepecha, Michoacan by Marco Antonio Calderon 7. Dead-end Caudillismo and Entrepreneurial Caciquismo in Chiapas, 1910-1955 by Stephen E. Lewis 8. The Struggle against Indigenous Caciques in Highland Chiapas: Dissent, Religion and Exile in Chamula, 1965-1977 by Jan Rus 9. En-gendering Caciquismo: Guadalupe Martinez, Heliodoro Hernandez Loza and the Politics of Organized Labour in Jalisco by Maria Teresa Fernandez Aceves Part III: The New Faces of Caciquismo 10. Between Law and Arbitrariness: Labour Union Caciques in Mexico by Salvador Maldonado Aranda 11. Challenging Caciquismo. An Analysis of the Leadership of Carlos Hank Gonzalez by Rogelio Hernandez Rodriguez 12. Caciques and Leaders in the Era of Democracy by Jose Eduardo Zarate Hernandez 13. Building a Cacicazgo in a Neoliberal University by Wil Pansters 14. The Performance and Imagination of the Cacique: some Ethnographic Reflections from Western Mexico by Pieter de Vries Part IV: Conclusions 15. Goodbye to the Caciques? Definition, the State and the Dynamics of Caciquismo in Twentieth-century Mexico by Wil Pansters |
| Discipline | History; politics; sociology; anthropology |
| Country/region | mexico |
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