Tag: Mexico
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Mexico’s Constitutional Democracy in Crisis: The Judicial Overhaul is Only the Beginning
—Mariana Velasco-Rivera, Maynooth University, Jaime Olaiz, Universidad Panamericana, and Irene Parra Prieto, ITAM [Editor’s Note: Cross-posted from the IACL-AIDC blog.] The final act of Mexican President López Obrador will be in collaboration with the president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum and the newly elected Congress, after the landslide victory of MORENA’s coalition last June.
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The Dynamics of Constitutional Change in Mexico 1997-2012: New Data from Reformar sin Mayorias
Editor’s Note: Last Friday, I was honored to participate in an event in Mexico City for the publication of a new book, Reformar sin Mayorias (Reforming without Majorities) on the recent pattern of constitutional amendment in Mexico. The book, edited by the distinguished scholars María Amparo Casar and Ignacio Marván, is in Spanish but has some…