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Leticia Reina

Bio: Leticia Reina is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Modern history & Democratization. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications receiving 20 citations.

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26 Jun 2007
TL;DR: Antonio Annino, Guillermo de la Pena, Francois-Xavier Guerra, Friedrich Katz, Alan Knight, Lorenzo Meyer, Leticia Reina, Enrique Semo, Elisa Servin, John Tutino, and Eric Van Young as discussed by the authors explore how Mexico's tumultuous past informs its uncertain present and future.
Abstract: This important collection explores how Mexico’s tumultuous past informs its uncertain present and future. Cycles of crisis and reform, of conflict and change, have marked Mexico’s modern history. The final decades of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries each brought efforts to integrate Mexico into globalizing economies, pressures on the country’s diverse peoples, and attempts at reform. The crises of the late eighteenth century and the late nineteenth led to revolutionary mobilizations and violent regime changes. The wars for independence that began in 1810 triggered conflicts that endured for decades; the national revolution that began in 1910 shaped Mexico for most of the twentieth century. In 2000, the PRI, which had ruled for more than seventy years, was defeated in an election some hailed as “revolution by ballot.” Mexico now struggles with the legacies of a late-twentieth-century crisis defined by accelerating globalization and the breakdown of an authoritarian regime that was increasingly unresponsive to historic mandates and popular demands. Leading Mexicanists—historians and social scientists from Mexico, the United States, and Europe—examine the three fin-de-siecle eras of crisis. They focus on the role of the country’s communities in advocating change from the eighteenth century to the present. They compare Mexico’s revolutions of 1810 and 1910 and consider whether there might be a twenty-first-century recurrence or whether a globalizing, urbanizing, and democratizing world has so changed Mexico that revolution is improbable. Reflecting on the political changes and social challenges of the late twentieth century, the contributors ask if a democratic transition is possible and, if so, whether it is sufficient to address twenty-first-century demands for participation and justice. Contributors . Antonio Annino, Guillermo de la Pena, Francois-Xavier Guerra, Friedrich Katz, Alan Knight, Lorenzo Meyer, Leticia Reina, Enrique Semo, Elisa Servin, John Tutino, Eric Van Young

18 citations


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01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: In this paper, the trajectories of state capacity in France (1789-1970) and Mexico (18101970) are investigated. But the authors do not consider the effects of external shocks on state capacity.
Abstract: ......................................................................................................................................... ii Preface ........................................................................................................................................... iv Table of Contents .......................................................................................................................... v List of Tables .............................................................................................................................. viii List of Figures ............................................................................................................................... ix List of Abbreviations .................................................................................................................... x Acknowledgements ...................................................................................................................... xi Dedication ................................................................................................................................... xiii Chapter 1: Introduction ............................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Case Selection: Revolutions, Popular Incorporation and the Evolution of Public Goods in France and Mexico .............................................................................................................. 8 1.2 Literature Review ......................................................................................................... 12 1.3 Argument: The Organizational Structure of Civil Society, Political Order, and StateSupplied Public Goods .......................................................................................................... 36 1.4 Explaining the trajectories of state capacity in France (1789-1970) and Mexico (18101970) ..................................................................................................................................... 44 1.5 Research Design and Plan of the Dissertation ............................................................. 48 Chapter 2: Critical Juncture: Popular Incorporation, the Social State and State Capacity ...................................................................................................................................... 53 2.1 Introduction .................................................................................................................. 53 2.2 Measurement Challenges in the Study of State Capacity ............................................ 57 2.3 Conceptualizing State Capacity as Public Goods Provision ........................................ 66 vi 2.4 Operationalizing State Capacity as Public Goods Provision ....................................... 71 2.5 Critical Juncture: Popular Incorporation and the Social State ..................................... 74 2.6 War, Commodity Booms, and State Capacity in France and Mexico ......................... 97 2.7 Conclusion: The Puzzle of French and Mexican Political Development .................. 106 Chapter 3: An Organizational Theory of Political Development ......................................... 109 3.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................ 109 3.2 Explaining the Effects of Exogenous Shocks: Strategies of Political Order ............. 111 3.3 Explaining Strategies of Political Order: The Organizational Structure of Civil Society ................................................................................................................................. 122 3.4 Explaining the Transition from Spoils Systems to Social Contracts: The Transformation of Social Relationships .............................................................................. 143 3.5 Conclusion ................................................................................................................. 147 Chapter 4: The Atlantic Revolutions and the Structural Transformation of Organizational Life .............................................................................................................................................. 151 4.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................ 151 4.2 France: Revolution and the Emergence of National Popular Movements ................. 154 4.3 Mexico: Independence and Parochial Political Organizations .................................. 201 4.4 Conclusion ................................................................................................................. 240 Chapter 5: Organizational Structure, Popular Incorporation and Political Order ........... 245 5.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................ 245 5.2 France: Organizational Change and Political Instability ........................................... 250 5.3 Mexico: Lack of Resources and Political Instability ................................................. 301

67 citations

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TL;DR: A focus on transformations in social property relations and engagement with historical sociological debates on modern state formation can contribute to an understanding of the social origins of the transition to capitalism in Mexico as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: A focus on transformations in social property relations and engagement with historical sociological debates on modern state formation can contribute to an understanding of the social origins of the transition to capitalism in Mexico. The basis for capitalist production there was created by primitive accumulation under the conditions of uneven and combined development. This situation can be understood as a “passive revolution” based on state intervention and mass mobilization from below that shaped capital accumulation and political modernization, resulting in a form of capitalism consistent with authoritarian and hegemonic influence.

66 citations

Journal ArticleDOI
01 Nov 2009
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how members of a Mexican NGO community centered in the provincial city of Tulancingo, Hidalgo, rework cultural idioms of mediation to position themselves as legitimate intermediaries linking rural cooperatives, state officials, international donors, and global activist networks.
Abstract: Analysis of the role of NGOs as mediators of change may yield important theoretical insights into the processes by which neoliberalizing projects become embedded in and consequently transformed by specific settings In recent decades, NGOs have played an important role in mediating intertwined and often contradictory processes of political and economic liberalization in countries around the globe However, changes to the political context in which NGOs work have altered the nature of the interventions these groups make This article examines how members of a Mexican NGO community centered in the provincial city of Tulancingo, Hidalgo, rework cultural idioms of mediation to position themselves as legitimate intermediaries linking rural cooperatives, state officials, international donors, and global activist networks Their strategies for confronting their own entrapment in processes of structural reform illuminate the constraints faced by Southern activists in negotiating possibilities for social change after the Washington Consensus They also underline the importance of renewed attention to the role of intermediaries in enabling and enacting structural change

44 citations

Journal ArticleDOI
01 Oct 2009-Americas
TL;DR: Our struggle has its inspirational roots in [our] national history and reality: our flag... is the same raised by Hidalgo, Morelos and Guerrero, Juarez, Zapata and Villa as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: “Our struggle has its inspirational roots in [our] national history and reality: our flag . . . is the same raised by Hidalgo, Morelos and Guerrero, Juarez, Zapata and Villa.” Genaro Vazquez Rojas, La Asociacion Civica Nacional Revolucionaria, 1968

43 citations

Dissertation
01 Jan 2012
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore what it means to be an old woman in 21st century Mexico and present a thematic narrative analysis of data generated by life-story interviews with 32 working and middle-class old women with an age range of 60 to 89.
Abstract: The scarcity of research currently available regarding the individual lived experiences of ageing and old age in Mexico points to our lack of understanding on this subject. Therefore, this thesis aims to advance empirical and theoretical knowledge in social gerontology, particularly in the study of old women. Drawing on a feminist and life course perspective, this thesis explores what it means to be an old woman in 21st century Mexico. The study involved a thematic narrative analysis of data generated by life-story interviews with 32 working and middle-class old women, with an age range of 60 to 89. The analysis shows how old age is both a social construction and a material reality embedded in the women’s cultural, historical and religious locations. Contrary to most current literature on ageing, the analysis also shows how most of these old Mexican women construct ageing and old age as an overall positive experience. Yet, the way they negotiate their ageing identity is not without complexity and ambiguity. On the one hand, they take pride in their age. On the other, they are not immune to utilising ageist discursive practices and attitudes that ironically reinforce old people’s marginalisation. In light of the analysis, the thesis concludes by suggesting an interdisciplinary gerontological approach to the study of the meanings that old women ascribe to their experiences of ageing and old age. First, the focus should be on women’s subjective process of becoming and being old. In other words, the analysis should be based on their personal narratives and the resources they use to construct them. Second, the experience of ageing should be explored from a life course feminist perspective, challenging the dominant negative images of old women, their marginalisation and above all highlighting the positive aspects of their later life. Third, this approach should be combined with the analysis of the female old body, emphasising the diversity and ambivalence of the bodily experiences of ageing. Fourth, social gerontologists should be sensitive to how culture shapes the experience of ageing and old age. Fifth, I argue for opening dialogues regarding the significance of religiosity/spirituality to how old women make sense of their ageing experience and develop strategies for managing their everyday life. Through this line of research, the analysis of ageing and old age could be shifted away from the narrative of decline, recognising old age as the complex and rich process it truly is, full of challenges and opportunities.

32 citations