{"product_id":"9781565846166","title":"Perpetuating Power: How Mexican Presidents Were Chosen","description":" The widely acclaimed explication of Mexican politics from \"oneof the most insightful Mexican intellectuals\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e). Jorge Castañeda, recently named Mexico's foreign minister, has been both an insider and an outsider in Mexico's political system. In \u003ci\u003ePerpetuating Power\u003c\/i\u003e, he lays bare the often mystifying workings of power in Mexico, offering readers what the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e called \"an unusually revealing explication of the inner workings of three decades of presidential succession.\" To outside observers, Mexico stood out for its odd mixture of democratic pretension with autocratic inevitability: there were always elections, but everyone knew the next president would be the candidate of the aptly named Party of the Institutional Revolution, which governed Mexico throughout most of the last century. In six penetrating essays combined with interviews by Castañeda with each of the living Mexican ex-presidents, \u003ci\u003ePerpetuating Power\u003c\/i\u003e provides a remarkably candid account of the political machinery behind Mexican presidential politics and a view, startling to political outsiders, of how power really operates. \u003cp\u003eAuthor Biography: \u003cb\u003eJorge G. Castañeda,\u003c\/b\u003e Mexican foreign minister, is the author of many books on Mexican and Latin American politics, including \u003ci\u003eThe Mexican Shock\u003c\/i\u003e (The New Press) and \u003ci\u003eUtopia Unarmed\u003c\/i\u003e. He has been a professor of political science at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, in Mexico City, and at New York University. Translator \u003cb\u003ePadraic Arthur Smithies\u003c\/b\u003e lives in Mexico City.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Press, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47064441848048,"sku":"9781565846166","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781565846166_p0.jpg?v=1763786849","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781565846166","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}