Hacia una conducción política presidencialista con sistema de partidos

La reforma del Estado en México, 1982-1997

Abstract

TOWARD PRESIDENTIALIST POLITICAL LEADERSHIP WITH A PARTY SYSTEM. STATE REFORM IN MEXICO, 1982-1997 This article offers an overview of the 1982-1997 period of state reform in Mexico vis-à-vis the exercise of power and in terms of conjunctural analysis: study of the conjuntural situation, process follow-up, and construction of periods. With these criteria the reform of the state is divided into two main conjunctures that define two subperiods: the firs is called "The crisis of presidentialist political leadership, 1982-1994" and the second is "The transition to political leadership with a party system, 1994-1997. "The article's central hypothesis is that over more than a decade a half, Mexico evolved from a system that, wuile still maintaining key features of the regime established in 1917, has changed substantially thanks to the implementation of far reaching institutional control policies.