Mexico, 1940–1968 and Beyond: Perfect Dictatorship? Dictablanda? or PRI State Hegemony?

Abstract

Vaughan reviews The War Has Brought Peace to Mexico: World War II and the Consolidation of the Post-Revolutionary State by Halbert Jones, Mexico's Once and Future Revolution: Social Upheaval and the Challenge of Rule since the Late Nineteenth Century by Gilbert M. Joseph and Jürgen Buchenau and The Logic of Compromise in Mexico: How the Countryside Was Key to the Emergence of Authoritarianism by Gladys I. McCormick.