The Political Impact of NAFTA on Mexico

Maxwell A. Cameron, University of British Columbia
Carol Wise, University of Southern California

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Abstract

This article revisits debates about the role NAFTA played in hastening Mexico's democratic transition. It finds that neither the advocates nor the critics of NAFTA anticipated the ruling PRI party's loss of control over the presidency in 2000. Although NAFTA may have contributed to hte various political crises that had been erupting since the 1970s, it was just one of serveral forces that shaped the country's democratic transition.