The AMLO Administration in Mexico: Polity, Politics, and Policy

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A wide variety of scholars from around the globe provide cutting-edge analysis of the Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador (AMLO) administration and the Fourth Transformation, one of the most significant structural changes in a large democracy, not only in Latin America but around the world.

Chapters assess the complexity of this profound transformation in Mexican democracy and society. A political system based on the widespread mediation of a dominant party and a longstanding ruling class, which had represented a decades-old hegemony, had been replaced by entirely new leadership, movement, and ruling class, both ideologically and in governmental practice.

The book investigates a wide variety of topics including the paradoxes in AMLOs strategic ambivalence, leadership styles and communication, democratic institutions and executive power, social policies and implementation, and more. It provides a historical perspective on the development of the Morena movement, highlighting its internal evolution from origins to the present day as it engages in a leadership transition.

Author Bio

Manuel Anselmi is Associate Professor in Political Sociology at the University of Bergamo. He mainly deals with political ideologies and populism. He has been Visiting Professor at the University of Kentucky, FLACSO Ecuador, Universidad de Salamanca (Spain) and visiting academic at the London School of Economics and Loyola University New Orleans.

Jose del Tronco is a researcher in political science at the Faculty of Latin American Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Mexico. He has been Visiting Professor at universities in Spain, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Mexico and Argentina.