ABSTRACT
A review of the most outstanding literature on democratic transitions experienced in Latin American countries reveals that Mexico’s case is still atypical (Alcantara, 2004; Méndez, 2006; O’Donell, Schmitter, & Whitehead, 1994). A lengthy period of electoral reformism, which was controlled and permitted by the authoritarian regime itself, granted an idiosyncratic level of stability to the change process. Nevertheless, as a result the process was slow and convoluted.
