AP Comparative

AP Comparative - Mexico

293072305	PRI	The national government of Mexico coalesced into one single governing party; Party of the Institutionalized Revolution; dominant political party in Mexico; incorporated labor, peasant, military, and middle-class sectors; controlled other political organizations in Mexico.
293072306	PRD	Partido de la Revolucion Democratica/ Party of the Democratic Revolution. The center-left party that emerged after the 1988 elections from splits within the PRI.
293072307	PAN	The party's political platform is generally considered Centre-Right in the Mexican political spectrum. Since 2000, the President of Mexico has been a member of this party; both houses have party pluralities, but the party does not have a majority in either house of the Congress.
293072308	Multiparty System	A system in which three or more political parties have the capacity to gain control of government separately or in coalition.
293072309	Federal System	a government that divides the powers of government between the national government and state or provincial governments
293072310	Sexenio	the six-year term that a Mexican president serves in office
293072311	Single Member Districts	electoral district from which one person is chosen by the voters for each elected office
293072312	Proportional Representation	An election system in which each party running receives the proportion of legislative seats corresponding to its proportion of the vote.
293072313	Chamber of Deputies	The lower house of Mexico's legislature
293072314	CFE	Former (and corrupt) Mexican electoral commission
293072315	Camarillas	Political cliques that serve as networks of personal loyalty at the country's most elite levels.
293072316	Caudillos	independent leaders who dominated local areas by force in defiance of national policies; sometimes seized national governments to impose their concept of rule; typical throughout newly independent countries of latin america.
293072317	Chiapas Rebellion	1994 Zapatista uprising, in the southern most state of Mexico, in response to the signing of NAFTA, intended to remind people of appalling conditions that still exist in Mexico
293072318	Corporatism	a political system in which interest groups become an institutionalized part of the state or dominant political party
293072319	PEMEX	Mexican Petroleum; a government agency that runs the oil industry in Mexico
293072320	NAFTA	North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is a pact that unites Canada, Mexico, and the United States in one of the world's largest free-trade zones.
293072321	WTO	The initials of the international body established in 1995 to foster and bring order to international trade.
293072322	Pendulum Theory	the idea that a developing nation goes through different political and ideological periods, swinging back and forth according to the ideas of the nation's leader at a certain time.
293072323	Porfiriato	the long period of rule by Mexico's Porfirio Diaz, 1876-1911, often cited as a prime example of neocolonialism in Latin America. Diaz imposed strict political control, encouraged European and US investment, and gave special influence to a group of positivist thinkers called Cientificos.
293072324	Mestizo	a person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry)
293072325	Vicenete Fox	recent president of mexico who was also president of coca cola
293072326	Import Substitution	a government policy that uses trade restrictions and subsidies to encourage domestic production of manufactured goods