Contemporary Mexican Politics

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Contemporary Mexican Politics starts from the reconstruction of the country, that is, the period after post-revolutionary Mexico. This era marked a pattern of before and after the new political regime, that is why this course aims to identify how Mexican politics currently work. The way in which you will do it will be based on the study of Political Science and Democracy, so that you will be able to investigate the functioning of the different institutions of the current political system. At the end of the course the student will be able to: Identify the current functioning of Mexican politics by reviewing different theoretical concepts focused on the reality of institutions, so that the student can recognize the performance of the main institutions of the Mexican political system, know the importance of political science and democracy in today's politics, recognize the institutional arrangement and the way in which it operates in the Mexican political system, and check whether the Mexican political system has generated good governance and well-being in the population.