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Why has Mexico's approach to achieving economic liberalization and political democracy shown consistent success over time? Mexico has managed a sustained evolution of its institutions towards economic liberalization and democracy, and the preferences of each of Mexico's presidents since Miguel de la Madrid have determined the pathway taken. Each of the last four presidents set policy agendas based on improving social capital, adopting policies of economic liberalization, eventual commitment to democracy, transparency, and a firm determination to reform and uphold the rule of law. This paper focuses on measuring the changes in Mexico's formal institutions: electoral success by opposition parties, the interaction of mixed party participation in the legislature with the size of the executive's winning coalition, and changes in economic policies that led to greater economic participation. Leadership preferences, which initially chose economic liberalization, produced political liberalization as an outcome of the policies dictated by those preferences. The long-run result is that Mexico's slow and steady approach led it down a path of sustained economic and political liberalization, leading to a sustainable democracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates the linkage between financial liberalization and financial crisis in Mexico and South Korea from a comparative international political economy perspective. Both countries shared various features in the pattern and process of financial liberalization and on the road to financial crisis. Before their financial crises, these two countries experienced international financial capital surges following liberalization in domestic financial markets and their opening to foreign investors, as well as capital account liberalization. These countries also shared similar circumstances: each had presidential elections and entered into the OECD near the years of financial crisis, and both had their policy autonomy strongly affected by foreign pressure favoring financial liberalization. This paper answers explains the political economic background that proceeded financial market opening, and how it encouraged the macroeconomic imbalances and financial crisis in both countries, while providing a research framework to analyze recurrent financial crises in other successful emerging market economies. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study develops a comparative analysis of the changes in domestic politics facilitated by the forces of globalization and the process of liberalization. It focuses on two interesting cases: Mexico and Turkey where two conservative parties came to powe ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]