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September
30, 1999
Media
Contact: Graciela Platero,
(858) 534-4503, gplatero@ucsd.edu
Dolores Davies, (858) 534 5994, ddavies@ucsd.edu
UCSD’S
CENTER FOR U.S.-MEXICAN STUDIES TO CELEBRATE 20TH ANNIVERSARY WITH
CONFERENCE ON CHANGING MEXICAN POLITICS
The Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the
University of California, San Diego will celebrate its 20th
anniversary Oct. 6-9 with a special reception, an anniversary dinner,
and a two-day conference on changing Mexican politics. All events will
be held in the Institute of the Americas Complex on the UCSD campus
and are open to the public.
The reception will be held Oct. 6, following the
Center’s first fall quarter research seminar to be given by
sociologist Julio Labastida of the Instituto de Investigaciones
Sociales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He will speak on Legitimidad
y Cambio de Régimen Político en México. The seminar begins at 3
p.m. and will be conducted in Spanish. The special reception will
follow at 5 p.m.
The Center will also host a two-day conference, Dilemmas
of Change in Mexican Politics Oct. 8 and 9. Center director Kevin
J. Middlebrook will offer opening remarks and welcome
participants and guests at 8:30 a.m. Oct. 8. Conference
sessions will include such topics as parties, elections and the
Mexican voter; the old regime; a new political order; Mexico’s
political future, and roundtables on the presidential succession and
on media and politics. (See attached agenda.)
Anniversary events will conclude with a dinner
and program Oct. 9. Tickets for the dinner and additional information
may be obtained by contacting the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies,
(858) 534-4503.
UCSD’s Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies,
founded in 1979, is committed to research and training in social
sciences and history, as well as in migration, urban and regional
planning, and environmental studies. It has earned international
recognition as the most important U.S.
institution for advanced research, postgraduate
training, and public education on Mexico and U.S.-Mexican relations.
This year the Center hosted Mexico’s Foreign
Minister Rosario Green, Guanajuato’s Governor Vicente Fox, and
Mexico City’s Mayor Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas. It continually
provides a nonpartisan forum for the discussion of key policy issues
affecting the United States and Mexico.
DILEMMAS
OF CHANGE IN MEXICAN POLITICS
October
8-9, 1999
October 8
8:30am
Welcome
And Opening Remarks
Kevin J. Middlebrook,
Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies
8:45am
Session
I: Parties, Elections, and the Mexican Voter
Moderator:
Paul
W. Drake,
University of California, San Diego
Papers:
José Antonio Crespo
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas), “The Emergence of
a Competitive Party System”
Silvia Gómez Tagle (El Colegio de México), “Public Institutions
and Electoral Transparency”
Jorge Buendía (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas),
“The Changing Mexican Voter”
Discussant:
Federico Estévez,
Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
10:45am
Break
11:00am
Session
II: Political Actors: Pillars of the Old Regime
Moderator:
Peter
H. Smith,
University of California, San Diego
Papers:
Graciela Bensusán (Universidad
Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco), “A New Scenario for Mexican
Unions: Changes in the Structure of Economic and Political
Opportunities”
Horacio Mackinlay (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa),
“Peasant Organizations and Rural Producers”
Matilde Luna (Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México), “Business and Politics”
Roderic Camp (Claremont McKenna College), “Mexico’s Armed
Forces: Marching to a Democratic Tune?”
Discussant:
Kathleen Bruhn,
University of California, Santa Barbara
1:15pm
Luncheon
2:15pm
Session
III: Political Actors: Elements of a New Political Order
Moderator:
María
Amparo Casar,
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas
Papers:
Alberto Olvera (Universidad
Veracruzana), “Civil Society”
Chappell Lawson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), “The Mass
Media”
Jonathan Fox (University of California, Santa Cruz), “Binational
Civil Society Coalition”
Discussant:
Denise Dresser,
Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and Pacific Council on
International Policy
4:15pm
Break
4:30pm
Session
IV: Roundtable on the Presidential Succession
Moderator:
Kevin J. Middlebrook,
Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies
Julio Labastida Martín del Campo, Instituto de Investigaciones
Sociales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Laurence Whitehead, Nuffield College, Oxford
October 9
9:00am
Session
V: Political Representation and Governance (Part 1)
Moderator:
Laurence
Whitehead,
Nuffield College, Oxford
Papers:
Alberto Díaz-Cayeros
(Centro de Investigación para el Desarrollo, A.C.), “The New
Federalism in Theory and Practice”
Luis Hernández (La Jornada),
“The Rights and Representation of Indigenous Peoples”
Luin Goldring (York University), “The Mexican State and Mexicanos
in the United States: Negotiating Membership, Rights, and
Representation”
Discussant:
Jorge I. Domínguez,
Harvard University
11:00am
Break
11:15ampm
Session
VI: Political Representation and Governance (Part 2)
Moderator:
Wayne
A. Cornelius,
Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies
Papers:
Jeffrey Weldon (Instituto
Tecnológico Autónomo de México), “Executive-Legislative
Relations”
Beatriz Magaloni (Stanford University), “Judicial Reform, Public
Security, and the Rule of Law”
Discussant:
Luis Carlos Ugalde,
Embajada de México, Washington, D.C.
1:00pm
Luncheon
2:00pm
Session
VII: Roundtable on Media and Politics
Moderator:
Kevin J. Middlebrook,
Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies
Luis Hernández Navarro, La
Jornada
Roberto Zamarripa, Reforma
Roxanna De Carlo,
TV Azteca-Tijuana
3:30pm
Break
3:45pm
Session
VIII: Mexico's Political Future
Moderator:
Jorge
I. Domínguez,
Harvard University
Papers:
Wayne A. Cornelius
(University of California, San Diego), “Democratic Politics and
Mexican Political Culture”
Rafael Fernández de Castro (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México),
“Mexican Politics and the External Dimension”
Discussants:
Soledad Loaeza, El
Colegio de México
Kevin J. Middlebrook, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies |
