From Martyrdom to Power: The Partido Accion Nacional in Mexico (review)
It is only natural that Yemile Mizrahi should write one of the first books in English in thirty years on Mexico's longest-lived opposition party. She pioneered efforts among North American Mexicanists to draw attention to the party's increasing role in the early 1990s, and especially to the changing posture of the private sector toward participating in electoral politics. As she argues in the Introduction, she correctly believed that Mexican democracy through such organizations as the National Action Party (PAN), would emerge at the grass roots level, from which they would establish a foothold, and severely test the incumbent Party of the Institutional Revolution's (PRI) monopoly on political participation.