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Democracy promotion / Conference Report

Seminar on democratic transition and consolidation 2001-2002: democracy in Mexico

13/02/2001 By Manuel Alcántara Sáez, Ludolfo Paramio, José Ignacio Wert, Laurence Whitehead, José Woldenberg, Ernesto Zedillo

December 13th, 2001

Main speaker:
Ernesto Zedillo
President of Mexico (1994-2000).

Panelists:
Manuel Alcántara
Professor of Political Science and Director of the Instituto de Iberoamérica y Portugal at the Universidad de Salamanca (Spain)

Laurence Withehead
Official Fellow in Political Science of the Nuffield College, Oxford University

Moderator and seminar co-ordinator:
Ludolfo Paramio
Director of the Comparative Politics Unit, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC (Spain), and member of the Advisory Committee of FRIDE.

 

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Keywords

Democracy Democracy promotion Democratisation Latin America & Caribbean Mexico

Bio author: Manuel Alcántara Sáez

BA in Political Science and Sociology (1976) and PhD in Political Science (1983) by the Universidad Complutense of Madrid. His research is centred on parliamentary elites, political parties and legislative powers in Latin America, as well as on electoral behaviour and public opinion in Castilla y León.

Bio author: Ludolfo Paramio

Graduate in Journalism, he completed his doctorate in Physics at the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid. Director of the Department of Study and Analysis of the Presidency of the Spanish Government. Director of the Comparative Politics Unit, CSIC (Spain). He teaches post-graduate courses on Latin American politics at the University Institute Ortega y Gasset and the International University of Andalusia. He is Director of the social sciences journal Zona Abierta, and member of the Editorial Board of Revista Internacional de Sociología.

Bio author: José Ignacio Wert

José I. Wert is a sociologist and holds a degree in Law from Complutense University. He has been the President of Demoscopia since 1987, and since 1994 has been the President of Sofres A.M.

Bio author: Laurence Whitehead

Official Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College, Oxford University. He currently chairs Research Committee 13 of the International Political Science Association (Comparative Democratisation); and the section on Europe and Latin America of the Latin American Studies Association; is member of the Steering Committee of the Red Eurolatinoamericana de Gobernabilidad para el Desarrollo; and Region Head for Latin America at Oxford Analytica. He also chairs the Area and Development Studies Committee of Oxford University's new Social Science Division.

Bio author: José Woldenberg

Bio author: Ernesto Zedillo

In 1969, he began his education at the Superior School of Economy at the National Polytechnic Institute and, at the same time, he started to work as assistant auditor for the National Bank of Army and Navy, a job which allowed him to count on enough sources to continue his professional studies. After completing his third year of professional education, Ernesto Zedillo decided to take exams on subjects corresponding to the final years to qualify for a university degree, and therefore in June, 1972, he graduated as Economist. He continued his master's degree and PhD in economics at Yale University in the United States of America. He was elected President of the Republic of Mexico 1994-2000