Mexico’s Victory: Vicente Fox and the Rise of the PAN

Issue Date October 2000
Volume 11
Issue 4
Page Numbers 25-32
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Although Fox’s National Action Party (PAN) is frequently portrayed as a reactionary party, it is better understood as a liberal-democratic alternative to the former ruling party’s authoritarianism.

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