Which of the following parties played a key role in demanding electoral reforms and in the formation of Federal Electoral Institute in the 1990s?
A. Mexican Community Party
B. National Action Party
C. Party of Democratic Revolution
D. National Revolutionary Party
E. Institutional Revolutionary Party
Q. 2Which of the following is true regarding the effect of democratization on interest groups in Mexico?
A. Democracy has increased the influence of labor on policy making decisions of the
government.
B. Democracy has made it mandatory for businesses to obtain membership in business
interest groups.
C. Democracy has prevented the Mexican emigrants from organizing and participating
in politics.
D. Democracy has reduced the political influence of business compared to the hold
they had during the centralized regime.
E. Democracy has provided more options for workers to organize and press their
demands on the government.
Q. 3The Cold War ended in 1979.
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Q. 4Which of the following is true of the PRI regime in Mexico between 1929 and 2000?
A. PRI was fairly flat and non-hierarchical by nature because it had distributed
authority within the party to PRI state governors.
B. PRI failed to incorporate mass groups such as labor and peasants in their party
throughout their tenure.
C. The PRI regime was characterized by substantial electoral participation but no
effective interparty contestation.
D. In the PRI system, the president had no authority over the selection of members to
the legislature.
E. PRI faced strong opposition from the PAN and the Mexican Communist Party, which
often toppled the PRI from power between 1929 and 2000.
Q. 5The Zapatista Army of National Liberation was organized to ________.
A. revolt against the dictatorship rule of president Daz
B. obtain a greater say in the political process by industrialists and merchants
C. limit the role of the Catholic Church in education
D. fight for the rights of indigenous communities
E. weaken the salience of ethnicity in politics
Q. 6Which of the following statements is true with regard to project mestizaje?
A. It was started by non-governmental cultural organizations to preserve the integral
elements of Mexican culture and heritage.
B. It was created to propagate the superiority of the criollos over the mestizos.
C. It was aimed at weakening the salience of ethnicity in politics in Mexico.
D. It was devised with the aim of underplaying the indigenous roots of the Mexican
population.
E. It was withdrawn following tremendous opposition from scholars, students, and the
general population of Mexico.
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