This figure is an estimate of a country's total economic output divided by its total population. Mexico's is $8,900.
What is Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
100
NAFTA
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement
100
A non-renewable six year term
What is a sexenio
100
More than 75% of Mexico's population is in cities, home to many PAN and PRD voters, as opposed to the remaining voters living in less populated areas, where there is much PRI support.
What is Urban vs. Rural
100
Most Mexican citizens belong to this religion
What is Catholicism
200
This measure takes into account the cost of living by comparing the domestic prices of goods to that other countries. Mexico's is $14,200 per year.
What is Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)
200
National Action Party
What is PAN
200
Educated, business oriented leaders in Mexicos
What are technicos
200
There is much economic equality in Mexico, with the poorest 10% earning 1.6% of the nation's income, and the richest 10% earning 35.6%.
What is social class
200
A structure of interest groups advocated by the PRI - where the party has the ultimate authority, but other voices are heard under the party's broad umbrella.
What is corporatist.
300
A calculation that takes into account life expectancy at birth, literacy/average years of schooling, and income. Mexico's is 0.770
What is Human Development Index (HDI)
300
WTO
What is the World Trade Organization
300
The old style caciques who headed camarillos
What are politicos
300
The major groups in Mexico are mestizo (Euro-Amerindian) and Amerindian.
What is ethnicity
300
A patron-client system that began in warlordism and loyalty in Mexico in the 1800s
What are caudillos
400
This tells how reliant a nation's economy is on a different nation's economy. Mexico has much of this on the United States. Hint: There is no way of officially calculating this.
What is economic dependency
400
PRD
What is the Democratic Revolutionary Party
400
Foreign owned assembly plants in tax free zones
What are maquiladoras
400
The northern part of Mexico is industrial, and home to many middle class citizens who support the liberalization of the economy. The south is more subtropical and rural, home to less influential in Mexico's politics.
What is geographic
400
One part of Mexico's legislature. It is made up of 500 members.
What is the Chamber of Deputies
500
This tells how much disparity there is between a country's highest earners and lowest earners.
What is economic equality
500
EZLN
What is the Zapatista National Liberation Front
500
Collective land grants
What are ejidos
500
Voters who had the most schooling are more likely to vote for PAN, and those who had the least schooling are more likely to vote for PRI.
What is education
500
A hierarchal network through which offices and other benefits were exchanged in Mexico.