Wealth and violence: untangling a complex relationship -- Historical evolution of political and economic monopolies in Mexico, antiquity to the 1980s -- The onset and entrenchment of misplaced monopolies in Mexico's political economy, 1980s to 2006 -- Looking in vain for exits from misplaced...

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. Institutions, Interests, and Ideas in Explaining Regime Change -- 1 Financial Shocks, Economic Crises, and Democracy: Theory and Practice -- PART I. GREAT DEPRESSION, 1929-34 -- 2 Economic Crisis and Democracy during the Great Depression -- 3...