Introduction -- All politics is local: Mexico's local path to democracy? -- The fall and rise of party militants -- Democratic demographics, does democracy alter politicians' origins? -- Has democracy favored women politicians? -- The rise and the fall of the economic technocrats -- Political institutionalization and public policy, the impact of the aleman generation -- Is one career more democratic than another? -- Violence and democracy, which produces change? -- Governors: national democrats of the future? -- Themes on Mexican leadership and democracy.