ABSTRACT
Mexico and India share with Russia the experience of a modernizing revolution, followed by a regime of modernizers organized in single dominant party and committed to rapid industrialization through central planning and the nationalization of at least some key industries. The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in Mexico and the Congress Party in India, representing a variety of interests that had participated in the revolution, were never as homogeneous as tightly organized as the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In Mexico, the unions constituting the labor sector of the PRI obtained higher wages for their members than were paid in nonunion shops. Eventually rival political parties succeeded in destroying the one-party monopoly in Mexico and India and reduced the former dominant party to minority status in their national legislatures. In Mexico and in India, much more than in Russia, a system of checks and balances functions among major groups in the society that, willy-nilly, recognize each others' right to exist.
