1. Introduction. Not Authoritarian, but Not Yet Democratic: the Mexican authoritarian legacies in media and politics. Volume editors -- Part 1. Media Systems, Regulation and Historical Antecedents: Explaining Continuities -- 2. Media Systems in Unconsolidated Democracies: the case of Mexico. Manuel Alejandro Guerrero -- 3. Challenges in Protecting Freedom of Expression in Mexico: 20 years of progress with poor results. Salvador de Leon Vazquez. -- 4. The Salinas Years, 1988-1994: Watershed in the opening of Mexico's print media?. Andrew Paxman -- Part 2. The Burden of Being a Journalist in Mexico: Risk, Security and Censorship -- 5. Surviving Mexico's Peripheries: limits and constraints among journalists in the Twenty-First Century. Celeste Gonzalez de Bustamente & Jeannine Relly -- 6. Still Dreaming of Democracy: How professional norms from the political opening shape risk and resilience today. Sallie Hughes -- 7. Defective Democracy, Erosion of Freedom of Press, and the Perils of Being a Journalist in Mexico Two Decades After the Democratic Transition. Ruben Arnoldo Gonzalez, Osiris S. Gonzales-Galvan -- 8. AMLO and Freedom of the Press: The struggle between conflicting visions of communicative strategies in Mexico. Stuart Davis & Melissa Santillana -- Part 3. Post-Authoritarian Media Performance: Actors and Representations in Dispute -- 9. Mediatization in post-authoritarian democracies: 20 years of media logic in Mexican press. Martin Echeverria -- 10. Press and Civil Society: Alliance and mistrust in Mexican transition to democracy. Grisel Salazar -- 11. Television Political Satire and the Mexican Democratic Transition. Frida V. Rodelo.

This volume presents an analytical and empirical overview of the array of issues that the Mexican media faces in the post-authoritarian age, which jointly explains how a partially accomplished democracy, its authoritarian inertias, and its unintended consequences hinder the democratic performance of the media. This is analyzed from three points of view: the stalemate Mexican media system and ineffective regulations, the conditions of risk and insecurity of the journalists on the field, and the limits of freedom of expression, political substance, and inclusiveness of media content. A binational effort, with research from US and Mexican authors, a wide analytic perspective is provided on the macro, meso, and micro levels, allowing for a deep conceptual richness and a comprehensive understanding of the Mexican case. With leading researchers in the field, the volume revolves around the problems of the media in post-authoritarian democracies. By answering the questions of howand why the Mexican media has not fully democratized, the works encompassed here can resonate with and are relevant to other post-authoritarian countries and academic disciplines. Martin Echeverria is Full-Professor at the Centre for Studies in Political Communication, Institute of Government Sciences and Strategic Development, Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Mexico. Ruben Arnoldo Gonzalez is Full-Professor at the Centre for Studies in Political Communication, Institute of Government Sciences and Strategic Development, Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Mexico.