This book offers an analysis of how women's participation is conducted in Mexicos political sphere. Federalization and decentralization processes can have a significant impact on women s participation and discrimination. By questioning the form in which a democratic state is built (that is, the degree of (de)centralization) the book looks to a set of forms and processes affecting women s political life. A decentralized form of state-government implies three levels of government in which women (or any other group of people) can have active participation: central-federal government,...