he might have rec- ognized a Salinas presidency in exchange for more favorable treatment of his coali- tion in the Senate and at the state and local levels." The next year, he founded a new party, whose very name-the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD)-under- scored his challenge. "The PRD's call for a revolutionary change in the way Mexico is governed," Reding observes, "has, in ef- fect, transformed every election in which it participates into a referendum on authoritarian...