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Breaking out is Hard to Do: Exit, Voice, and Loyalty in Mexico's One-Party Hegemonic Regime

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Joy Langston
Joy Langston*
Affiliation:
Division of Political Studies of the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas in Mexico City, specializing in the study of party politics
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Abstract

Theoretically based on Albert O. Hirschman's Exit, Voice, and Loyalty, this study examines three cases of rupture or exit by Mexican presidential contenders, in 1940, 1952, and 1988, and one “noncase,” in 1999, with a view to how dissidents' strategies shape political institutions. Mexico's PRI-dominated political system depended on its leaders' ability to create an equilibrium based on mutual incentives to remain loyal to the regime.

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Research Article
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Latin American Politics and Society , Volume 44 , Issue 3 , Fall 2002 , pp. 61 - 88
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Copyright © University of Miami 2002

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