Courting Democracy in Mexico: Party Strategies and Electoral Institutions

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Cambridge University Press

Publication date:

22 September 2009

24 November 2003

ISBN:

9780511490910

9780521820011

9780521035880

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511490910

Dimensions:

(228 x 152 mm)

Weight & Pages:

0.653kg, 376 Pages

Dimensions:

(228 x 152 mm)

Weight & Pages:

0.569kg, 376 Pages

Subjects:: Area Studies, Latin American Studies, Politics and International Relations, Latin American Government, Politics and Policy, Comparative Politics

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This book documents Mexico's gradual transition to democracy, written from a perspective which pits opposition activists' post-electoral conflicts against their usage of regime-constructed electoral courts at the centre of the democratization process. It addresses the puzzle of why, during key moments of Mexico's 27-year democratic transition, opposition parties failed to use autonomous electoral courts established to mitigate the country's often violent post-electoral disputes, despite formal guarantees of court independence from the Party of the Institutional Revolution (PRI), Mexico's ruling party for 71 years (preceeding the watershed 2000 presidential elections). Drawing on hundreds of author interviews throughout Mexico over a three-year period and extensive archival research, the author explores choices by the rightist National Action Party (PAN) and the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) between post-electoral conflict resolution via electoral courts and via traditional routes - mobilization and bargaining with the PRI-state.

"...a detailed and thorough account of the gradual transition to democracy in Mexico that focuses on the roles played by the two main opposition parties...provides a wealth of data...makes important contributions to our understanding of the complex and varied conditions under which democracy can be implemented, especially in his discussion of the interplay between formal and informal institutions." M.T. Kenney, Austin Peay State University, Choice

"Eisenstadt's book is a remarkably detailed and comprehensive analysis of Mexico's "protracted" move away from a single-party authoritarian system." Latin American Politics and Society, Emily Edmonds-Poli, University of San Diego

"Meticulously researched and theoretically rich, Eisenstadt's book provides the most extensive account we are likely to see of the interaction between national-level elites--from both regime and opposition--and party activists at the state and local levels as the opposition parties began to seriously contest elections in the late 1980s and 1990s." Political Science Quarterly, Joseph L. Klesner, Kenyon College

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Figures and Tables
pp ix-x

Acknowledgments
pp xi-xvi

Courting Democracy in Mexico
pp xvii-xviii

1 - Electoral Courts and Actor Compliance: Opposition-Authoritarian Relations and Protracted Transitions
pp 1-31

2 - Ties That Bind and Even Constrict: Why Authoritarians Tolerate Electoral Reforms
pp 32-59

3 - Mexico's National Electoral Justice Success: From Oxymoron to Legal Norm in Just over a Decade
pp 60-92

4 - Mexico's Local Electoral Justice Failures: Gubernatorial (S)Election Beyond the Shadows of the Law
pp 93-129

5 - The Gap Between Law and Practice: Institutional Failure and Opposition Success in Postelectoral Conflicts, 1989–2000
pp 130-161

6 - The National Action Party: Dilemmas of Rightist Oppositions Defined by Authoritarian Collusion
pp 162-197

7 - The Party of the Democratic Revolution: From Postelectoral Movements to Electoral Competitors
pp 198-233

8 - Dedazo from the Center to Finger Pointing from the Periphery: PRI Hard-Liners Challenge Mexico's Electoral Institutions
pp 234-269

9 - A Quarter Century of “Mexicanization”: Lessons from a Protracted Transition
pp 270-292

Appendix A - Coding the Postelectoral Conflict Dependent Variable
pp 293-294

Appendix B - Coding of Independent Variables
pp 295-306

Bibliography
pp 307-340

Index
pp 341-354

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