COURTING DEMOCRACY IN MEXICO by Todd A. Eisenstadt ( 9780521820011 )

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COURTING DEMOCRACY IN MEXICO
PARTY STRATEGIES AND ELECTORAL INSTITUTIONS

By:

Todd A. Eisenstadt

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0521820014

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

24 November, 2003

Pages:

376

Description:

This book is a most comprehensive explanation of Mexico's gradual transition to democracy.

Synopsis:

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.

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Cambridge University Press

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