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Courting democracy in Mexico [electronic resource] : party strategies and electoral institutions / Todd A. Eisenstadt.

By: Eisenstadt, Todd A.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004Description: xv, 354 p. : map.Subject(s): Elections -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century | Political parties -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century | Democratization -- Mexico | Election law -- MexicoGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 324/.0972 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
1. Electoral Courts and Actor Compliance: Opposition-Authoritarian Relations and Protracted Transitions -- 2. Ties That Bind and Even Constrict: Why Authoritarians Tolerate Electoral Reforms -- 3. Mexico's National Electoral Justice Success: From Oxymoron to Legal Norm in Just over a Decade -- 4. Mexico's Local Electoral Justice Failures: Gubernatorial (S)Election Beyond the Shadows of the Law -- 5. The Gap Between Law and Practice: Institutional Failure and Opposition Success in Postelectoral Conflicts, 1989-2000 -- 6. The National Action Party: Dilemmas of Rightist Oppositions Defined by Authoritarian Collusion -- 7. The Party of the Democratic Revolution: From Postelectoral Movements to Electoral Competitors -- 8. Dedazo from the Center to Finger Pointing from the Periphery: PRI Hard-Liners Challenge Mexico's Electoral Institutions -- 9. A Quarter Century of "Mexicanization": Lessons from a Protracted Transition -- App. A. Coding the Postelectoral Conflict Dependent Variable -- App. B. Coding of Independent Variables.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-339) and index.

1. Electoral Courts and Actor Compliance: Opposition-Authoritarian Relations and Protracted Transitions -- 2. Ties That Bind and Even Constrict: Why Authoritarians Tolerate Electoral Reforms -- 3. Mexico's National Electoral Justice Success: From Oxymoron to Legal Norm in Just over a Decade -- 4. Mexico's Local Electoral Justice Failures: Gubernatorial (S)Election Beyond the Shadows of the Law -- 5. The Gap Between Law and Practice: Institutional Failure and Opposition Success in Postelectoral Conflicts, 1989-2000 -- 6. The National Action Party: Dilemmas of Rightist Oppositions Defined by Authoritarian Collusion -- 7. The Party of the Democratic Revolution: From Postelectoral Movements to Electoral Competitors -- 8. Dedazo from the Center to Finger Pointing from the Periphery: PRI Hard-Liners Challenge Mexico's Electoral Institutions -- 9. A Quarter Century of "Mexicanization": Lessons from a Protracted Transition -- App. A. Coding the Postelectoral Conflict Dependent Variable -- App. B. Coding of Independent Variables.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.