Presidential Elections in Mexico

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: A Longue Durée View of the Process of Democratization in Mexico

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3. The Democratization Process in Mexico and Presidential Elections. Toward a Typology of Presidential Elections

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4. Maintaining Elections: 1970, 1976 and 1982

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5. Converting Elections: 1988, 1994, and 2006

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6. The Realigning Elections: 2000 and 2012

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7. Conclusions: Presidential Elections and the New Structure of Power in Mexico

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8. Back Matter

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This book analyzes the transformation of the Mexican political system during the last four decades, focusing on its presidential elections. As the country has shifted away from an authoritarian political system, ruled by a hegemonic party, it has become a more moderate, pluralistic society, marked by electoral competition between contestant parties.  Using a mixed methodology, including historical and statistical analysis, the author argues that the fight for clean and fair elections in Mexico has a long history of contestation and conflict, entailing at once movements towards democracy yet also processes of de-democratization.”

• Political behavior
• PAN
• PRD
• PRI
• National Action Party
• Institutional Revolutionary Party
• Party of the Democratic Revolution
• Democratization
• Latin American politics
• Mexican politics

“After the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) México gave form to one of the most successful authoritarian systems of the 20th century. The strong roots of its undemocratic institutions and political culture have made extremely difficult and prolonged its democratic transition. By carefully examining the way in which presidential elections without meaning evolved into competitive although unfair ones, professor Reynaldo Ortega provides the reader with a good panorama of the political transformation of México in the last half a century and highlights the nature of the bumpy road still has to travel a hybrid political system before becoming a bona fide electoral democracy.” (Lorenzo Meyer, Professor Emeritus, El Colegio de México)    

• Center for International Studies, College of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico

  Reynaldo Yunuen Ortega Ortiz

Reynaldo Yunuen Ortega Ortiz is Professor of Political Science at the Center for International Studies at the College of Mexico. He is a Member of the National System of Researchers in Mexico and Chief Editor of the journal Foro Internacional. In 2012 he was awarded the National Prize of Social Research and Public Opinion.

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