Toward Mexico's Democratization: Parties, Campaigns, Elections and Public Opinion

by Dominguez,Jorge I.

• ISBN13: 9780415921596
• ISBN10: 0415921597
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-02-03
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Recent elections in Mexico have seen dramatic changes in public opinion toward political parties. Focusing on the elections of 1994 and 1997, the book evaluates campaign strategies, voting habits, party loyalty and the decline of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). It begins by situating the transformation of Mexico's parties in historical context, then goes on to consider the role of gender and the resurgence of the Mexican left. The contributors, drawn from the U.S. and Mexico, focus on both the strategies of political parties to woo voters, and how voters actually respond. They also develop several methodological innovations for studying public opinion that can be applied beyond the case of Mexico.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	v
List of Tables	vii
Preface	xi
The Transformation of Mexico's Electoral and Party Systems, 1988-97: An Introduction	1	(23)
Jorge I. Dominguez
Retrospective Voting, Partisanship, and Loyalty in Presidential Elections: 1994	24	(33)
Alejandro Poire
Gender Politics in the Mexican Democratization Process: Electing Women and Legislating Sex Crimes and Affirmative Action, 1988-97	57	(31)
Linda S. Stevenson
The Resurrection of the Mexican Left in the 1997 Elections: Implications for the Party System	88	(26)
Kathleen Bruhn
Campaign Awareness and Voting in the 1997 Mexican Congressional Elections	114	(33)
Alejandro Moreno
Why Cardenas Won: The 1997 Elections in Mexico City	147	(27)
Chappell Lawson
Uncertainty and Electoral Behavior in Mexico in the 1997 Congressional Elections	174	(29)
Alberto Cinta
Is the PRI Fading? Economic Performance, Electoral Accountability, and Voting Behavior in the 1994 and 1997 Elections	203	(34)
Beatriz Magaloni
Index	237