Courting democracy in Mexico : party strategies and electoral institutions / / Todd A. Eisenstadt.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Eisenstadt, Todd A.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xv, 354 p. :; map.

Table of 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.