{"product_id":"courting-democracy-in-mexico-party-strategies-and-electoral-institutions-hardback-9780521820011","title":"Courting Democracy in Mexico; Party Strategies and Electoral Institutions (Hardback) 9780521820011","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCourting Democracy in Mexico\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eParty Strategies and Electoral Institutions\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book is a most comprehensive explanation of Mexico's gradual transition to democracy.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTodd A. Eisenstadt (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521820011, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 24 November 2003\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e376 pages, 14 tables\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 16 x 3 cm, 0.653 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Meticulously researched and theoretically rich, Eisenstadt's book provides the most extensive account we are likely to see of the interaction between national-level elites--from both regime and opposition--and party activists at the state and local levels as the opposition parties began to seriously contest elections in the late 1980s and 1990s.\"   Political Science Quarterly, Joseph L. Klesner, Kenyon College\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFigures and tables\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e 1. Electoral courts and actor compliance: opposition-authoritarian relations and protracted transitions\u003cbr\u003e 2. Ties that bind and even constrict: why authoritarians tolerate electoral reforms\u003cbr\u003e 3. Mexico's national electoral justice success: from oxymoron to legal norm in just over a decade\u003cbr\u003e 4. Mexico's local electoral justice failures: gubernatorial (s)election beyond the shadows of the law\u003cbr\u003e 5. The gap between law and practice: institutional failure and opposition success in postelectoral conflicts, 1989–2000\u003cbr\u003e 6. The National Action Party: dilemmas of rightist oppositions defined by authoritarian collusion\u003cbr\u003e 7. The party of the democratic revolution: from postelectoral movements to electoral competitors\u003cbr\u003e 8. Dedazo from the center to finger pointing from the periphery: PRI hard-liners challenge Mexico's electoral institutions\u003cbr\u003e 9. A quarter century of 'Mexicanization': lessons from a protracted transition\u003cbr\u003e Appendices\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Political structure \u0026amp; processes [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Political structure \u0026amp; processes\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Political%20structure%20\u0026amp;%20processes%20%5BJPH%5D%22\"\u003eJPH\u003c\/a\u003e], Politics \u0026amp; government [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Politics \u0026amp; government\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Politics%20\u0026amp;%20government%20%5BJP%5D%22\"\u003eJP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265161974040,"sku":"9780521820011","price":81.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521820011i.jpg?v=1692020131","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/courting-democracy-in-mexico-party-strategies-and-electoral-institutions-hardback-9780521820011","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}