LEADER 04127nam 22006852 450 001 9910457162803321 005 20151005020621.0 010 $a1-107-14532-5 010 $a1-280-43738-3 010 $a0-511-18427-1 010 $a0-511-16594-3 010 $a0-511-16399-1 010 $a0-511-32696-3 010 $a0-511-49091-7 010 $a0-511-16479-3 035 $a(CKB)1000000000353636 035 $a(EBL)255175 035 $a(OCoLC)171138230 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000131544 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11129528 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000131544 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10018332 035 $a(PQKB)10529407 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511490910 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC255175 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL255175 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10120474 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL43738 035 $a(OCoLC)935230583 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000353636 100 $a20090302d2004|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCourting democracy in Mexico $eparty strategies and electoral institutions /$fTodd A. Eisenstadt$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2004. 215 $a1 online resource (xv, 354 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-03588-0 311 $a0-521-82001-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 307-339) and index. 327 $aElectoral courts and actor compliance : opposition-authoritarian relations and protracted transitions -- Ties that bind and even constrict : why authoritarians tolerate electoral reforms -- Mexico's national electoral justice success : from oxymoron to legal norm in just over a decade -- Mexico's local electoral justice failures : gubernatorial (S) election beyond the shadows of the law -- The gap between law and practice : institutional failure and opposition success in postelectoral conflicts, 1989-2000 -- The National Action Party : dilemmas of rightist oppositions defined by authoritarian collusion -- The party of the democratic revolution : from postelectoral movements to electoral competitors -- Dedazo from the center to finger pointing from the periphery : PRI hard-liners challenge Mexico's electoral institutions -- A quarter century of "Mexicanization" : lessons from a protracted transition. 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aElections$zMexico$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPolitical parties$zMexico$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aDemocratization$zMexico 607 $aElection law$zMexico 615 0$aElections$xHistory 615 0$aPolitical parties$xHistory 615 0$aDemocratization 676 $a324/.0972 700 $aEisenstadt$b Todd A.$01056573 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457162803321 996 $aCourting democracy in Mexico$92491056 997 $aUNINA