Democratization and Authoritarian Party Survival - Langston

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Résumé :
When Mexico's authoritarian Party of the Institutional Revolution (PRI) was defeated in the 2000 presidential election after seventy-one years of uninterrupted rule, many analysts believed the party would inevitably splinter and collapse. An authoritarian party without control over government resources and without a strong national executive creates both opportunity and incentive for ambitious politicians to leave the party and join a separate faction. To the surprise of many, however, the PRI managed to deviate from this pattern, and returned triumphantly to the presidency in 2012.

Democratization and Authoritarian Party Survival: Mexico's Evolving PRI argues that those authoritarian parties that survive the transition to democratic elections do so because they are able to adjust to electoral challenges and the rigors of the ballot box more quickly and effectively than their internal party rivals. Such as in the case of the PRI, these electorally-oriented vote winners find ways to cooperate and avoid the dangers of internal ruptures. Those authoritarian parties in which vote-winning factions are unable to defeat their intra-party rivals, or those that divide and fragment, are less likely to survive the transition to democratic voting.

Despite the interest in Mexico's former hegemonic party and its return to power, no full-length monograph has been dedicated to studying its transformation. This book takes a long lens view of authoritarian party survival and zeros in on the transformation of Mexico's PRI, making a substantive and novel contribution to the wider literature on party organizational change, authoritarian party survival, and democratization....

Biographie:
Joy K. Langston is Professor of Political Science, Centro de Investigaci?n y Docencia Econ?micas (CIDE).

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Sommaire:

• Note on interview sources


• Glossary


• Chapter 1. The Dinosaur that Did Not Die: Mexico's PRI from 1982 to 2012


• Chapter 2. Theorizing Authoritarian Party Survival


• Chapter 3. The PRI under Hegemony


• Chapter 4. The Transition to Democracy and the Struggles to Take Over the Party


• Chapter 5. The Challenges of (Authoritarian) Party Survival after Democratization


• Chapter 6. Voting Behavior in Mexico


• Chapter 7. Changes to Candidate Selection and Political Recruitment


• Chapter 8. Changing Federal Deputy Campaigns


• Chapter 9. Authority and Delegation in the Chamber of Deputies


• Chapter 10. Comparing the PRI Experience in Kenya and Taiwan


• References


• List of Interview Subjects