The 2006 Mexican Elections: Manifestation of a Divided Society?

When the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) lost the presidency in 2000, the central cleavage that defined Mexican politics in the last 15 years of the twentieth century—pro-regime vs. anti-regime—could no longer guide voters on Election Day. With no PRI to vote out of office (or to defend), Me...

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Published in:PS, political science & politics political science & politics, 2007-01, Vol.40 (1), p.27-32
Main Author: Klesner, Joseph L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age groups
Candidates
Cohort studies
Conferences
Economic models
Economic Policy
Elections
Females
International Relations
Latin American politics
Males
Mexicans
Mexico
Political campaigns
Political Candidates
Political parties
Political partisanship
Presidential elections
Social Policy
Socioeconomic Status
Socioeconomics
SYMPOSIUM—THE 2006 MEXICAN ELECTION AND ITS AFTERMATH
United States of America
Voting
Voting Behavior
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Summary:When the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) lost the presidency in 2000, the central cleavage that defined Mexican politics in the last 15 years of the twentieth century—pro-regime vs. anti-regime—could no longer guide voters on Election Day. With no PRI to vote out of office (or to defend), Mexicans were impelled to turn their political attention to non-regime issues, such as economic policy, social policy, relations with the United States, and crime control. As Kathleen Bruhn and Kenneth Greene make clear in their contribution to this symposium, Mexican political elites are seriously divided on these issues, while the views of their bases are not far apart.
ISSN:1049-0965
1537-5935
DOI:10.1017/S1049096507070059