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Shaping Mexico's Electoral Arena: The Construction of Partisan Cleavages in the 1988 and 1991 National Elections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Jorge I. Domínguez  and
James A. McCann
Jorge I. Domínguez
Affiliation:
Harvard University
James A. McCann
Affiliation:
Purdue University
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Abstract

In the 1988 and 1991 national elections, Mexican voters asked themselves above all whether they continued to support the long-ruling official party. Voter behavior was not well explained by attachments to social cleavages, attitudes on policy issues, or general assessments about the present circumstances and the prospects for the nation's economy or personal finances. In both elections, moreover, the parties of the Left failed to mobilize voters that had chosen to abstain in past elections. Once voters were ready to oppose the ruling party, however, differences by issue, prospective economic assessments, and social cleavages shaped their choice between the opposition parties.

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American Political Science Review , Volume 89 , Issue 1 , March 1995 , pp. 34 - 48
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1995

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