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The 2006 Mexican Elections: Manifestation of a Divided Society?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2007

Joseph L. Klesner
Joseph L. Klesner
Affiliation:
Kenyon College
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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.

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SYMPOSIUM—THE 2006 MEXICAN ELECTION AND ITS AFTERMATH
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , January 2007 , pp. 27 - 32
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© 2007 The American Political Science Association

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