Democratization and Authoritarian Party Survival - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democratization and Authoritarian Party Survival write by Joy K. Langston. This book was released on 2017-04-03. Democratization and Authoritarian Party Survival available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 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.
Democratization and Authoritarian Party Survival
Democratization and Authoritarian Party Survival - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democratization and Authoritarian Party Survival write by Joy Kathryn Langston. This book was released on 2017. Democratization and Authoritarian Party Survival available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mexico's Party of the Institutional Revolution (PRI) held executive power continuously from 1929 to 2000, when its candidate suffered a shocking defeat in the presidential elections. This study, which covers the years 1980-2012, uses an institutional focus to understand why the PRI survived its defeat and loss of the resources of the executive bureaucracy to return victoriously after two six-year terms out of office. This work offers a model of the difficulties authoritarian parties must face after they are ousted from the executive through fair and free elections: the danger of dramatic fractures that could destroy the party and the possibility of mass voter rejection.
Life after Dictatorship
Life after Dictatorship - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Life after Dictatorship write by James Loxton. This book was released on 2018-09-13. Life after Dictatorship available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Life after Dictatorship launches a new research agenda on authoritarian successor parties worldwide. Authoritarian successor parties are parties that emerge from authoritarian regimes, but that operate after a transition to democracy. They are one of the most common but overlooked features of the global democratic landscape. They are major actors in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America, and they have been voted back into office in over one-half of all third-wave democracies. This book presents a new set of terms, definitions, and research questions designed to travel across regions, and presents new data on these parties' prevalence and frequent return to power. With chapters from leading Africanists, Asianists, Europeanists, and Latin Americanists, it asks: why are authoritarian successor parties so common? Why are some more successful than others? And in what ways can they harm - or help - democracy?
Voting for Autocracy
Voting for Autocracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Voting for Autocracy write by Beatriz Magaloni. This book was released on 2008-08-11. Voting for Autocracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides a theory of the logic of survival of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), one of the most resilient autocratic regimes in the twentieth century. An autocratic regime hid behind the facade of elections that were held with clockwise precision. Although their outcome was totally predictable, elections were not hollow rituals. The PRI made millions of ordinary citizens vest their interests in the survival of the autocratic regime. Voters could not simply throw the "rascals out of office" because their choices were constrained by a series of strategic dilemmas that compelled them to support the autocrats. The book also explores the factors that led to the demise of the PRI. The theory sheds light on the logic of "electoral autocracies," among the most common type of autocracy today, and the factors that lead to the transformation of autocratic elections into democratic ones. This book is the only systematic treatment in the literature today dealing with this form of autocracy.
Party Systems in Latin America
Party Systems in Latin America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Party Systems in Latin America write by Scott Mainwaring. This book was released on 2018-02-08. Party Systems in Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book generates a wealth of new empirical information about Latin American party systems and contributes richly to major theoretical debates about party systems and democracy.
