The Criminal Subversion of Mexican Democracy

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6286469
AutoresAndreas Schedler (0000-0003-2821-613X, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, autor correspondente)
Ano2014
Volume25
Fascículo1
Páginas5-18
Data de publicação2014-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of democracy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1045-5736 • E-ISSN: 1086-3214
EditoraProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/jod.2014.0016
OpenAlexW2091466041
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas38
Referências citadas5

Threats to the integrity of electoral democracy are manifold. The comparative literature has focused on "vertical" threats: the manipulation of elections by central governments. This article, by contrast, draws attention to "horizontal" threats: the societal subversion of democratic elections by criminal violence. It analyzes the so-called drug war in Mexico to illustrate the chilling effects private organized violence has on electoral democracy. After tracing the origins of Mexico's new internal war, the article documents the damages it bears on the democratic integrity of elections as well as on surrounding rights and liberties

Criminology · Damages · Democracy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Subversion · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses