How Did We Get Here? Mexican Democracy after the 2006 Elections
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6101300 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chappell Lawson (0000-0002-8174-8728, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 45-48 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | PS Political Science & Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1049-0965 • E-ISSN: 1537-5935 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1049096507070084 |
| OpenAlex | W2030117296 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 8 |
On July 2, 2006, Mexican voters elected National Action Party (PAN) candidate Felipe Calderón as the next president of Mexico. Calderón's victory was extremely narrow; he won under 36% of the total vote and less that 0.6% more than his leftist rival, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. This potentially problematic situation was aggravated by López Obrador's decision to challenge Calderón's victory, both in the courts and in the streets. López Obrador's protest campaign culminated on September 16, when tens of thousands of his followers gathered in downtown Mexico City to acclaim him “legitimate president” of Mexico. Meanwhile, in the legislature, leaders of López Obrador's Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) oscillated between hints that they would collaborate with Calderón's administration and signs that they would adopt a posture of untrammeled hostility
Art · Democracy · Economic history · Humanities · Left-wing politics · Legislature · Political science · Politics · Presidential system · Victory · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · History · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Public Administration
Partisan Attachment and Democracy in Mexico
The Utility of Unpacking Survey Bias in Multiparty Elections
Theorizing the devices of sociotechnical governance
Understanding support for tough‐on‐crime policies in Latin America
The 2012 Elections in Mexico
The 2006 Mexican Election and Its Aftermath
Rethinking the Meaning of Citizenship in Post-PRI Mexico
Right on Time
Analyzing partisanship in Central Mexico
El tribunal electoral y los gastos de los partidos políticos en México
Grandes expectativas
The 2006 Mexican Elections
Public evaluations of electoral institutions in Mexico
Partisan losers' effects
Building the Fourth Estate
Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times
Presidentialism, Multipartism, and Democracy
The PRI's 2006 Electoral Debacle
The 2006 Mexican Presidential Election
The Origins and Rationality of the “Legal versus Legitimate” Dichotomy Invoked in Mexico's 2006 Post-Electoral Conflict
Elite Polarization Meets Mass Moderation in Mexico's 2006 Elections
The 2006 Mexican Elections
| Citations per year | 0.74 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2022 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |