Local Context and Democratization in Mexico
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6230152 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan T Hiskey (0000-0003-4083-7596, University of California, Riverside), Shaun Bowler (0000-0002-0739-6090, University of California, Riverside) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 57-71 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-5853 • E-ISSN: 1540-5907 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.0092-5853.2005.00110.x |
| OpenAlex | W2053098924 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 40 |
| References cited | 52 |
While democratization is often seen as a national-level process, we argue that there is important scope for local effects. Through analysis of Mexican public opinion data collected on the eve of that country's historic 2000 elections, we demonstrate that local context greatly affects evaluations of the legitimacy of the system, and these evaluations, in turn, help to shape the willingness of citizens to engage with the system. Citizens are more willing to participate in politics if they think the process is fair, and direct evidence of the fairness of the system is provided by the local political context. This local connection, then, becomes critical in the process of individuals becoming, in Almond and Verba's classic term, "participatory" citizens (1963
Archaeology · Citizen journalism · Context (archaeology · Democracy · Democratization · Geography · Legitimacy · Political economy · Political science · Political system · Politics · Process (computing · Public opinion · Scope (computer science · Sociology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America · Public Administration · Social and Cultural Dynamics
Life in the Political Machine
Life Satisfaction and Political Participation
Clicktivism vs. commitivism
The EU and Democratic Leverage
Evaluations of the quality of the representative channel and unequal participation
Gubernatorial Politics and the Evolution Toward Democratic Federalism in Mexico
The 2012 Elections in Mexico
Rethinking the Meaning of Citizenship in Post-PRI Mexico
So Close, Yet so Far Away? the Effects of City Size, Density and Growth on Local Civic Participation
Authoritarian Survival and Poverty Traps
Introduction to the Special Issue on Urban Teacher Residencies
When Context Has Content
Migrants’ Remittances and Home Country Elections
Varieties of democracy and life satisfaction
Understanding political participation in West Africa
Subnational Electoral Contexts and Corruption in Mexico
The Effect of Education on Democratic Values Under Different Regime Types in Mexico
Decentralization, legitimacy, and democracy in post-Soviet Central Asia
Cross-Border Spillover
When is “Delivering the Goods” Not Good Enough
Looking Like a Winner
Electoral Democracy and Local Finances
Does Electoral Manipulation Discourage Voter Turnout? Evidence from Mexico
Cooperate But Divided at Heart
Crime and Support for Democracy in Africa and Latin America
Consideration Sets and Political Choices
The Resource Curse Reversed? Remittances and Corruption in Mexico1
Building Support From Below? Subnational Elections, Diffusion Effects, and the Growth of the Opposition in Mexico, 1984-2000
The Local Connection
Individual Conditioning Factors of Political Protest in Latin America
Identifying Irregularities in Mexican Local Elections
Political Inclusion of Latino Immigrants
La incidencia de las pandillas en los barrios salvadoreños y su efecto en la legitimidad política
First survive, then thrive
Unpacking the "Urban" in Urban Teacher Education
Partisan losers' effects
More Than Altruism
Opening the Black Box of Social Capital Formation
The Nearness of Youth
The Participation Paradox of Indigenous Autonomy in Mexico
Subnational Politics and Democratization in Mexico (U.S.-Mexico Contemporary Perspectives Series, 13)
Audacious Reforms
The Social Psychology of Procedural Justice
Critical Citizens
Local Government in Latin America
Why People Obey the Law
Tensions Between the Democratic Ideal and Reality
Urban Poverty, Political Participation, and the State
Modernization and Postmodernization
Developing Democracy
Democracy and Its Alternatives
The Political Culture of Authoritarianism in Mexico
Mexico's Unfinished Transition
Adiós to the PRI? Changing Voter Turnout in Mexico's Political Transition
On the state, democratization and some conceptual problems
Constructing a social safety net in Africa
Pitfalls of power to the people
Citizen Views of Democracy in Latin America
Political Reformism in Mexico
Mexican Politics in Transition
Voice and Equality
The Political Economy of Attitudes toward Polity and Society in Western European Democracies
Counting the Number of Parties
The Difficult Transition from Clientelism to Citizenship
Degrees of Democracy
Political Culture and Regime Type
Meaning and Measurement in Cross-National Research on Satisfaction with Democracy
Looking Out My Back Door
The sources of tactical voting in British parliamentary elections, 1983?1987
How does government performance influence political support
Latin America's Emerging Local Politics
An Electoral Route to Democracy? Mexico's Transition in Comparative Perspective
Rational Choice and Turnout
Accepting the Election Outcome
A Re-assessment of the Concept of Political Support
The End of Mexico's One-Party Regime
Mexicans react to electoral fraud and political corruption
Political Institutions and Satisfaction with Democracy
Toward Mexico's Democratization
Audacious Reforms
From Bullets to Ballots
Politics after Neoliberalism
El rito electoral en Jalisco (1940-1992)
| Unique citing works | 40 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,11 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 40 |