2001
DOI: 10.1525/msem.2001.17.1.17
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Adiós to the PRI? Changing Voter Turnout in Mexico's Political Transition

Abstract: During the last decade, patterns of voter turnout in Mexico have changed dramatically. Turnout patterns now resemble those of established democracies, where affluent and politically engaged citizens are more likely to participate than poorer, less informed, and rural voters who make up the Institutional Revolutionary Party's traditional base. Because those Mexicans most likely to vote are also those most likely to support the opposition, especially the National Action Party, changing partisan biases in elector… Show more

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“…PRI's base of electoral support is in rural areas and poor states, populated with older voters who remember the years of the "Mexican miracle," with illiterates and peasants who are easily coerced, and with housewives who have traditionally feared change (Klesner 1993). PRI's base of electoral support is in rural areas and poor states, populated with older voters who remember the years of the "Mexican miracle," with illiterates and peasants who are easily coerced, and with housewives who have traditionally feared change (Klesner 1993).…”
Section: Explaining the Fox Victory Who Voted For Fox?mentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…PRI's base of electoral support is in rural areas and poor states, populated with older voters who remember the years of the "Mexican miracle," with illiterates and peasants who are easily coerced, and with housewives who have traditionally feared change (Klesner 1993). PRI's base of electoral support is in rural areas and poor states, populated with older voters who remember the years of the "Mexican miracle," with illiterates and peasants who are easily coerced, and with housewives who have traditionally feared change (Klesner 1993).…”
Section: Explaining the Fox Victory Who Voted For Fox?mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In 1997, though, PRI's most threaten-ing rival was not Fox's PAN but the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, who won the Mexico City mayor's race that year (Klesner 1997) and who ran as PRD's presidential candidate in 2000, his third outing as the left's standard bearer. Once able to expect to gain 70% of the votes, PRI garnered about half of the ballots in the 1988 and 1994 presidential elections, and took less than 40% of votes in the 1997 midterm congressional elections.…”
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“…For example, a resource model predicts that participation is increasing with income (Brady, Verba, and Schlozman 1995). In Mexico, for decades high participation was a feature of poor and rural regions, but by Progresa's time, turnout patterns resembled more closely those of established democracies with more affluent people participating more in elections (Klesner and Lawson 2001). Thus, a resource model is compatible with the turnout result.…”
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“…En un país cada vez más urbanizado, ello contribuyó de forma decisiva a la transición política y reflejó un cambio fundamental en los patrones de movilización ciudadana (Klesner y Lawson 2001).…”
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