Unusual Bedfellows? PRI-PVEM Electoral Alliances in Mexican Legislative Elections

Spoon, Jae‐Jae; Gómez, Amalia Pulido

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“…In newer democracies, however, these alliances may not be motivated by a common ideology or policy agenda, but rather by electoral incentives. As Spoon and Pulido (2017) demonstrate, this is the case in Mexico. As the larger party, the PRI wants to ensure its dominance and as the smaller party, the PVEM wants to ensure its survival.…”

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confidence: 83%

“… Source: Instituto Nacional Electoral (see also Spoon and Pulido, 2017). Note : We could not locate information on 16 of the alliance candidates, so they are not included in the data set.…”

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confidence: 99%

“… 3. See Spoon and Pulido (2017) for a further discussion of what explains in which districts the parties enter into alliances. …”

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Strategic alliances: Red, green, or “watermelon” candidates in Mexican legislative elections

Spoon

Gómez

2018

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What role do small parties play in new democracies? Although some research has posited that these parties developed to promote policies that the major parties were not addressing, we argue that they are as opportunistic as their larger party competitors. To test our argument, we examine the legislative electoral alliances between the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the Ecological Green Party of Mexico (PVEM) in single member districts from 2006 to 2015. In alliance districts, the parties distribute the districts between them: those in which the candidate is from the PRI and those in which the candidate is from the PVEM. There is then a second dynamic in these electoral alliances: Many of the PVEM candidates are former PRI politicians, whom we refer to as “watermelon” candidates, as they are green on the outside and red on the inside. We argue that the parties will select the alliance strategy that will be most electorally beneficial—running a PRI, PVEM, or watermelon candidate. We find that running a PRI or watermelon candidate increases the alliance’s probability of winning. Our findings have important implications for understanding Mexican party politics as well as the role of small parties and party competition in developing democracies.

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“… Source: Instituto Nacional Electoral (see also Spoon and Pulido, 2017). Note : We could not locate information on 16 of the alliance candidates, so they are not included in the data set.…”

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Strategic alliances: Red, green, or “watermelon” candidates in Mexican legislative elections

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Gómez

2018

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“…A descriptive and historical approach is used in some papers, such as that of Golder (2006b), who studies electoral coalitions in the French Fifth Republic and post-1987 South Korea. Other studies focus on specific alliances in a given country, such as that of Spoon and Gómez (2017) for the case of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) and the Partido Verde Ecologista de México (PVEM) in Mexico. 12 Electoral alliances in presidential elections, in turn, are analyzed, for example, by Spoon and West (2015) and Kellam (2017).…”

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A model of electoral alliances in highly fragmented party systems

Griebeler

Resende

2020

Journal of Theoretical Politics

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Highly fragmented party systems are composed of a large number of political groups, many of which have negligible bargaining power when it comes to negotiations of electoral alliances. Inspired by the Brazilian system—one of the most fragmented in the world—we provide a stylized model of electoral alliances in which there is a competition for the support of the small parties. Two leading parties try to entice a small one by simultaneously offering transfers (e.g. government positions, support in other elections, prestige). Through a first-price sealed-bid auction approach, we can analyze the role of two particular factors in alliance formation, namely pragmatism and ideology. Our findings show that, in equilibrium, the favorite party tends to offer lower transfers than the underdog. Furthermore, the closer the leading and the small parties are in terms of ideology, the smaller the transferred amount. When the ideological closeness between the small party and the underdog is sufficiently large—relative to the favorite—the effect may be strong enough to overcome the electoral advantage of the favorite.

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“…See http://pv.org.br/opartido/programa/. The Mexican Green Party (PVEM) was founded at a similar time and is also small in terms of vote share, but has a tradition of forming coalitions with one of the mainstream parties (PRI)(Spoon and Pulido Gómez 2017).…”

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Niche parties in Latin America

Kernecker

Wagner

2018

Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties

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Niche parties, which have been defined as focusing on a narrow range of issues their competitors neglect, are a phenomenon that has so far been described and analysed primarily in Western Europe. In this paper, we extend existing work by examining the presence and nature of niche parties in Latin America. Using the expert survey data collected by [Wiesehomeier, N., and K. Benoit. 2009. "President, Parties, and Policy Competition." The Journal of Politics 71: 1435-1447], we show that there are niche parties in most Latin American party systems. Two kinds of niche party, traditionalist and postmaterialist, predominate. We also show that niche parties, despite being defined based on issue-based characteristics, are in fact less programmatic in their linkage strategies than mainstream competitors. Instead, niche parties are slightly more likely to draw on charismatic strategies and tend to establish strong organizational links to ethnic and religious organizations. Niche parties in Latin America are primarily vehicles for the mobilization of group interests. These findings have implications for our understanding of political representation in new democracies and niche party strategies more generally. Recent research on party systems and party competition has focused extensively on niche parties, which are generally defined as parties that focus on certain issues their competitors tend to ignore, with all other parties then classed as "mainstream"

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Unusual Bedfellows? PRI-PVEM Electoral Alliances in Mexican Legislative Elections

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Cited by 8 publications

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Strategic alliances: Red, green, or “watermelon” candidates in Mexican legislative elections

Strategic alliances: Red, green, or “watermelon” candidates in Mexican legislative elections

A model of electoral alliances in highly fragmented party systems

Niche parties in Latin America

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