TY - BOOK AU - Eisenstadt,Todd A. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Courting democracy in Mexico: party strategies and electoral institutions AV - JL1292 .E36 2004eb U1 - 324/.0972 21 PY - 2004/// CY - Cambridge, New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Elections KW - Mexico KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Political parties KW - Democratization KW - Election law KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-339) and index; 1. Electoral Courts and Actor Compliance: Opposition-Authoritarian Relations and Protracted Transitions -- 2. Ties That Bind and Even Constrict: Why Authoritarians Tolerate Electoral Reforms -- 3. Mexico's National Electoral Justice Success: From Oxymoron to Legal Norm in Just over a Decade -- 4. Mexico's Local Electoral Justice Failures: Gubernatorial (S)Election Beyond the Shadows of the Law -- 5. The Gap Between Law and Practice: Institutional Failure and Opposition Success in Postelectoral Conflicts, 1989-2000 -- 6. The National Action Party: Dilemmas of Rightist Oppositions Defined by Authoritarian Collusion -- 7. The Party of the Democratic Revolution: From Postelectoral Movements to Electoral Competitors -- 8. Dedazo from the Center to Finger Pointing from the Periphery: PRI Hard-Liners Challenge Mexico's Electoral Institutions -- 9. A Quarter Century of "Mexicanization": Lessons from a Protracted Transition -- App. A. Coding the Postelectoral Conflict Dependent Variable -- App. B. Coding of Independent Variables; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10120474 ER -