In the first section of the paper, the three ruptures will be examined. Within this section, I will examine why no ruptures occurred from 1952 to 1986. Then, to complete the comparative analysis, I will also concentrate ...

How has congressional campaigning changed during the transicion to democracy in Mexico? To answer this question, I examined how both the hegemonic PRI and the weak opposition parties carried out electoral campaigns during ...

One of the reasons given for the considerable longevity of single party regimes is that minority factions within the party-states have few incentives to bring down the regime, yet in Mexico and Taiwan, two of the most ...

Using an original dataset of the prior career paths and ex-post political positions of 1,400 federal deputies from three legislatures (1997-2000, 2000-2003 and 2003-2006), this paper presents the first systematic study of ...

Este artículo analiza los cambios en el reclutamiento de candidatos al poder legislativo para mostrar cómo la creciente competencia electoral está afectando las relaciones de poder dentro del PRI ─el antiguo partido ...

The formerly-hegemonic PRI has been tranformed due to rising levels of electoral competition. This paper compares the professional profiles of the PRI´s senate candidates before and after the on-set of electoral competition ...

The paper will discuss how the political groups within the regime behave given a set of rules that were formed over a period of time beginning in 1934 and which lasted until 1993. The rules circumscribe the political ...

This paper discusses two important developments in the once-hegemonic PRI after its defeat in the 2000 presidential elections. The PRI has successfully avoided the fates of many other hegemonic parties by not splitting ...