Mexico's left : the paradox of the PRD / Dag Mossige.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mossige, Dag Drange, 1976- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Partido de la Revolución Democrática (Mexico).

Right and left (Political science).

Intra-party disagreements (Political parties).

Mexico--Politics and government--2000-.

Mexico.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colorado : FirstForumPress, Incorporated, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Explores the inner workings of Mexico’s largest left-wing party, the PRD, and its seemingly unending internal wars.

Contents:

Title Page ; Copyright page ; Dedication; Contents; Figures and Tables; Figures; Figure 1.1: PRD Members Murdered, 1988-2011; Figure 2.1: Poll of Presidential Race Polls, October 2005-June 2006; Figure 8.1: PRD Vote Intention, 2008-2009; Tables; Table 1.1: Senate Representation by Party, 1964-2012; Table 1.2: Chamber of Deputies Representation, 1964-2012; Table 2.1: Voter Ideological Self-Placement, 2006; Table 2.2: July 2, 2006 Presidential Election Results; Table 2.3: PRD 10th Extraordinary Congress Delegates by Current; Table 2.4: Chamber Deputies Elected by Circumscription, 2006

Table 2.5: SMD Votes by Party, 2006Table 3.1: 1988 Electoral Results Provided by the PMS; Table 4.1: PRD 1996 Internal Election by Party Base; Table 4.2: Municipalities Won, 1990-2010; Table 4.3: Local Deputyships Won by Party (Percentage); Table 5.1: Preferred Organizational-Ideological Model24; Table 5.2: Composition of the Legitimate Government, 2007-2009; Table 5.3: 2008 PRD Internal Election by Party Base; Table 8.1: Chamber Deputies Elected by Circumscription, 2009; Table 8.2: 2009 Federal Election Districts Won by Party; Table 8.3: 2009 SMD Party Vote (Percentage)

Table 8.4: Municipalities Governed by the PRD, 2010Table 8.5: PRD Membership by State, 2012; Table 9.1: July 1, 2012, Presidential Election Results; Table 9.2: Chamber Deputies Elected by Circumscription, 2012; Table 9.3: 2012 SMD Party Vote (Percentage); Acknowledgments; Acronyms; Chapter 1- The Paradox of the PRD: What Went Wrong?; A Theoretical Puzzle; Ideological Division: The Usual Suspect; Divisions Old and New: The Importance of 2006; The Tricky Concept of Party Institutionalization; The PRD: A Personalistic, Mobilizational Partido-Movimiento; The Consequences of the Movement Logic

The Nature of the InvestigationThe Structure of the Book; Chapter 2- 2006: What Happened to Mexico's Democracy?; "Watergate Is Child's Play Compared with What Went on Here"6; A Campaign of Polarization; The Programs: Truly Left and Right?; The Mistakes of a "Different Campaign"; Beyond the Party: The Redes Ciudadanas Controversies; "Defending" the Vote: Did the Redes Matter?; Challenging the Electoral Result through the Institutions; Did a Fraud Take Place?; Challenging the Institutions Through the Mobilized Movement; Should Calderón Be Recognized?; The Legislative Dilemma; Conclusion

Chapter 3- The PRD: Born on the Back of a FraudThe July 6, 1988 Fraud; The PRI Regime and the Corriente Democrática; Candidate Cárdenas; After the Election: Divide and Conquer; Constructing the PRD; The First Elections: Violence and Repression; Identity, Ideology, and the Challenges of "Internal Democracy"; Two Principal Dilemmas: Organization and Orientation; Intransigence and Self-Exclusion from Electoral Reform; A Split over Reforms in the Face of Rebellion; Out-Radicalized on the Left: The PRD and the EZLN; The 1994 Campaign: A Defeat for Movementism

Reform or Rupture: A Party Watershed in 1995

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62637-392-2

OCLC:

1334344105