Voting for Autocracy: Hegemonic Party Survival and Its Demise in Mexico

by Beatriz Magaloni

Book Overview

This 2006 book provides a theory of the logic of survival of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), one of the most resilient autocratic regimes in the twentieth century. An autocratic regime hid behind the facade of elections that were held with clockwise precision. Although their outcome was totally predictable, elections were not hollow rituals. The PRI made millions of ordinary citizens vest their interests in the survival of the autocratic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521736595
• ISBN13: 9780521736596
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.7"