Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Courting Democracy in Mexico
- 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
- Appendix A Coding the Postelectoral Conflict Dependent Variable
- Appendix B Coding of Independent Variables
- Bibliography
- Index
Appendix A - Coding the Postelectoral Conflict Dependent Variable
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Courting Democracy in Mexico
- 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
- Appendix A Coding the Postelectoral Conflict Dependent Variable
- Appendix B Coding of Independent Variables
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The sample states slightly overrepresent both opposition-party registration of candidates and postelectoral conflicts, but in most cases, the sample does not overrepresent the universe of all of Mexico's municipalities by more than 5 percent (Table A.1). Postelectoral conflicts were coded from a wide range of media sources, including those listed in Appendix B.1 with regard to coding of the independent variable “localized social conflicts,” as well as the national and local newspapers cited in the bibliography. Multiple opposition-party mobilizations in one municipality were rare, but when they occurred, in every case I entered only the mobilization by the non-PRI contender (PAN or PRD), as there were not enough PRI or third opposition-party mobilizations to allow for the model to retain statistical significance when they were included as separate dependent variable categories. In the dozen or so cases with mobilizations by both the PAN and the PRD, the higher vote-getter among the runner-up parties was credited with the conflict, as I considered that party to be the main postelectoral contender (and usually there was a large margin between second- and third-place finishers). Just as electoral contention was either PRI-PAN or PRI-PRD but almost never PAN-PRI-PRD (at least not until the late 1990s), postelectoral contention also followed this pattern during the period under study. The selection of the ten sample states and specification of the time periods is addressed in Chapter 5.
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- Courting Democracy in MexicoParty Strategies and Electoral Institutions, pp. 293 - 294Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003