Judicial policy implementation in Mexico City and Mérida

Comparative Politics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Staton, Jeffrey K ^a  

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DOI: 10.2307/4150123     Document Type: Review

References (59)

1. See Guillermo O'Donnell, "Horizontal Accountability in New Democracies," Journal of Democracy, 9 (July 1998), 112-26.
2. Pilar Domingo, "Judicial Independence: The Politics of the Supreme Court in Mexico," Journal of Latin American Studies, 32 (2000), 705-35; Gretchen Helmke, "The Logic of Strategic Defection: Court-Executive Relations in Argentina under Dictatorship and Democracy," American Political Science Review, 96 (June 2002), 291-304; Matias Iaryczower, Pablo T. Spiller, and Mariano Tommasi, "Judicial Decision Making in Unstable Environments: Argentina 1938-1998," American Journal of Political Science, 46 (October 2002), 699-716.
3. Pilar Domingo, "Judicial Independence: The Politics of the Supreme Court in Mexico," Journal of Latin American Studies, 32 (2000), 705-35; Gretchen Helmke, "The Logic of Strategic Defection: Court-Executive Relations in Argentina under Dictatorship and Democracy," American Political Science Review, 96 (June 2002), 291-304; Matias Iaryczower, Pablo T. Spiller, and Mariano Tommasi, "Judicial Decision Making in Unstable Environments: Argentina 1938-1998," American Journal of Political Science, 46 (October 2002), 699-716.
4. Pilar Domingo, "Judicial Independence: The Politics of the Supreme Court in Mexico," Journal of Latin American Studies, 32 (2000), 705-35; Gretchen Helmke, "The Logic of Strategic Defection: Court-Executive Relations in Argentina under Dictatorship and Democracy," American Political Science Review, 96 (June 2002), 291-304; Matias Iaryczower, Pablo T. Spiller, and Mariano Tommasi, "Judicial Decision Making in Unstable Environments: Argentina 1938-1998," American Journal of Political Science, 46 (October 2002), 699-716.
5. Georg Vanberg, "Establishing Judicial Independence in West Germany: The Impact of Opinion Leadership and the Separation of Powers," 33 (April 2000), 333-53; Georg Vanberg, "Legislative-Judicial Relations: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Constitutional Review," American Journal of Political Science, 45 (April 2001), 346-61.
6. Georg Vanberg, "Establishing Judicial Independence in West Germany: The Impact of Opinion Leadership and the Separation of Powers," 33 (April 2000), 333-53; Georg Vanberg, "Legislative-Judicial Relations: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Constitutional Review," American Journal of Political Science, 45 (April 2001), 346-61.
7. Vanberg, "Legislative-Judicial Relations," p. 347.
8. Arturo Vizcaino Zamora, Mexico City, June 10, 2000. All but three instances of noncompliance investigated by the supreme court during the 1990s ended in the implementation of the decision. A summary of the data on noncompliance claims in amparo suits is available from the author upon request. Although there is considerable variance in the time authorities delay, all cases that were not dismissed by the court ended in compliance.
9. See James L. Gibson, Gregory A. Caldeira, and Vanessa A. Baird, "On the Legitimacy of National High Courts," American Political Science Review, 92 (June 1998), 343-58.
10. David Easton, A Systems Analysis of Political Life (New York: Wiley, 1965).
11. See James F. Spriggs, "The Supreme Court and Federal Administrative Agencies: A Resource-Based Theory and Analysis of Judicial Impact," American Journal of Political Science, 40 (November 1996), 1122-51.
12. See Robert Stover and Don Brown, "Understanding Compliance and Noncompliance with the Law: The Contributions of Utility Theory, " Social Science Quarterly, 56 (1975), 363-75; John A. Clark and Kevin T. McGuire, "Congress, the Supreme Court, and the Flag," Political Research Quarterly, 49 (1996), 771-81.
13. See Robert Stover and Don Brown, "Understanding Compliance and Noncompliance with the Law: The Contributions of Utility Theory, " Social Science Quarterly, 56 (1975), 363-75; John A. Clark and Kevin T. McGuire, "Congress, the Supreme Court, and the Flag," Political Research Quarterly, 49 (1996), 771-81.
14. See Randall L. Calvert, "Rationality, Identity, and Expression," in Ira Katznelson and Helen Milner, eds., Political Science: The State of the Discipline, 3rd ed. (New York: W. W. Norton and American Political Science Association, 2002).
15. Vanberg, "Establishing Judicial Independence," pp. 341-48.
16. See Clark and McGuire, p. 776; and Richard M. Johnson, The Dynamics of Compliance: Supreme Court Decision-Making from a New Perspective (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1967).
17. Thomas E. Nelson and Donald R. Kinder, "Issue Frames and Group-Centrism in American Public Opinion," Journal of Politics, 4 (November 1996), 1055-78.
18. Vanberg, "Establishing Judicial Independence," pp. 344-45.
19. On qualitative designs for testing multivariate theories, see Gary King, Robert Keohane, and Sidney Verba, Designing Social Inquiry (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994), pp. 140-41.
20. Isaac Katz, "The Crisis of the Mexican Banking System," Western Centre for Economic Research Information Bulletin, 41 (October 1996), 1-8.
21. Michael W. Mackey, "Informe de Michael W. Mackey en la evaluación integral de las operaciones y funciones del Fondo Bancario de Proteccion al Ahorro, FOBAPROA y la calidad de supervisión de los programas del FOBAPROA de 1995 a 1998 (Julio de 1999)," Gaceta Parlamentaria, Cámara de Diputados.
22. Ley de Instituciones de Crédito, Titulo Sexto, Articulo 117.
23. Andres Oppenheimer, "Banker Tells of Huge PRI Donations: Fugitive Says $25 Million Campaign Gift 'Normal' in Mexico," Miami Herald, May 29, 1999, p. 16A.
24. Ley de Protección al Ahorro Bancario, Articulo 7, transitorio. On the response of the secretary of finance and public credit, see Comunicado de prensa 71/99, Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público, Unidad de Comunicación Social.
25. Semanario Judicial de la Federación y su Gaceta Tomo: XII, Agosto de 2000, Tesis: P./J. 87/2000 Página: 980.
26. Comunicado de prensa 0007/2000, Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores.
27. Article 90, Codigo Electoral del Estado de Yucatan (CEEY).
28. Juicio de Revisión Constitucional, SUP-JRC-440/2000 and SUP-JRC-445/2000 Acumulados (113).
29. Luis A. Boffil Gómez, "Legisladores del PRI pretenden prolongar los poderes en Yucatán," La Jornada, Internet Edition, Nov. 17, 2000.
30. Luis A. Boffil Gómez, "El Congreso de Yucatan desafia a tribunal federal," La Jornada, Internet edition, Nov. 18, 2000.
31. Luis A. Boffil Gómez, "Reinstala el Congreso de Yucatán a consejeros invalidados por el Trife," La Jornada, Internet edition, Jan. 5, 2001.
32. Acuerdo 13/2001, Sala Superior 14 March 2001.
33. Gustave Castillo Garcia, "Invalida la Suprema Corte el superconsejo electoral yucateco," La Jornada, Internet edition, Apr. 8, 2001.
34. Luis A. Boffil Gómez, "Descarta Cervera un nuevo desacato; la fecha de comicios, inamovible: Creel," La Jornada, Internet edition, Apr. 10, 2001.
35. On addressing uncertainty in qualitative studies, see King, Keohane, and Verba, pp. 31-32.
36. It is beyond the scope of this article to provide a comprehensive list of citations. A search for articles on the Fund for the Protection of Bank Savings during 2000 at La Jornada's web site under "FOBAPROA" generated 1,305 hits. A similar search under "Gobernador Cervera" during 2001 generated 587 hits. Even a search under "Myrna Hoyos" generated seventy-five. In contrast, a search under "Anatocismo" or "Capitalization de intereses," terms used by the press to describe another politically salient supreme court decision, generated at most twenty-nine hits during the time the case was covered. For a list of front page articles on the cases, please contact the author.
37. See Andrea Becerril, "El expediente, nuevo motivo de enojo para priístas," La Jornada, Aug. 25, 2000.
38. Personal communication with Alfredo Rodriguez y Pacheco, president of the PAN State Executive Committee, June 26, 2001, and Efraín Poot, a political anthropologist in Mérida, June 27, 2001.
39. These data are still not ideal. I would like to compare national support for the court's Zedillo decision with state support for the court's Cervera decision. Unfortunately, data restrictions obviate such a comparison. Still, the results suggest that the court was more or less equally supported in both cases.
40. Gibson, Caldeira, and Baird, p. 355.
41. The data were obtained from surveys conducted by the newspaper Reforma. Information on the sampling design can be obtained at www.reforma.com/encuestas or by contacting the author.
42. Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León," Inaugural Address, December 1, 1994.
43. See Jeffrey Weldon, "Political Sources of Presidencialismo in Mexico," in Scott Mainwaring and Matthew Soberg Shugart, eds., Presidentialism and Democracy in Latin America (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998); Luis Rubio, "Coping with Political Change," in Susan Kaufman Purcell and Luis Rubio, eds., Mexico under Zedillo (Mexico City: CIDAC, 1998).
44. See Jeffrey Weldon, "Political Sources of Presidencialismo in Mexico," in Scott Mainwaring and Matthew Soberg Shugart, eds., Presidentialism and Democracy in Latin America (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998); Luis Rubio, "Coping with Political Change," in Susan Kaufman Purcell and Luis Rubio, eds., Mexico under Zedillo (Mexico City: CIDAC, 1998).
45. Fabiola Guarneros, Francisco Arroyo, and Jorge Teherán, "Se cansó la gente del PRI, dice EZ a gobernadores," El Universal, Internet edition, July 4, 2000.
46. Reported in Francisco Arroyo, '"A la basura,' malos lideres del tricolor," El Universal, Internet edition, July 9, 2000. It should be noted that the PRI was clearly divided over how to deal with Zedillo. Juan Arvizu Arrija, "Demanda Zedillo civilidad politica," El Universal, Internet edition, July 26, 2000.
47. Reported in Francisco Arroyo, '"A la basura,' malos lideres del tricolor," El Universal, Internet edition, July 9, 2000. It should be noted that the PRI was clearly divided over how to deal with Zedillo. Juan Arvizu Arrija, "Demanda Zedillo civilidad politica," El Universal, Internet edition, July 26, 2000.
48. This request was denied by the honor committee of the CEN. See Francisco Arroyo, "Rechaza Comisión de Honor expulsar a Zedillo y Salinas," El Universal, Internet edition, Aug. 3, 2000.
49. Mario Torres, "Hoy vivimos una normidad democrática," El Universal, Internet edition, July 13, 2000.
50. See http://zedillo.presidencia.gob.mx/pages/f_arch_comun.html.
51. Joseph L. Klesner, "The 1998 Mexican State Elections: Post-Election Report," Western Hemisphere Election Studies, 17 (Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1998). Recent state electoral results can be found at http://www.pan.org.mx.
52. Under a variety of multivariate specifications, the differences among PRI, PAN, and PRD identifiers are consistently statistically significant. Since support for Cervera is not being tested, the results are not presented here. They are available upon request.
53. Data provided by Reforma to the author are derived from the same series used to generate national support for supreme court cited in the text above.
54. Daniel C. Levy and Kathleen Bruhn, Mexico: The Struggle for Democratic Development (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), p. 137.
55. It is likely that Zedillo's argument was intended for public consumption, rather than to convince fellow priistas. After all, he was issuing press releases and giving speeches, rather than simply holding a meeting of national leaders, which he did to help convince party leaders to respect the election.
56. Comunicado Presidencial 2371.
57. Luis A. Boffil Gómez, "En Yucatan, 11 gobernadores priistas dan su respaldo a Cervera Pacheco," La Jornada, Internet edition, Jan. 8, 2001.
58. On Yucatecan identity, see Allison Greene, "Cablevision(nation) in Rural Yucatán: Performing Modernity and Mexicandiad in the Early 1990s," in Joseph Gilbert, Anne Rubenstein, and Eric Zolov, eds., Fragments of a Golden Age: The Politics of Culture in Mexico since 1940 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001).
59. See Richard Davis, Decisions and Images: The Supreme Court and the Press (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1994).