The democratic revelation

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 18-19

  Schedler, Andreas ^a,b  

^a Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales Mexico   (Mexico)

^b Research Committee on Concepts and Methods (C and M)   (Mexico)

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EID: 24944467086     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jod.2000.0085     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. For a systematic analysis of the "missing links" of the Mexican transition, see José Antonio Crespo, Fronteras democráticas en Mexico: Retos, peculiaridades y comparaciones (Mexico City: Océano, 1999), 191-222.
2. On postmodernity as a "collection of absences," see Zygmunt Bauman, Intimations of Postmodernity (London: Routledge, 1992), 218.
3. The authoritative source on the judicialization of electoral conflict resolution in Mexico is Todd Eisenstadt, "Courting Democracy: Party Strategies, Electoral Institution Building, and Political Opening-Mexico in Comparative Perspective" (Ph.D. diss., University of California-San Diego, 1998).
4. Instituto Federal Electoral, "Información básica sobre el proceso electoral federal de 1999-2000" (Mexico City: IFE, 2000), 12.
5. Raúl Trejo Delarbre, "Los medios también votan: Las campañas de 1997 en televisión y prensa - Un informe preliminar," in Louis Salazar, ed., 1997: Elecciones y transición a la democracia en México (Mexico City: Cal y Arena, 1999), 281.
6. The worst incident was reported from Mixistlán, a small village in the poor southern state of Oaxaca. On 14 June 2000, municipal authorities convened a PRI rally, warning that anyone who failed to attend would be ineligible for federal social-assistance programs. At the end of the meeting, 24-year-old Artemio Antonio Pérez stood up, calling on PRI candidate Cándido Coheto Martínez to stop "deceiving" and "abusing the poverty" of his fellowmen by making "false promises." The candidate, upset over the young man's insubordination, angrily ordered that the man be put in jail. The words he used are as revealing as they are untranslatable: "Oye quien es este hijo de su chingada madre que se esta creyendo . . . mete a la cárcel a este cabrón y pártele su madre para que escarmiente este pinche alborotador y se eduque." The next day, municipal authorities delivered the young man's body, beaten to death, to his mother. For the whole story, as reported by the victim's brother, see the appendix to Movimiento Ciudadano por la Democracia, La pohreza y marginación, instrumento electoral de los partidos politicos: Casos de compra y coacción del voto e irregularidades en el proceso electoral del 2000 (Mexico City: MCD, 2000). Two months later, Cándido Coheto was a happy deputy-elect, while the criminal trial of the municipal authorities was at a standstill and likely to lead nowhere.
7. MUND Opinion Services, "Mundo 2000," nationwide survey (May 2000), n=4.634.
8. Common press conference, Mexico City, Sheraton Hotel, 3 July 2000.
9. "El manifiesto del poder dividido," La Reforma (Mexico City), 3 July 2000, 2A.
10. See María Amparo Casar, "Coaliciones y cohesion partidista en un congreso sin mayoria: la Cámara de Diputados de México, 1997-1999," Político y Gobierno 7 (January-June 2000): 183-202.