This article analyzes the dynamics of democratization in India, Malaysia and Mexico. Over the past decade, these countries, which have been governed by dominant parties, adopted or reinvigorated democratic practices. Unlike the predictions that postulated that democratization often occurs in a context of party competition, the article discusses existing mechanisms in dominant party systems that force the ruling party to encourage political transformations as a survival strategy. These three cases reveal that the growing political opposition at the local level was a determining factor behind the adoption of democratizing measures by dominant parties. Therefore, the article builds on the relationship between democratization and local oppositi...
This article seeks to explain the extent to which transnational forces are responsible for advances ...
How do dominant parties strategize in the context of democratization when the addition of a regime c...
This article outlines the logic and consequences of the classical theory of electoral governance. By...
This article analyzes the dynamics of democratization in India, Malaysia and Mexico. Over the past d...
This article analyzes the dynamics of democratization in India, Malaysia and Mexico. Over thepast de...
This paper will attempt to answer what the current state of contemporary democracy in Mexico is afte...
This paper will attempt to answer what the current state of contemporary democracy in Mexico is afte...
Since the end of the last century Mexico has experienced a profound proces of political and electora...
This paper discusses the role of electoral institutional design in Mexico’s tran-sition to democracy...
Political parties are essential to the functioning of democratic politics, as they serve a variety o...
T his article depicts the different roads that Latin America followed toward democratization the 198...
This article attempts to answer three sets of questions relevant to the democratic transition in Mex...
How to explain political monopolies in democratic institutional settings? Dominant parties in countr...
Increasing the homogeneity of a party’s support across the nation -party nationalization- is a key c...
The subnational variations within a country as diverse asMexico can be as strong as the variation in...
This article seeks to explain the extent to which transnational forces are responsible for advances ...
How do dominant parties strategize in the context of democratization when the addition of a regime c...
This article outlines the logic and consequences of the classical theory of electoral governance. By...
This article analyzes the dynamics of democratization in India, Malaysia and Mexico. Over the past d...
This article analyzes the dynamics of democratization in India, Malaysia and Mexico. Over thepast de...
This paper will attempt to answer what the current state of contemporary democracy in Mexico is afte...
This paper will attempt to answer what the current state of contemporary democracy in Mexico is afte...
Since the end of the last century Mexico has experienced a profound proces of political and electora...
This paper discusses the role of electoral institutional design in Mexico’s tran-sition to democracy...
Political parties are essential to the functioning of democratic politics, as they serve a variety o...
T his article depicts the different roads that Latin America followed toward democratization the 198...
This article attempts to answer three sets of questions relevant to the democratic transition in Mex...
How to explain political monopolies in democratic institutional settings? Dominant parties in countr...
Increasing the homogeneity of a party’s support across the nation -party nationalization- is a key c...
The subnational variations within a country as diverse asMexico can be as strong as the variation in...
This article seeks to explain the extent to which transnational forces are responsible for advances ...
How do dominant parties strategize in the context of democratization when the addition of a regime c...
This article outlines the logic and consequences of the classical theory of electoral governance. By...