Partido Revolucionario Institucional: Contexto, situación política y escenarios electorales

1 July 1997

journal article
Published by University of California Press in Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos

Vol. 13 (2) , 325-362
https://doi.org/10.2307/1052019

Abstract

In light of the political changes that have occurred in Mexico in recent years--particularly the reforms initiated in 1982 during the administration of Miguel de la Madrid (1982-1988) and expanded during the presidential term of Carlos Salinas de Gortari (1988-1984)--, this article analyzes the political position of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) and its political-electoral possibilities for the congressional elections of 1997. It studies the party's growing electoral decline at the regional level, the deterioration of its institutional structures, processes, and leadership, and its relations with other political and social actors. In addition, it considers the possible effects of the changes in the electoral formula to the federal legislature and the redistricting of the country on the 1997 elections.

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