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The sub-national public spending studies in Mexico have increased in the last years. Nevertheless, it is unknown if the party ideology has an effect on it. Therefore, this paper explores whether this variable influences on the public expenditure. Based on the case of Jalisco, this research compares PAN and PRI governments to show their decisions on public expenditure. The results show that the panista government gave more resources to public investment, education and rural development; meanwhile the priista government gave more to public health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article presents a literary criticism for the book "Yo fui Plutarco Elías Calles," by Alfredo Elías Calles. The author examines the interaction between history and fiction in the book and analyzes the inclusion of biographical elements regarding Plutarco Elías Calles, the Mexican president from 1924-1928.

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This article discusses the history of the Mexican political party the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (Institutional Revolutionary Party), during the period 1939-1977. The author comments on the importance of the PRI for the Spanish republican exiles living in Mexico at the time of Spanish rule under Francisco Franco. He also considers the political support offered by the Cardenas government in Mexico to the PRI. An analysis of the evolution of the foreign relations between Mexico and Spain during this period is also provided.

In this article, the author provides a well-balanced analysis of the Mexican electoral processes from 1976 to 2012. After revisting the recurrent end-of-term crisis during the pri regime, the author describes the different political strategies employed by Salinas, Zedillo, and Fox, explains the troublesome and uncertain 2006 presidential election, and concludes with an evaluation of the 2012 election. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a discussion on the opinions of Mexican philosopher Emilio Uranga surrounding the Mexican Revolution, utilizing various newspaper articles written by Uranga during 1960 and 1961. Analysis of Uranga's defense of the popular view against the intellectual support of left-wing opposition is provided, and issues of political ideology, political philosophy and the intellectual participation in Mexico's political structure are also discussed. Uranga's philosophy is situated within the context of Mexican president Adolfo López Mateos and the rule of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional.

Previous important studies examine the role of "risk" propensity in shaping vote choices in Mexico. However, none of these studies determine the degree to which short and long term factors influence a traditionally risk averse respondent's enthusiasm to vote for an opposition party. Using data from the 2000 election, a campaign where risk played a significant role, we evaluate whether various effects mitigate the role of risk in voting for an opposition candidate. We find that risk propensity has a deterministic impact on vote choice and no amount of campaign effects (short term) or negative image of the PRI (long term) mitigated that role. Yet, we uniquely show that this deterministic impact can vary over the campaign period and across the electoral alternatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article argues that in the 2006 Federal Chamber of Deputies election, individual candidate traits and experience affected electoral outcomes. Analyses were conducted using a unique dataset of biographical information for 171 candidates in 57 randomly drawn districts. The findings demonstrate that candidates mattered in the recent federal legislative elections. Additionally, they show that the common definition of "high quality" candidates (previous office holders) is insufficient in the Mexican case. The second part of the article analyzes how differing types of candidates were nominated by each party/pact, and examines how the types of nominated candidates can be partially predicted based on the party's nominating rules and their pool of members with previous local electoral success. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The disputed presidential elections of 2006 moved the PRI to third place of preferences. While there was a deep polarization between the parties of left and right, and errors in the PRI's campaign, it is also possible to find another cause in the process of choosing the candidate Roberto Madrazo. This paper reconstructs the nomination process of 2005, as well as the historical and short-term conditions that made it possible, the internal confrontations and recomposition of interests of political groups in the PRI, which allowed, for the first time in the history of this party, to make its leader a presidential candidate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) dominated Mexican politics for over 70 years, but its fortunes have been sliding in the past two decades, capped by its loss of the presidency in 2000. The results for the PRI were even worse in 2006, with a third-place finish in the presidential race and significant losses in both houses of the legislature. This paper examines whether or not the PRI risks going from being a dominant party to a third party in a Mexican two-party system. The results suggest that the PRI has fallen behind, but that it may have a limited window to regroup based upon comparative regional advantage in the northern and southern states. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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When presidents do not run for reelection in democracies, the electoral connection is not straightforward. It is not obvious in this case how voters' evaluations of leaders get transformed into votes for political parties, nor how political campaigns affect such a relationship. The argument is that voters' evaluations of presidents, which can be measured by presidential approval ratings, work as an information shortcut about the future performance of the candidate; as campaigns generate information about contenders, approval of the retiring president matters relatively less in the voting decision. Based on econometric analysis and four nationwide polls conducted from October 2005 to June 2006, the article tests these hypotheses using the case of the 2006 Mexican presidential election. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Party struggles constitute an important moment to analyze the interaction between the political and media systems. Press representations by means of production and treatment of information are key aspects for the constitution of the thematic agenda. The internal selection of the candidate to the government of the State of Mexico by PRl for the 2005 elections is an example of the construction of political discourse through journalistic practices. This relationship uncovers newspapers as subordinates to political power. The degree of subordination of the press is analyzed in three newspapers where the results highlight a press that supports official versions of the internal process that simulate competition and division of the local PRI. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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