Abstract

GUTIERREZ SANCHEZ, Héctor  and  AVILA-EGGLETON, Marcela. Parties or conjectural candidates; Temporal space patterns in the Mexican vote from 1994 to 2015. Tla-melaua [online]. 2019, vol.13, n.46, pp.76-96.  Epub Oct 02, 2020. ISSN 2594-0716.  https://doi.org/0000-0002-0493-5482.

For some years, the Michigan model has been in dispute with the theory of cognitive mobilization.

First, the political party is seen as the determinant to emit the electoral vote; The second, to the evaluation of candidates and conjunctures. The electoral results from 1994-2015 were analyzed, from these two theoretical perspectives. It was expected that the electoral results of legislative votes -where, the party would be the only guide for the voter- would work as the Michigan model assumes and for it to be stable in time and space.

Also, that the executive elections were irregular, being more susceptible to individualist cognitive mobilization. The opposite was found: the presence of executive candidates makes the electoral results more homogeneous, which seems to suggest that party and cognitive mobilization might not be antagonistic, but, in some way, part of the same mechanism.

Keywords : Elections; Mexico; party; cognitive mobilization.

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