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Título del libro: Claiming And Contesting Representation In Mexico: Meanings, Practices And Settings
Título del capítulo: Delivering Genuine Change and National Redemption: Representative Claims in Mexico?s 2018 Election

Autores UNAM:
FERNANDO FRANCISCO CASTAÑOS ZUNO;
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Año de publicación:
2024
Palabras clave:

Andre manuel lopez obrador; Democratic transition in mexico; Electoral politic in mexico; Electoral politics; Me-xico; Mexican election 2018; Mexican political party; Political parties; Populism and politic; Populism in mexico; Representative claim


Resumen:

This chapter adapts Saward?s notion of representative claim to study the electoral achievement of coalition Juntos Haremos Historia (We Will Make History Together, JHH), in the 2018 Mexican election. This coalition was led by Movimiento de Regeneración Nacional (Movement for the Regeneration of the Nation, MORENA), a new party founded by Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), who became its presidential candidate. JHH won the presidential election by a landslide. We argue that this result is a case of effective claim-making, based upon a populist and Messianic discourse in a context of widespread representative disaffection that developed after Mexico?s democratic transition. After noting how the representative claim perspective helps to understand how representation?s complexities unfold as part of democratic advance or deterioration, the chapter discusses the conditions that strengthened AMLO?s cause, in particular citizen disaffection with political parties and politicians. The chapter goes on to describe the winning claim-?makers?: AMLO, MORENA and JHH. Finally, the chapter discusses the representative claims put forward by JHH and analyses the circumstances that made them effective and considers the risks to democracy associated with the emergence of a new dominant party and the new president?s populist discourse. © 2024 Bristol University Press.


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