Abstract

CASAS CARDENAS, Ernesto  and  AVILA SANCHEZ, Rocío Jazmín. Design and reform of electoral system at the subnational level: The Mexican case. Polis [online]. 2013, vol.9, n.1, pp.11-42. ISSN 2594-0686.

This paper examines the political conditions, which are designed and reformed the electoral systems in the states legislatures, and why the assumptions of stability and resistance to change of electoral system not explain the dynamic of electoral reform processes at the subnational level.

Keywords : Subnational electoral system; electoral reform; subnational party system; political alternation; democracy.

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