Alternation, Transition, and Regime Change in Mexico: Is the Glass Half Full or Empty?

Abstract

How 'rational' can voting decisions and behaviour be if it is based on the dissemination of untruthful and deceitful information and images, especially in a context where 'images triumphed over issues' and 'perceptions of the candidates' capacities...were crucial factors in determining the election's outcome' (Greene, p. 265). [...]the 'intelligent' campaign change was illegal! According to Aguayo, Robert Scott's Mexican Government in Transition (1959) 'se empeña en demostrar que aun cuando todavía no somos como Estados Unidos...vamos por muy buen camino' (p. 62). According to Wuhs, these ideas, documents and views are steeped in the foundational identities of the PAN and the PRD as harbingers of democracy, and as anti-PRI parties. In this sense, the glass would probably be half empty. [...]many are pointing to the troublesome direction that change is taking.