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- Title
Competir y ganar: Calidad de los candidatos en las elecciones legislativas de 2006 en México.
- Authors
Love, Gregory
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
MEXICO; MEXICO. Congreso. Camara de Diputados; PARTIDO Accion Nacional (Mexico); PARTIDO Revolucionario Institucional (Political party : Mexico); PARTIDO de la Revolucion Democratica (Mexico); ELECTIONS; POLITICAL candidate recruitment; NOMINATIONS for public office; MEXICAN politics &; government, 2000-
- Publication
Política y Gobierno, 2009, p77
- ISSN
1405-1060
- Publication type
Article