Political legitimacy and legal openness in the sub-national party systems: Mexican case in a comparative perspective

Roy González Padilla, Carlos Leonhardt Álvarez

Abstract


This article is in line with a research agenda that raises questions about the relationship between political legitimacy and party system’s regulation in Latin America. In this regard, the identification of the thresholds set to regulate the entry of new political contenders to the electoral arena as well as the analysis of the conditions that facilitate their entry from the sub-national level are presented as indicators that are analysed in this paper in order to test a recent working hypothesis according to which the less legitimate a party system is, the more open it becomes.

Keywords


political legitimacy; legal thresholds; sub-national party systems; Latin America; Mexico

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/al.2015.2.85
Date of publication: 2016-03-25 09:16:50
Date of submission: 2016-03-24 12:41:08


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