Notas sobre la reforma electoral (La persona)

In: Estudios políticos: revista de ciencia política, Issue 14, p. 5-30

Abstract

On paper, Mexicans have universal suffrage, but the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) effectively usurped the political dignity of citizens in the 1970s & 1980s. For the PRI, the dignity of the citizen became the means to the institutional end, rather than the person being the end & the institution the means. Thus, the PRI put a barrier in the way of the historical march of extending voting rights to all persons. Efforts toward voting rights & citizenship are examined in the writing of scholars during the Renaissance. Before that point, those who could participate in policy making had to have rational capacities. This meant that women, slaves, etc, were excluded from policy making & citizenship. With PRI's rejection of women & workers & their rights in citizenship & a culture where political decisions are made by elites, political reform is vital. Adapted from the source document.