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Sánchez‐Gutiérrez, Arturo, and Margarita Moreno López. “Thirty years of illiberal democracy in Guanajuato.” Latin American Policy 12, no. 2 (2021): 516-533.
Abstract
Guanajuato was the second state in Mexico to have political alternation, in 1991. Additionally, it was one of the first states in which there was political alternation at the municipal level, in the 1980s. Since then, alternation at that level of government is frequent. Even though this situation might lead us to think of Guanajuato as a state that has been democratically consolidated over the last 30 years, we find illiberal structures and practices that have been repeated over time and that have come to damage the democratic exercise in the state. This article describes each of the illiberal practices and structures, using data and a case study.
