Participation and Representation in Oaxaca, Mexico’s Customary Law Elections: Normative Debates and Lessons for Latin American Multiculturalism

Eisenstadt, Todd A.; Yelle, Jennifer

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“…As shown elsewhere (Eisenstadt and Yelle 2012), officials involved in deciding which municipalities were to be sorted into the UC category and which were to retain party-based elections acknowledged that part of their decision was based on political criteria, without considering whether the municipalities were mostly indigenous (according to the INEGI census bureau's recognized definition of ethnic identity, whether a citizen speaks an indigenous language). Empirically, the most basic descriptive statistics also support Anaya-Muñoz and Recondo's reasoning.…”

Section: The Political-rather Than Ethnic-context Of Oaxaca's 1995 Ucmentioning

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Multicultural Institutions, Distributional Politics, and Postelectoral Mobilization in Indigenous Mexico

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2014

Lat. Am. polit. soc.

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Contrary to the predictions of “power sharing” to mitigate ethnic conflicts, multicultural rights recognition can actually increase the frequency of local postelectoral mobilizations. This article demonstrates that the adoption of an ethnic rights regime for electing local government representatives may actually increase conflict if these multicultural laws are not carefully circumscribed to avoid violating human rights. Focusing on the 1995 multicultural rights reforms in Oaxaca, it presents evidence that legal changes purportedly implemented to recognize indigenous rights actually increased postelectoral disputes due to conflicts between county seat communities and peripheral population hamlets over access to funding by the central government. Based on this finding, the article addresses normative implications of “power‐sharing” multiculturalism, recommending that multicultural laws be implemented only together with legal mechanisms to solve postelectoral disputes.

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Section: The Political-rather Than Ethnic-context Of Oaxaca's 1995 Ucmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multicultural Institutions, Distributional Politics, and Postelectoral Mobilization in Indigenous Mexico

Eisenstadt¹,

Ríos

2014

Lat. Am. polit. soc.

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Participation and Representation in Oaxaca, Mexico’s Customary Law Elections: Normative Debates and Lessons for Latin American Multiculturalism

Cited by 1 publication

References 8 publications

Multicultural Institutions, Distributional Politics, and Postelectoral Mobilization in Indigenous Mexico

Multicultural Institutions, Distributional Politics, and Postelectoral Mobilization in Indigenous Mexico

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