※　メキシコ保守政党 PAN の形成と台頭を歴史的・政治的文脈から読み解く本格的研究書　※

本書は、メキシコにおける保守政党「国民行動党（PAN）」が、創設期の弾圧や周縁化を経て、いかに政治的影響力を獲得し国家権力へ接近していったかを、歴史的経緯と制度的条件の両面から分析する研究書です。著者は、党の思想的基盤、組織構造、社会的支持層の形成過程を詳細に検討し、長期にわたり支配的であったPRI体制下での政治的闘争と戦略的適応を明らかにしています。また、地方選挙での浸透、宗教的ネットワークとの関係、市民社会との連携、政策的立場の変遷などを史料に基づき整理し、PANが「殉教」的抵抗から制度的競争主体へと変貌する過程を立体的に描いています。メキシコの政党政治、民主化過程、保守思想の研究にとって重要な視座を提供する内容です。

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メキシコ／20世紀〜21世紀初頭／政党政治研究・民主化研究・政治思想史・地域政治研究／対象はメキシコ政党史、保守政治、制度的競争の分析を専門とする研究者です。
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FROM MARTYRDOM To POWER provides a comprehensive examination of the origins, development, and rising electoral prominence of Mexico’s Partido Acción Nacional (PAN). Yemile Mizrahi, widely recognized as a leading authority on this topic, has based her book on the extensive research and original field work she has conducted over the past ten years. Her personal interviews with government officials and party leaders and her surveys of public opinion in three Mexican states enrich this unique study.

Mizrahi’s theoretical and empirical analysis of the electoral success of PAN is situated within a larger assessment ofpolitical parties and the changes they undergo. Her discussion ofhow and why political parties adjust to changes in the political landscape is particularly relevant to scholars ofLatin America. Mizrahi contends that PAN party leaders have not acted quickly or decisively enough in making internal changes that will allow them to make a smooth transition from a survivalist minority party to Mexico’s ruling party. In contrast to the past, when the PAN’s main problems were associated with its inefficacy in the electoral arena, today the party confronts problems associated with its electoral success.

Mizrahi argues that PAN’s relatively unchanged party structure presents serious obstacles to electoral expansion. Mizrahi’s account is analytically powerful and offers clear policy and political suggestions for her subject itself.


CONTENTS:

List of Figures, Tables, and Charts......vii
Acknoeledgements......ix

Introduction......1

1. The Paradoxes of Electoral Success......13

2. Political Parties as Organizations: A Typology of Parties......31

3. The PAN as a Sectarian Party......51

4. The PAN as an Electoral Party......67

5. The PAN in Government: Obstacles to Building a Catch-All Party......89

6. The Voters’ Perspective: Explaining the PAN’s Electoral Performance......111

Coclusion: Vicente Fox and the PAN: A Happy Marriage?......139

Notes......151
Bibliography......187
Index......197