- Title Pages
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- 1 Presidential Term Limits
- 2 Theorizing Presidential Rotation
- 3 One Size Does Not Fit All
- 4 Term Limits and the Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendment Doctrine
- 5 <i>Continuismo</i> in Comparison
- 6 Presidential Term Limits in Latin America: <i>c</i>.1820–1985
- 7 Presidential Term Limits as a Credible-Commitment Mechanism
- 8 The Politics of Presidential Term Limits in Mexico
- 9 Presidential Term Limits in Nicaragua
- 10 The Politics of Presidential Term Limits in Tunisia
- 11 Presidential Term Limits in Togo
- 12 Presidential Terms in Kazakhstan
- 13 China
- 14 Term Limits and Succession in Dictatorships
- 15 The Politics of Presidential Term Limits in Malawi
- 16 Should I Stay or Should I Go? Term Limits, Elections, and Political Change in Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia
- 17 Senegal (1970–2016)
- 18 Presidential Term Limits in Burkina Faso
- 19 The Uses and Abuses of Presidential Term Limits in Russian Politics
- 20 The Politics of Presidential Term Limits in the United States
- 21 Presidential Term Limits in Europe
- 22 Term Limits in South Korea
- 23 The Politics of Presidential Term Limits in Argentina
- 24 The Politics of Presidential Term Limits in Central America
- 25 The Politics of Presidential Term Limits in Latin America
- 26 Presidential Term Limits in Bolivia
- 27 Presidential Term Limits and the International Community
- 28 Effects of Presidential Term Limits
- 29 What Have We Learned about Presidential Term Limits?
- Index
The Politics of Presidential Term Limits in Mexico
The Politics of Presidential Term Limits in Mexico
- Chapter:
- (p.141) 8 The Politics of Presidential Term Limits in Mexico
- Source:
- The Politics of Presidential Term Limits
- Author(s):
Joseph L. Klesner
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
In Mexico’s presidential system, the struggle over term limits was at the heart of efforts to institutionalize regimes from 1857 through 1933. Before the 1910 Revolution, Porfirio Díaz both called for his predecessors’ overthrow by appealing to the principle of no-re-election and then manipulated that principle in order to stay in power. The rallying cry of the 1910 Revolution became “Effective Suffrage, No-Reelection.” Despite a late-1920s effort to backpedal from no-re-election, the principle has been scrupulously adhered to. It was extended to all electoral offices in 1933. As a consequence, the revolutionary party was able to avoid one-man rule during its 71 years in power. Term limits promoted the circulation of party militants in electoral office and appointed positions even while it weakened the legislature in its relationship to executive power. Even after the revolutionary party lost power in 2000, it kept reformers from amending non-re-election for legislators until 2014.
Keywords: No-re-election, re-election, term limits, Institutional Revolutionary Party PRI, Dedazo, Alvaro Orbregón, Porfirio Díaz, Plutarco Elias Calles
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- Title Pages
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- 1 Presidential Term Limits
- 2 Theorizing Presidential Rotation
- 3 One Size Does Not Fit All
- 4 Term Limits and the Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendment Doctrine
- 5 <i>Continuismo</i> in Comparison
- 6 Presidential Term Limits in Latin America: <i>c</i>.1820–1985
- 7 Presidential Term Limits as a Credible-Commitment Mechanism
- 8 The Politics of Presidential Term Limits in Mexico
- 9 Presidential Term Limits in Nicaragua
- 10 The Politics of Presidential Term Limits in Tunisia
- 11 Presidential Term Limits in Togo
- 12 Presidential Terms in Kazakhstan
- 13 China
- 14 Term Limits and Succession in Dictatorships
- 15 The Politics of Presidential Term Limits in Malawi
- 16 Should I Stay or Should I Go? Term Limits, Elections, and Political Change in Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia
- 17 Senegal (1970–2016)
- 18 Presidential Term Limits in Burkina Faso
- 19 The Uses and Abuses of Presidential Term Limits in Russian Politics
- 20 The Politics of Presidential Term Limits in the United States
- 21 Presidential Term Limits in Europe
- 22 Term Limits in South Korea
- 23 The Politics of Presidential Term Limits in Argentina
- 24 The Politics of Presidential Term Limits in Central America
- 25 The Politics of Presidential Term Limits in Latin America
- 26 Presidential Term Limits in Bolivia
- 27 Presidential Term Limits and the International Community
- 28 Effects of Presidential Term Limits
- 29 What Have We Learned about Presidential Term Limits?
- Index