Negotiation and deliberation in Mexico's democratization process : six cases of legal reform
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Hernandez, Mara I. (Mara Isabel Hernandez Estrada)
Advisor(s)
Thomas A. Kochan.
Date Issued
2013
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
This dissertation identifies political practices that increase negotiation effectiveness and democratic legitimacy simultaneously, as key enabling factors for democratization from within a hybrid regime. This finding runs against the Habermasian idea that success-oriented negotiations run counter to the logic of reason-based deliberations that are necessary to produce democratic legitimacy. I present six cases of political negotiation and deliberation that led to major democratic reforms in Mexico, during the period 2006-2009, and offer multiple examples of how negotiation effectiveness and democratic legitimacy reinforced each other or, as predicted by Habermas, entered in tension. Finally, in a comparative analysis of overall levels of democratic legitimacy and negotiation effectiveness across all cases, I find a positive relationship between these two dimensions and trace it to the use of a set of complementary political practices that further both dimensions and, together, may offset the tensions that do emerge when some of the practices are used in isolation. I conclude that reform champions in Mexico need to engage in action that is both strategic and communicative in order to move beyond hybridism into full democracy.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2013.
Page 336 blank. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-328).
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Sloan School of Management.
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Sloan School of Management
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