Bulletin n. 1/2012
June 2012
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Julián Durazo Herrmann
    Procès de l’autoritarisme subnational : un regard sur l’Oaxaca
    in Politique et sociétés, revue de la Société québécoise de science politique , Volume 30, numéro 2 ,  2011 ,  71-92
    In 2006, the repression of the teachers’ demonstration in the Mexican state of Oaxaca unleashed a long series of protests that culminated in heavy federal police intervention. This revolt followed the intensely contested gubernatorial election of 2004 and denounced the many ongoing authoritarian practices at the subnational level despite the federal transition to democracy. The governor managed to keep his post and headed towards the normal conclusion of his term in December 2010. This paper attempts to explain how this subnational authoritarian enclave survived federal democratization by studying how the local neo-patrimonial domination system managed to adopt formal democratic procedures without calling its authoritarian practices into question. The resulting hybridization process profoundly reformed Oaxaca’s political institutions without substantially affecting subnational authoritarianism’s social sources.
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