Is It Possible to Reduce Political Distrust in Mexico? The Mexican Case (1996-2004)

This paper makes a theoretical course on the importance of political trust in democracy, the historical context of political trust in Mexico and finally a diagnosis of the evolution of distrust in political institutions between 1996 - 2004. The data show that even in a short period of time, it was p...

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Autor: Morales Mena, Agustín
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Revista Mexicana de Opinión Pública
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/45408
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.unam.mx/index.php/rmop/article/view/45408
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Trust
distrust
politics
Mexico
corruption
democracy.
Confianza
desconfianza
política
México
corrupción
democracia
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Sumario:This paper makes a theoretical course on the importance of political trust in democracy, the historical context of political trust in Mexico and finally a diagnosis of the evolution of distrust in political institutions between 1996 - 2004. The data show that even in a short period of time, it was possible to generate trust in the institutions, when there was a congruence among the rules of democracy and election results. However, would not last long, thanks to the poor performance of several governments at all levels, getting back high levels of political distrust after 2000.