La Ley Electoral Federal de 1946 y su influencia en la administración electoral en México: una mirada retrospectiva

• Ayala López, José Fernando ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo

     Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo

     México

     
• Localización: Revista Política, Globalidad y Ciudadanía, ISSN-e 2395-8448, Vol. 1, Núm. 2, 2015 (Ejemplar dedicado a: July - December), pág. 41
• Idioma: español
• Títulos paralelos:
  • The Federal Electoral Act of 1946 and its Influence on the Electoral Administration in Mexico: a look back
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  • español

    A raíz de las diversas reformas político-electorales, que a partir de 1977 se han sucedido casi ininterrumpidamente hasta nuestros días, las instituciones electorales encargadas de organizar las elecciones han sido dotadas de nuevos instrumentos para encargarse de la organización de los comicios; esta tarea tuvo un punto crítico de maduración con la autonomía y la ciudadanización del Instituto Federal Electoral (IFE) al despuntar el segundo lustro de los años noventa del siglo pasado. A partir de ese momento, la institución electoral se proyectó, no sólo como baluarte de la administración electoral, sino como un organismo constructor y difusor de valores ciudadanos. En este sentido, los mass media(especialmente la televisión, la cual en gran medida ha masificado la idea democrática de participación ciudadana), han coadyuvado en esta labor, situación que sin embargo ha generado tensiones entre los viejos sectores sociales de trabajadores, sindicatos y campesinos que le fueron leales —consciente o inconscientemente—al régimen autoritario priista y que tuvieron que adecuar sus prácticas electorales a las nuevas normas del juego, en una dinámica que pervive hasta ho

  • English

    As a result of the various political and electoral reforms that since 1977 there have been almost continuously until today, electoral institutions in charge of organizing elections have been equipped with new tools to deal with the organization of the elections; this task was a critical point of ripeness with autonomy and citizen participation the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE, for its acronym in Spanish) at the dawn of the second half of the nineties of the last century. From that moment, the electoral institution is designed not only as a bulwark of the election administration, but as a body builder and promoter of civic values. In this sense, the mass media (especially television, who has made accessible to all the democratic idea of citizen participation) have assisted in this task however this situations has created tensions between the old social sector workers, unions and peasants who were loyal —consciously or unconsciously— to the PRI authoritarian regime and they had to adapt their electoral practices to the new rules of the game, in a dynamic that survives to this day.

    However, studies addressing the issue of the transition to democracy in Mexico, begin their analysis since the electoral reform of 1977, without assessing the real dimension the electoral reforms that created those institutions, leaving plow the way through which, first, the structure of PRI domination remained in power until 2000, and second, how the same structure created in an authoritarian context was exploited in the process of transition to democracy. This apparent contradiction is clear from analyzing the Federal Electoral Act of 1946 as an instrument through which a federal model of electoral administration that influenced all subsequent electoral systems at least until the 1996 reform was established.