Indigenous Participation, Representation, Policy, and Electoral Systems

• In Event: Institutions and Inclusion (Virtual)

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to see the extent to which political institutions explain the indigenous socio-political participation and representation in Mexico during the period from 1960 to 2020. The hypothesis is that electoral system reforms and some indigenous policies, such as the national indigenous institute, encouraged indigenous people to participate in the representation (electoral) process. As a result, we assume that the indigenous people’s presence in different national representation bodies increased. This is to say, I expect to find a positive interactive effect of electoral systems and indigenous policies on indigenous people’s participation and political representation. To test this hypothesis, I will use quantitative and qualitative methods. For the analysis, data will come from the official Mexican Government web site, the Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE) or Electoral National Institute of Mexico, and the Base-de Datos CIIR.

Author

• Clemente Quinones, Georgia Gwinnett College