While literature of democratization emphasizes the important role of power-sharing “pact” between authoritarian government and unitary and institutionalized opposition, no scholarly work has specified when such opposition emerges. The aim of this paper is to answer this question by analyzing the case of Mexican opposition party, PAN. More specifically, the author focuses on the impacts of electoral law in 1963 /1977 on the institutionalization of the PAN. Based on newly available archival documents of the Mexican Ministry of Interior as well as the opposition party PAN, the author shows that, while electoral law in 1963 prevented the PAN from institutionalizing its internal structures, electoral law in 1977 enabled the PAN render itself as an institutionalized and unitary political party, because electoral law in 1977 stabilized the career patterns within the PAN.
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