The crisis of trust in historial political parties and its evolution: the Mexican case

Abstract

In this paper, we offer an approach to the understanding of the so-called crisis of confidence in Mexican traditional political parties, going through the growing disaffection for these classic institutions of representation in moments worthy of attention for the Mexican party system: the first big defeat  was the election of the hegemonic party in the presidential election of year 2000; later the election that brought the return to continuity and the consolidation of political pluralism took place, in year 2012 and, finally, there came the new post-alternation, in year 2018. Statistical, theoretical, and social data from surveys have been used in this paper.  In those surveys that were distributed in Mexico there asked about the extent to which citizens  trust or not these public institutions (political parties), as well as private institutions (such as the Mass Media), and how this feeling has evolved. The available data shows that the traditional Mexican political parties are undergoing a crisis of trust and that they have remarkable challenges ahead. A defence in favour of institutional representation  with corrections that can make it closer, more reliable, more sensitive, and more efficient is suggested here.