Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lafleur, Jean-Michel

Titel

3 Mexico: Enfranchising Emigrants under Conditions of Democratic Transition

Ist Teil von

• Transnational Politics and the State, 2013, p.50-73

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Enfranchising emigrants when they represent millions of potential voters abroad is a challenge for states. The logistical, financial, and political consequences of such a policy can profoundly impact the functioning of these states and their representative institutions. As I previously hypothesized, sending states may be subjected to the pressure of migrant organizations lobbying for external voting. In addition, the economic input that migrants represent for many sending societies may encourage the strengthening of ties with populations abroad through various diasporic policies such as external voting. But the processes that lead to the adoption of these policies remain largely unknown. How do emigrant associations and lobbies impact sending states' decisions to enfranchise emigrants? What role do the processes of democratic transition play in this debate? How do political parties' speculation on external voters' impact on electoral results shape the content of external voting legislation? These are the questions that I try to address by discussing the debate over enfranchising Mexican emigrants.