Encuesta Nacional sobre el Votante Mexicano. Primeros resultados

Abstract

Right after the July 6 1997 election, a national survey wasmade - by CIDE's request - on the reasons that motivated the peoplepolled to participate in the elections, as well as on the reasons of theirvote. This survey responds to the international initiative of compara-tive study based on the elaboration of electoral surveys relativelycoincident between 1996 and 1999. This initiative emerged from themembers of the Intemational Commitee for Research into Electionsand Representative Democracy (ICORE), and has constituted itselfas The Comparat-ve Study of Electoral Systems, in which more than87 countries participate.The survey contained two modules. The ?rst constitutes theseries of common questions that will be asked in the elections of all themembers countries. The second module comprehends a wider set ofquestions to mesure the variables that support diverse hypothesisformulated by the reearch team, that designed the project in order toexplain the electoral behavior of Mexicans in general and a series ofpeci?c questionings on the July 1997 election.The core purpose of this note is to describe the nature of theproject and the theoretical foundations in which it is frames, as wellas to present the ?ndings of the questions from the surveys interna-tionale module.