When the People Govern: Community Democracy and Legal Pluralism in Ayutla de los Libres (2018–2024)
This article analyzes the transition from a party-based electoral system to an indigenous normative system grounded in uses and customs in the municipality of Ayutla de los Libres, Guerrero, implemented in the 2018 municipal election and sustained in the 2021 and 2024 electoral processes. Drawing on...
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Universidad Nacional de Rosario
2026
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| Acceso en línea: | https://relasp.unr.edu.ar/index.php/revista/article/view/174 |
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| Sumario: | This article analyzes the transition from a party-based electoral system to an indigenous normative system grounded in uses and customs in the municipality of Ayutla de los Libres, Guerrero, implemented in the 2018 municipal election and sustained in the 2021 and 2024 electoral processes. Drawing on a theoretical framework that integrates legal pluralism, community democracy, and indigenous autonomy, and using a qualitative case-study approach based on documentary analysis, the article examines the legal and political disputes surrounding this transformation. The central hypothesis argues that elections based on uses and customs do not represent a democratic anomaly, but rather a legitimate reconfiguration of local political power in response to the crisis of the party system. The article demonstrates that this electoral model embodies a plural, intercultural, and substantive form of democracy driven by indigenous peoples as political actors. |
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