The highly publicized transnational political campaign of Andres Bermudez, who ran for mayor of Jerez, Zacatecas, is considered in terms of a continuum of theoretical frameworks on democratic theory and practice. Grounded in intensive qualitative interviews with key participants in the campaign, the study addresses the following questions: To what extent does the Bermudez candidacy contribute to opening up the Mexican political system to the electoral participation of migrants? What implications do the political processes revealed here have for full-scale dual citizenship, including absentee voting and transnational campaigning by Mexican migrants living in the United States? What does the Bermudez story contribute to our theoretical understanding of the character and significance of migrant political transnationalism at the present moment? Answers to these questions make it possible to determine the role of the Bermudez campaign in the ongoing saga of democratization in contemporary Mexico. RESUMEN La ampliamente publicitada campana politica transnacional de Andres Bermudez, que contendio como candidato para alcalde de Jerez, Zacatecas, es analizada en terminos de un continuum de marcos teoricos sobre teoria y practica de la democracia. Con base en intensivas entrevistas cualitativas con participantes importantes de la campana, este estudio considera las siguientes cuestiones: ?Hasta que punto la candidatura de Bermudez contribuye a la apertura del sistema politico mexicano hacia la participacion electoral de los migrantes? ?Que implicaciones tienen los procesos politicos aqui mencionados para una implementacion a gran escala de la doble ciudadania, incluyendo el voto en el extranjero y las campanas transnacionales de migrantes mexicanos que viven en los Estados Unidos? ?En que contribuye el caso de Bermudez para nuestro conocimiento teorico sobre el caracter y significado del transnacionalismo politico de los migrantes en el momento presente? Las respuestas a estos cuestionamientos hacen posible determinar el papel que tuvo la campana de Bermudez en el proceso actual de democratizacion del Mexico contemporaneo.
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