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Trevizo, D. (2011). Rural Protest and the Making of Democracy in Mexico, 1968–2000. Penn State University Press. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/2/monograph/book/2411.

Provides data and explanations as to the reasoning behind rural support for the PRD. Due to prior countryside activism, the author posits that Mexico's civil society was prepared for a unified, left political party. The author also explores the relationship between loyal, rural PRD voters and left-organizaing that occurred in the past in the countryside. She has found that this relationship is statistically significant between “prior protests against repression of rural activists and whether electorates in those states eventually elected a left governor” (Trevizo 185) as well as “between prior left organizing in the countryside and long-term electoral support for the left party in presidential races…” (Trevizo 182). Torres-Ruiz, René. “Historia del PRD: surgimiento, desarrollo y decadencia de un partido de izquierda.” Revista Mexicana de Estudios Electorales, vol. 5, no. 26, 26, July 2021, pp. 25–60.

Torres-Ruiz, R. (2021). Historia del PRD: Surgimiento, desarrollo y decadencia de un partido de izquierda. Revista Mexicana de Estudios Electorales, 5(26), Article 26. http://www.rmee.org.mx/index.php/RMEstudiosElectorales/article/view/385.

PRD was created based on a variety of ideological positions and included various organizations and groups. As a result, during the party's first years there was competition within the party to organize internal party politics rather than presenting a coherent, unified political party. After the elections of 1988, the PRD was the victim of political violence due to the threat it posed to Salinas and PRI. Additionally, Salinas openly resorted to the accusation of electoral fraud. The party sought change from a bottom-up strategy while pushing from the top in order to simultaneously be a political party and a social movement. This ensured that the party would be capable of winning elections whilst also not losing its social base. In 1997, Cárdenas won election of the Federal District with 48.11% of the vote. After the 1985 earthquake in Mexico City, Cárdenas received significant support from various militant urban organizations of the Movimiento Urbano Popular (MUP). AMLO became president of the party from 1996-1999 and helped to establish the party by reincorporating formerly abandoned political causes and winning many political seats.

Prud’homme, J.-F. (2003). El Partido de la Revolución Democrática: las ambivalencias de su proceso de institucionalización. Foro Internacional, 43(1 (171)), 103–140. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27739167.

Correa-Cabrera, G. (2013). Democracy in 'two Mexicos' : political institutions in Oaxaca and Nuevo León. Palgrave Macmillan.

Provides analysis of the poorer Southern state of Oaxaca with the richer, more equal and democratic state of Nuevo León. Through this analysis, the author offers insight into the contribution of socioeconomic conditions and institutional capability to political factionalism.

Gutmann, Matthew C. (2002). The romance of democracy : compliant defiance in contemporary Mexico. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 1-59734-876-7. OCLC 70734402.

Bruhn, Kathleen (1997). Taking on Goliath : the emergence of a new left party and the struggle for democracy in Mexico. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 0-271-01586-1. OCLC 33665202.