This book broadens and deepens the factors that have allowed the consolidation of the prevailing political structure in Mexico City, and its influence on local electoral processes. A long-term ethnographic study is displayed that shows, on the one hand, how this structure influences the dynamics of the elections, explaining the recent changes in the electoral preference of the inhabitants of Mexico City from the PRD to Morena; on the other, the way in which it favors very similar political-cultural practices in delegational demarcations with very different characteristics.

Formed by a network of relations of alliance between party factions associated with different parties, and a plethora of organizations whose accessions are conditioned to circumstantial advantages; This political structure propitiates that the electoral foundations of the parties depend on conjunctural and volatile alliances and negotiations, generating party alternations as a result of the recomposition of alliances, but lacking in different political proposals.

From the project The Paradoxes of Democracy in Mexico, coordinated by Héctor Tejera Gaona, we have published by the same author in this editorial house Citizen Participation and Political Structure in Mexico City (2015).