El Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD) y su dirigencia fraccionada

Abstract

This paper deals with the case of the Mexican PRD (Partido de la Revolución
Democrática). It studies the organizational evolution of PRD using a model of
institutionalizaton which diverges from classical theories and conceives their
institutionalization in a less strict way, as they lack formally strong structuration.
The text shows the capacity of informal party agreements to allow for relative
degrees of institutionalization of a leadership that is originally disjointed. In this way the theoretical perspective indicates that party institutionalization does not necessarily implies an organizational development manifested in rutinized practices.