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Gender quotas are not enough: how background experience and campaigning affect electoral outcomes
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2011)
This paper asks why women politicians tend to do worse in SMD districts than in their PR counterparts, even with gender quotas. Mexico is an excellent case to study this phenomenon because it has a PR and a SMD tier, both ...
Electoral institutions and democratic consolidation in the Mexican states, 1990-2004
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2008)
The organization of fair election requires impartial and independent electoral management bodies. We exploit the longitudinal variation in political competitiveness in Mexico’s local and state elections from 1990 to 2004 ...
Supply or demand? Politics and the 3X1 program for migrants
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2011)
Collective remittances are the money flows sent by hometown associations (HTAs) to their communities of origin. In Mexico, the 3x1 Program for Migrants matches by three the amounts that HTAs send back to their localities ...
The past as future: prior political experience and career choices in Mexico, 1997-2006
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2008)
Using an original dataset of the prior career paths and ex-post political positions of 1,400 federal deputies from three legislatures (1997-2000, 2000-2003 and 2003-2006), this paper presents the first systematic study of ...
Committee leadership selection without seniority: the Mexican case
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2009)
How are committee leaders in legislatures chosen absent seniority norms? This paper argues that the prior political experience of legislators can serve as cues to caucus leaders to reduce adverse selection in a legislature ...