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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 ...
Congressional campaigning in Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2006)
How has congressional campaigning changed during the transicion to democracy in Mexico? To answer this question, I examined how both the hegemonic PRI and the weak opposition parties carried out electoral campaigns during ...
Hasta en las mejores familias: Madrazo and the PRI in the 2006 presidential elections
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2007)
This work examines how the possibilities of winning an election affect the strategies of the party’s factional leaders toward the presidential campaign. Using an original data base of the strategies of 132 PRI leaders to ...
Las reformas electorales de 2007
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2009)
En México, las instituciones políticas (en particular, las reglas electorales) han sido modificadas para mejorar la posición política de los actores involucrados. Las reformas al Cofipe y la Constitución mexicana tuvieron ...
"A ras de suelo": candidate appearances and events in Mexico´s presidential campaign
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2007)
This work examines a crucial part of modern presidential campaigning in Mexico: candidate appearances in municipalities. It also traces the changes in presidential campaigning over the past 30 years and finds that modern ...
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 ...