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Congressional negotiations with costly voting: understanding the reforms to PEMEX in 2006-2008
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2016)
The state-owned petroleum company in Mexico has played a fundamental role in the economy, but its productivity has been worryingly in decline. Several presidents of Mexico before Felipe Calderón tried to modernize Pemex ...
Should we expect primary elections to create polarization?: a robust median voter theorem with rational parties
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2017)
A core concern about the use of primary elections is whether they induce political parties to adopt extremist ideological positions. Many scholars and pundits have blamed primary elections as a source of polarization, but ...
The risk of partyarchy and democratic backsliding: Mexico's electoral reform
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2012)
Following the 2006 post-electoral crisis, important changes were made to the Constitution and several ordinary laws in Mexico. Authorities touted that electoral reform as a major triumph for the country’s democracy. However, ...
Enduring challenges of Mexico's electoral democracy
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2015)
Mexico provides significant insight into the modern challenges being faced by many electoral democracies as they strive to become liberal democracies. Based on the 2012 presidential election and subsequent contests, this ...
Vote buying and vote coercion in subnational politics: weaknesses of the Mexican democracy
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2015)
Mexico provides significant insight into the modern challenges being faced by young democracies struggling to shed the remnants of their authoritarian past. Following some classic definitions from democratic theory, the ...
Vote buying with illegal resources: manifestation of a weak rule of law in Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2016)
Mexico’s consolidation strategy seems to be reaching a limit. The country’s transition from authoritarianism was largely based on a series of electoral reforms leveling the playing field in elections. While this strategy ...
Clientelismo y corrupción electoral en México: persistencia a pesar de los avances legislativos
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2016)
¿Qué desafíos enfrentan todavía los procesos electorales en México? El objetivo principal de este artículo es analizar algunos problemas particularmente duraderos de la democracia mexicana. Para ser concretos, argumento ...
Does charisma discourage experience and encourage extremism?: the electoral strategies of a populist candidate
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Administración Pública, 2017)
I model an election between a populist candidate with litle government experience and high charisma, and a mainstream candidate with much government experience and low charisma. Taking a step back in time, I also model the ...
When will incumbents avoid a primary challenge?: primary elections to aggregate partial information about candidates' valence
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2012)
When can a party insider, such as an incumbent, feel safe from an outside challenge for a future nomination? In most countries, parties can choose whether to hold a primary election where the rank-and-file members take a ...
Was Mexico's 2012 election undemocratic?: assessing the fraud accusations
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2013)
This essay studies the main allegations of undemocratic practices in the 2012 election in Mexico, such as vote buying, clientelism and media bias. I evaluate the merit of each accusation based on the available evidence ...