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Why is structural reform stangnating in Mexico?: policy reform episodes from Salinas to Fox
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2006)
This paper evaluates several hypotheses about why political systems implement structural reforms. It examines Mexico, a middle income developing country with one of the fifteenth largest economies in the world. This paper ...
La industria del amparo fiscal
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2009)
En este documento se analiza la industria del amparo fiscal en México. Se trata de una industria exitosa y floreciente que se ha establecido a partir de una interpretación “garantista” del artículo 31 de la Constitución. ...
Operationalizing and reconstructing the theory of nationalism
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2007)
This paper contributes to the elaboration of a unified theory of how nations are constructed. It identifies four types of mechanisms that have been posited in the literature, and tests them as explanatory hypotheses about ...
Análisis de la evolución de la matrícula de las licenciaturas en ciencia política, administración pública y relaciones internacionales en México, 1974-2004
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2008)
Este trabajo ofrece un primer análisis sobre la evolución y comportamiento de la matrícula y nuevos ingresos para las carreras de ciencia política (CP), ciencia política/administración pública (CPAP) y relaciones internacionales ...
An antitrust theory of group recognition
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2007)
This paper proposes a domination-sensitive litmus test for determining whether a national state’s courts and legislatures should give prima facie standing to a national minority’s claim to group recognition. Analogizing ...
The effect of electoral rules on indigenous voting behavior in Mexico's state of Oaxaca
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2008)
This study analyzes whether subnational ethnic group and institutional variation leads to variation in ethnic group political behavior. To this end, I focus on the political behavior of indigenous groups in Mexico. Though ...
Institutions for constitutional justice in Latin America
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2009)
This paper surveys arguments that consider an institutional feature to explain the behavior of constitutional judges and maps their existence or absence in a sample of eighteen Latin American countries from 1945 until 2005. ...
Constitucional design and democratic performance in Latin America
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2006)
This paper examines the impact of two models of constitutional design on Latin American politics. It suggests that the debate about the advantages and disadvantages of presidentialism needs to move beyond a discussion of ...
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 ...