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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 ...
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 ...
An Argument for the ‘Best Loser’ Principle in Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2011)
In the following paper we take advantage of the inherent flexibility of mixed-member systems and propose a new set of electoral rules we argue can help resolve —or at least greatly mitigate— Mexico’s legislative gridlock ...
How could Pemex be reformed?: an analytical framework based on congressional politics
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2011)
We analyze the feasibility of legal reforms to the Mexican oil industry. We do so by studying the politics of energy reform as they occur in Congressional negotiations. The main contribution of the paper is to offer an ...
The tones of democratic challenges: skin color and race in Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2011)
This paper explores people’s political attitudes mediated by their perceived skin tone and their own racial identification in Mexico. As a young democracy Mexico’s political institutions face many challenges while in the ...
Foreign aid and investment in post-conflict countries
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2011)
Does development aid attract FDI in post-conflict countries? This paper contributes to the growing literature on the determinants of FDI and on the effects of foreign aid by explaining how international aid is a signal ...
Social and political consequences of stereotypes related to racial phenotypes in Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2011)
In this paper I study the social and political consequences of Mexicans’ different racial appearances. Common wisdom in Mexico claims that discrimination among Mexicans occurs along socioeconomic lines but that people’s ...
Regulatory lags, liberalization and vulnerability to systemic banking crises
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2011)
What factors make countries vulnerable to banking crises? Particularly, how do reforms in regulation affect the likelihood of banking crises’ onset? Several recent articles describe the “anatomy” of banking crises. However, ...
The origins of Mexico's municipal usos y costumbres regimes: supporting local political participation or local authoritarian control?
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2011)
Despite Mexico’s shift to nationally competitive politics, the majority of the nation’s subnational governments have experienced little to no political change. This study seeks to contribute to our understanding of subnational ...