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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 ...
What makes strong federalism seem weak?: fiscal resources and presidential-provincial relations in Argentina
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2006)
Recent administrations support conflicting conclusions about the nature of Argentine federalism. President Carlos Saúl Menem (1989-1999) easily pushed through policy changes with the rubber stamp governors and Congress, ...
Politics and sector-specific stock market performance
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2009)
To date, studies of the effect of politics on markets have generated a variety of often conflicting conclusions. I argue that this conflict originates not from the need to refine current analyses but the need to move away ...
Do investors assess the credibility of campaign commitments?: the case of Mexico's 2006 presidential race
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2006)
Do investors assess the credibility of campaign rhetoric? To answer this question, I develop several alternative arguments for how investors might consider candidates’ policy platforms and apply them to Mexico’s 2006 ...
Political career of party reputational concerns?: determining how partisan effects matter for subnational fiscal discipline, evidence from Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2009)
State governors copartisan with national presidents are known for greater fiscal discipline than those from opposition parties. Yet, scholars use two distinct mechanisms to explain this: some argue political career concerns ...
Latin America's (legal) subnational authoritarian enclaves: the case of Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2006)
This article evaluates two arguments about how local leaders perpetuate authoritarian control over subnational governments amidst national democracy. One argument highlights the important role of political isolation in ...
"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 ...