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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 ...
Criminal violence and the subnational distribution of foreign direct investment
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2015)
How does violence affect foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries? Most research on this question examines political violence, such as war, terrorism, or political instability. However, we know little about ...
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 ...
"Liberating" territory: an empirical examination of the determinants of local control by Sendero Luminoso
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2015)
One of the most influential independent variables in the contemporary analysis of civil war is rebels’ territorial control. And yet, few research efforts have dealt directly with its determinants. In this paper I offer a ...