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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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Para entender las instituciones políticas del México democrático
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2006)
La transición a la democracia en México se caracterizó por una sorprendente continuidad. El viejo régimen no se colapsó súbitamente ni hubo rompimiento abrupto con el pasado autoritario. Al contrario, la democratización ...
Patterns of repression and manipulation towards a topography of authoritarian elections, 1980-2002
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2006)
Electoral authoritarian regimes represent the modal type of political regimes in the developing world. To control electoral outcomes, such regimes may deploy a broad variety of repressive and manipulative measures. Despite ...
Policymaking, parties and institutions in democratic Costa Rica
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2006)
This paper identifies the political and institutional conditions that encourage parties to construct long-term agreements for effective public policymaking. It examines Costa Rica, a country that gradually departed, by the ...
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 ...
Contextual effects on the individual rationality: economic conditions and retrospective vote
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2006)
Despite all the methodological problems in defining the proper variables and methods to estimate it, an association between economic perceptions and vote choice in the expected sense seems to be a regular feature of voting ...
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 ...