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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 ...
Electoral institutions and democratic consolidation in the Mexican states, 1990-2004
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2008)
The organization of fair election requires impartial and independent electoral management bodies. We exploit the longitudinal variation in political competitiveness in Mexico’s local and state elections from 1990 to 2004 ...
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 ...
Judicial institutions and corruption control
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2008)
This paper is an inquiry into whether certain judicial institutions are better for controlling corruption. It argues that (i) in a system of checks and balances the relation between judicial independence and corruption is ...
The durability of constitutions in changing environments: a study on constitutional stability in Latin America
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2007)
Political scientists often consider constitutions and their various designs as key variables for explaining a wide range of relevant outcomes, such as the stability and quality of democracy, economic performance, or the ...
Threats and partial concessions in the exhaustion of the Zapatista wave of protest, 1994-2003
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2009)
Using Poisson regression models, I analyze the effects of repressive threats and procedural concessions on Zapatista protests from 1994 to 2003. Some of the results appear consistent with previous findings in the literature ...
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 ...
The new institutionalism in the study of authoritarian regimes
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2009)
In recent years, we have seen the rise of a “new institutionalism” in the study of authoritarian regimes that takes seriously previously neglected pillars of non-democratic governance: nominally democratic institutions, ...
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 ...