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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 ...
Inconsistencias contaminantes: gobernación electoral y conflicto postelectoral en las elecciones presidenciales de 2006
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2009)
Cuando partidos o candidatos derrotados rechazan el resultado de una elección, casi invariablemente aseveran haber sido víctimas de fraude. La democracia les exige aceptar su derrota, el fraude los libera de esta exigencia. ...
Las reformas electorales de 2007
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2009)
En México, las instituciones políticas (en particular, las reglas electorales) han sido modificadas para mejorar la posición política de los actores involucrados. Las reformas al Cofipe y la Constitución mexicana tuvieron ...
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 ...
Confronting pluralism: constitutional reform in Mexico after Fox
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2006)
Since 2000 Mexico is experiencing two novel political conditions: the defeat of the PRI in a competitive presidential election and a new presidency without majority in either chamber of a bicameral congress. In what is ...
Protest beats manipulation: exploring sources of interparty competition under competitive and hegemonic authoritarianism
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2008)
Electoral authoritarian rulers face a potential strategic dilemma. They need to contain the uncertainty of national elections and they need to maintain a minimum of popular support. Yet, achieving the former through electoral ...
Cabinet turnover and talent searches
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2006)
We develop and test arguments about the causes of individual-level cabinet turnover in parliamentary democracies. Unlike studies of cabinet duration, which focus on bargaining failure across parties, our arguments focus ...
Academic market failure: data availability and quality in comparative politics
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2009)
Over the past two decades, we have seen an impressive expansion of quantitative work in comparative politics. The expanding edifice of quantitative cross-national political research, however, rests upon incomplete as well ...