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The (authoritarian) Governor's dilemma: supporting the national authoritarian regime without stoking local demands for political change
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2012)
Studies of authoritarian nations rarely consider the role and activities of regional officials. They are usually assumed to be the involuntary agents of national rulers, or the unwitting victims of local demands for political ...
Congressional negotiations with costly voting: understanding the reforms to PEMEX in 2006-2008
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2016)
The state-owned petroleum company in Mexico has played a fundamental role in the economy, but its productivity has been worryingly in decline. Several presidents of Mexico before Felipe Calderón tried to modernize Pemex ...
Élites y violencia organizada en México
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2014)
Después de su transición exitosa a la democracia, México se ha deslizado hacia una guerra civil económica, la llamada guerra de las drogas, que hasta la fecha ha causado alrededor de 95 mil muertos. ¿Cómo perciben las ...
Judicial institutions and the dilemmas of power-sharing and control in authoritarian regimes
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2014)
En este artículo argumentamos que los dictadores utilizan las instituciones judiciales (fiscales, jueces y tribunales de varios tipos y niveles) para resolver sus dos problemas fundamentales: cómo controlar a las masas y ...
Supply or demand? Politics and the 3X1 program for migrants
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2011)
Collective remittances are the money flows sent by hometown associations (HTAs) to their communities of origin. In Mexico, the 3x1 Program for Migrants matches by three the amounts that HTAs send back to their localities ...
The Catholic Church, political institutions and electoral outcomes in Oaxaca, Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2012)
This study analyzes two competing arguments about the role of the Catholic Church in state politics Oaxaca, Mexico in the 1990s and 2000s. One line of argument claims that progressive Catholic bishops supported and facilitated ...
Mexico's civil war democracy
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2013)
Threats to the integrity of electoral democracy are manifold. The democratic quality of electoral contests can suffer damage from self-serving manipulation by central or subnational governments, foul play by contending ...
"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 ...
The limits to bureaucratic measurement: observation and judgment in comparative political data development
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2010)
Standard methodological advice in the social sciences tells us to base our measurement decisions on observations, not judgments. It presupposes that we divide the process of measurement into two phases. In a first judgmental ...
Emerging trends in the study of electoral authoritarianism
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2013)
Electoral authoritarian regimes practice authoritarianism behind the institutional facades of representative democracy. They hold regular multiparty elections at the national level, yet violate liberal-democratic minimum ...