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Primaries, conventions, and other methods for nominating candidates: how do they matter?
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2016)
The way political parties select their candidates should be considered a fundamental topic in political science. In spite of being profoundly consequential in several regards, candidate-selection methods were understudied ...
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 ...
When will incumbents avoid a primary challenge?: primary elections to aggregate partial information about candidates' valence
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2012)
When can a party insider, such as an incumbent, feel safe from an outside challenge for a future nomination? In most countries, parties can choose whether to hold a primary election where the rank-and-file members take a ...
Clientelismo y corrupción electoral en México: persistencia a pesar de los avances legislativos
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2016)
¿Qué desafíos enfrentan todavía los procesos electorales en México? El objetivo principal de este artículo es analizar algunos problemas particularmente duraderos de la democracia mexicana. Para ser concretos, argumento ...
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 ...
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 ...
How could Pemex be reformed?: an analytical framework based on congressional politics
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2011)
We analyze the feasibility of legal reforms to the Mexican oil industry. We do so by studying the politics of energy reform as they occur in Congressional negotiations. The main contribution of the paper is to offer an ...
Does charisma discourage experience and encourage extremism?: the electoral strategies of a populist candidate
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Administración Pública, 2017)
I model an election between a populist candidate with litle government experience and high charisma, and a mainstream candidate with much government experience and low charisma. Taking a step back in time, I also model the ...
Demise and resurrection of a dominant party: understanding the PRI's comeback in Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2013)
Dominance by a single party can deteriorate the quality of representation. Yet, surprisingly, voters sometimes support a formerly dominant party they had previously thrown out of power. As an important case, this essay ...
Should we expect primary elections to create polarization?: a robust median voter theorem with rational parties
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2017)
A core concern about the use of primary elections is whether they induce political parties to adopt extremist ideological positions. Many scholars and pundits have blamed primary elections as a source of polarization, but ...