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Bringing willingness back in: state capacities and the human rights compliance deficit in Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Internacionales, 2017)
This working document is inscribed within the International Relations literature that explores the domestic scope conditions under which governments are more likely to comply with their international human rights commitments. ...
Will publics pay to protect rights?: an experimental study of Mexico City inhabitants’ willingness to donate to local human rights organizations and of these groups’ ability to use this data
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Internacionales, 2017)
Will Mexican citizens donate to their country’s domestic human rights groups? To better explore the potential for human rights fundraising in Mexico, we conducted focus groups and a survey of 960 randomly selected adult ...
A la sombra de Sidney Tarrow: conceptos básicos para el estudio de los movimientos de protesta
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2017)
El propósito de este ensayo es proveer al lector conceptos básicos en la literatura sobre protestas, pues éstas son las formas de expresión más tangibles de un movimiento social. El ensayo comienza con una discusión sobre ...
El fuero en México: entre inmunidad e impunidad
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2017)
El fuero es un instrumento legal que confiere inmunidad procesal a determinados actores políticos, concebido para evitar abusos entre esferas de poder; no obstante, en los últimos años este instrumento ha sido considerado ...
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 ...
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 ...
Cooperación diacrónica para intereses diversos: intereses y lealtades provinciales en la formulación de políticas en Argentina
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2017)
En ausencia de mecanismos para monitorear la cooperación entre legisladores, no resulta claro cómo los representantes pueden cooperar a través del tiempo para proteger los diversos intereses subnacionales de las provincias ...
Defence expenditure and economic growth in Latin American countries: evidence from linear and nonlinear causality tests
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2017-02-09)
Using SIPRI’s new consistent database on military expenditures, the paper examines the economic effects of such spending in the case of the 13 Latin American countries. Employing both linear and nonlinear tests, the nexus ...
Interest rate pass-through in the Dominican Republic
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2017-04-05)
A well-functioning monetary transmission mechanism is critical for monetary policy. As the Dominican Republic recently adopted an inflation targeting regime, it is even more relevant to guarantee that changes in the monetary ...
Changes in rural poverty in Perú 2004–2012
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2017-01-30)
This paper disaggregates the various sources of rural income growth in Peru between 2004 and 2012 and shows that about 80% of the increase came from rising earnings and only 15% from transfer programs. This increase in ...