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The effect of electoral rules on indigenous voting behavior in Mexico's state of Oaxaca
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2008)
This study analyzes whether subnational ethnic group and institutional variation leads to variation in ethnic group political behavior. To this end, I focus on the political behavior of indigenous groups in Mexico. Though ...
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, ...
Presidentes fuertes, provincias poderosas: la economía política de la construcción de partidos en el sistema federal argentino
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2003)
La investigación reciente destaca dos tendencias enfrentadas en los estudios sobre la política de Argentina. Una pone énfasis en la fortaleza de las instituciones federales; la otra, en la posición poderosa de los presidentes ...
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 ...
Some facts and fictions about violence and politics in Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2012)
This essay examines the effect of Mexico’s security strategy and security situation on public opinion. Political and policy analysts are highly divided as to the merits of the Mexican government’s war against the nation’s ...
El efecto de las reglas electorales sobre el comportamiento de la votación indígena en el estado mexicano de Oaxaca
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2009)
Este estudio analiza si las variaciones subnacionales de los grupos étnicos e instituciones conducen a una variación en el comportamiento político de los grupos étnicos. Con tal propósito, este trabajo se concentra en el ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...