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Para entender las instituciones políticas del México democrático
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2006)
La transición a la democracia en México se caracterizó por una sorprendente continuidad. El viejo régimen no se colapsó súbitamente ni hubo rompimiento abrupto con el pasado autoritario. Al contrario, la democratización ...
Constitucional design and democratic performance in Latin America
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2006)
This paper examines the impact of two models of constitutional design on Latin American politics. It suggests that the debate about the advantages and disadvantages of presidentialism needs to move beyond a discussion of ...
The fall of the dominant presidency: lawmaking under divided government in Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2006)
Transition from authoritarianism to democracy involved the dismantling of the hegemonic party system. Through a long and complex process that gained momentum after the 1988 presidential elections, the political hegemony ...
Policymaking, parties and institutions in democratic Costa Rica
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2006)
This paper identifies the political and institutional conditions that encourage parties to construct long-term agreements for effective public policymaking. It examines Costa Rica, a country that gradually departed, by the ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Patterns of repression and manipulation towards a topography of authoritarian elections, 1980-2002
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2006)
Electoral authoritarian regimes represent the modal type of political regimes in the developing world. To control electoral outcomes, such regimes may deploy a broad variety of repressive and manipulative measures. Despite ...
Why is structural reform stangnating in Mexico?: policy reform episodes from Salinas to Fox
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2006)
This paper evaluates several hypotheses about why political systems implement structural reforms. It examines Mexico, a middle income developing country with one of the fifteenth largest economies in the world. This paper ...