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Inconsistencias contaminantes: gobernación electoral y conflicto postelectoral en las elecciones presidenciales de 2006
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2009)
Cuando partidos o candidatos derrotados rechazan el resultado de una elección, casi invariablemente aseveran haber sido víctimas de fraude. La democracia les exige aceptar su derrota, el fraude los libera de esta exigencia. ...
The new institutionalism in the study of authoritarian regimes
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2009)
In recent years, we have seen the rise of a “new institutionalism” in the study of authoritarian regimes that takes seriously previously neglected pillars of non-democratic governance: nominally democratic institutions, ...
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 ...
Academic market failure: data availability and quality in comparative politics
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2009)
Over the past two decades, we have seen an impressive expansion of quantitative work in comparative politics. The expanding edifice of quantitative cross-national political research, however, rests upon incomplete as well ...
The twin uncertainty of authoritarian regimes
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2012)
Authoritarian rulers have a twin problem of uncertainty. They have a problem of “institutional uncertainty.” Their survival in power is insecure. And they have a problem of “informational uncertainty.” The foundations of ...
The quantitative skeleton of comparative politics
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2008)
On the basis of a broad sample of quantitative studies in comparative politics, published in leading academic journals between 1989 and 2007, this paper offers an empirical radiography of data usage in comparative empirical ...
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 ...
Transitions from electoral authoritarianism
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2010)
The recent comparative literature on authoritarian institutions has been tracing the consequences formal institutions bear on the longevity of authoritarian rule. Striving to explain transitions from electoral authoritarian ...
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 ...
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 ...