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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 ...
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, ...
The origins of Mexico's municipal usos y costumbres regimes: supporting local political participation or local authoritarian control?
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2011)
Despite Mexico’s shift to nationally competitive politics, the majority of the nation’s subnational governments have experienced little to no political change. This study seeks to contribute to our understanding of subnational ...
Latin America's (legal) subnational authoritarian enclaves: the case of Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2006)
This article evaluates two arguments about how local leaders perpetuate authoritarian control over subnational governments amidst national democracy. One argument highlights the important role of political isolation in ...
A rational partisan explanation for irrational (sub) sovereign debt behavior: evidence from municipal Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2014)
If investors and governments are rational, then governments with similar macro-economic characteristics should exhibit similarly balanced debt portfolios among financing instruments. Yet, anecdotal evidence suggests this ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"A ras de suelo": candidate appearances and events in Mexico´s presidential campaign
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Estudios Políticos, 2007)
This work examines a crucial part of modern presidential campaigning in Mexico: candidate appearances in municipalities. It also traces the changes in presidential campaigning over the past 30 years and finds that modern ...
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 ...