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 ...

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, ...

Este trabajo describe una parte esencial de las modernas campañas presidenciales de México: las visitas de los candidatos a las localidades. Revisamos la historia de las campañas presidenciales y describimos de qué manera ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Este volumen especial de Política y Gobierno se ocupa de las elecciones presidenciales y legislativas de México que se llevaron a cabo el 2 de julio de 2006. Estas elecciones ocuparán siempre un lugar especial en la historia ...

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 ...

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 ...