La participación electoral en México tiene dos facetas. Por un lado, los ciudadanos acuden a las urnas por las mismas razones que los votantes de democracias ya establecidas: los recursos individuales y las pertenencias ...

Las transiciones a la democracia se caracterizan por un alto grado de incertidumbre. Todo intento por explicar el comportamiento electoral en regímenes en transición requiere la inclusión de la incertidumbre como un factor ...

Este artículo argumenta que la democratización del sistema político mexicano no ha sido acompañada por cambios en el cálculo electoral de los votantes. Los factores que influyen en la elección partidista se han mantenido ...

In this article I first review some general features of the Mexican economy and the reform process starting with De la Madrid's government. In the second part I will discuss how economic performance influenced people's ...

I will focus in particular on three areas where I expect uncertainty to be widespread during regime transition: I) uncertainty about political stability; 2) uncertainty about future economic performance and 3) uncertainty ...

This article analyzes Mexicans' electoral calculus in the three federal elections celebrated in the 90s (1991, 1994, 1997). The hypothesis that the country's democratization is related to a change in the voters' calculus ...

Unlike game-theoretic approaches, empirical analyses of electoral choice have traditionally neglected the impact of uncertainty on voting behavior. An important limitation of the few works on uncertainty is that the mechanism ...

Good economic performance has traditionally been an asset for incumbent politicians. People support their government when the economy is doing well and oppose it when economic conditions decline. A healthy economy is good ...

This article explores the determinants of the vote in regimes that experience a political transition. First of all, it states that the electoral process and the transition to democracy keep an endogenous relation, since ...