How does violence affect foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries? Most research on this question examines political violence, such as war, terrorism, or political instability. However, we know little about how criminal violence – which has wreaked havoc in…

This document deals with the question of how International Organizations (IOs) influence states. Analyzing original quantitative data from Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe, we explore the role of IOs in the configuration of states’ interests and normative agendas,…

Frequent graph pattern mining is an important problem in diverse research fields
but, until recently, algorithms that focus on the problem had only used graph
isomorphism to identify occurrences of a given pattern. In the last years, however,
a few…

In clustering, providing an explanation of the results is an important task.
Pattern-based clustering algorithms provide, in addition to the list of objects
belonging to each cluster, an explanation of the results in terms of a set of
patterns that…

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 as insecure foundations of cross-national data. Despite the incessant…

Dada una muestra aleatoria generada por una mezcla de distribuciones, el objetivo del análisis de conglomerados es partir la muestra en grupos homogéneos en relación a las poblaciones que los han generado. Algoritmos como kmeans y mclust resuelven el problema…

How are committee leaders in legislatures chosen absent seniority norms? This paper argues that the prior political experience of legislators can serve as cues to caucus leaders to reduce adverse selection in a legislature where seniority cannot be the basis…

Procampo was launched in 1994 to help the transition from low productivity
activities to high productivity activities, among other policy objectives. We
investigate the effects of Procampo on migration flows from Mexico to third
countries (mainly the US), and the…

En esta tesis se estudian diferentes aspectos del procesado de imágenes e información en cavidades ópticas no lineales. En la primer parte se estudia el uso de una cavidad de Tipo II de Generación de Segundo Harmónico para realizar operaciones…

This doctoral thesis
deals with management games as a method to be employed
in empirical research on strategic ma
nagement. We believe that management
games, as a kind of laboratory experiment
, are underestimated in management in
contrast to other…