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 campaigning does not just involve mass media…

Como una contribución al estudio del Congreso en México, este artículo se centra en la tarea legislativa a partir de cuatro indicadores: el origen de las iniciativas, su tasa de aprobación, los patrones de votación en el pleno de la…

El costo de asegurarnos que el ejercicio del gobierno corresponde con los principios de la democracia liberal debe incluir no sólo el costo de los votos y los partidos, sino también el costo de las instituciones que, en un proceso…

Nuestro objetivo es establecer una serie de hechos básicos sobre la interacción entre crecimiento poblacional, estructura de edades, entorno macroeconómico y crecimiento, habida cuenta de la heterogeneidad observada a escala mundial en estructura demográfica y niveles de desarrollo. En la…

We use data from a Maryland farm survey and a multivariate switching regression model with endogenous switching to investigate the effects of information asymmetries on conservation cost sharing contracts. Our estimations indicate that the role that asymmetries of information play…

When President Felipe Calderón took office he declared a war on drug lords, thus initiating a war of attrition which has claimed more than 40,000 lives in the last 5 years. In this paper I document how this escalation of…

This text uses the principle of proportionality to study the social, legal and moral justification of the current drug policy in Mexico. The text focuses on two senses of proportionality: relative and absolute. By relative proportionality, I refer to the…

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 change. Instead, I argue that regional…

Why do some terrorist groups cooperate with each other, while others attack each other? Terrorist groups frequently interact. Emerging research shows that these network relationships have important consequences, but it remains unclear why some terrorist groups form ties with other…

This essay examines the effect of Mexico’s security strategy and security situation on public opinion. Political and policy analysts are highly divided as to the merits of the Mexican government’s war against the nation’s drug cartels, with some seeing the…