Electoral authoritarian regimes represent the modal type of political regimes in the developing world. To control electoral outcomes, such regimes may deploy a broad variety of repressive and manipulative measures. Despite their empirical as well as normative relevance, we possess…

This paper presents a preliminary evaluation of the distribution at the household level of benefits from the Sistema de Protección Social en Salud (SPSS), or Seguro Popular, in its initial phase of operations. This health protection scheme was introduced in…

La pregunta que se responde en este trabajo es la siguiente: ¿es posible construir una matriz de contabilidad social con el agua como factor de la producción para un estado de la República Mexicana? La pregunta es relevante debido a…

Frequently the research on organizational behavior has considered the job satisfaction as one of its most important objectives of study, and has tried to explain it based on different factors. Nevertheless, those factors habitually exclude the fulfillment of norms as…

Do countries need a large menu of organizational forms? Does the flexibility of a larger organizational menu provide advantages for businesses? This paper explores these questions by studying the choice of organizational form in an underdeveloped civil law country undergoing…

This paper is an exploratory study of perception of users of the judiciary system for family justice in the Federal District. Habitually, academic Literature and press consider that the central problems of the judiciary system are: costs, delay, complexity and…

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…

Sabemos muy poco sobre la organización y el funcionamiento de los gobiernos estatales. Incluso información básica sobre recursos humanos, prácticas de gestión financiera y controles internos es escasa. Esta carencia es un freno al avance de la investigación, pero también…

En este trabajo se muestra que el efecto "flypaper" ha estado presente en las transferencias no condicionadas que han recibido los municipios en México durante el periodo de 1990 a 2007. Utilizando datos tipo panel, confirmamos que hay una sustitución…

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…