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…

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…

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…

Using two-wave panel data from the National Survey of Political Culture (ENCUP, in Spanish), I explore if declining satisfaction with democracy in Mexico between 2001 and 2003 owes more to political or economic evaluations. I model the data using a…

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…

Standard methodological advice in the social sciences tells us to base our measurement decisions on observations, not judgments. It presupposes that we divide the process of measurement into two phases. In a first judgmental stage, we reach all the judgments…

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…