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…

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…

In this paper we investigate by Monte Carlo simulations the bias, mean square error, variance and distribution of estimators for bivariate GARCH models in small samples. The data generating process is a VAR (2) for the conditional mean together with…

El proyecto busca contribuir a la generación de capacidades y al fortalecimiento del gobierno democrático en las 32 entidades federativas mexicanas mediante la construcción de indicadores objetivos que sirvan como insumos para evaluar la gestión pública y los mecanismos de…

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…

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…

The recent comparative literature on authoritarian institutions has been tracing the consequences formal institutions bear on the longevity of authoritarian rule. Striving to explain transitions from electoral authoritarian regimes, the present paper shifts emphasis from the presence of institutions (multiparty…