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…

En este trabajo se estudia el comportamiento de análisis de componentes principales (ACP) y análisis de discriminación binaria (ADB) en el contexto de datos con dimensión mayor al tamaño de la muestra (HDLSS) por sus si

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…

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…

Este resumen se compone de una introducción, que explica el enfoque y contexto de la Tesis, seguida de una sección sobre su organización en partes y capítulos. Después, sigue una enumeración de las contribuciones recogidas en ella, para finalizar con…