This study presents the first descriptive data on protest participants and non-participants. Through an original survey we are able to identify motivations, political contexts, and mobilization dynamics in five different protest events in Mexico City from october 2011 to June…

Este Informe busca contribuir a identificar las limitaciones que existen para consolidar un flujo de información que permita la alimentación de bancos de información sobre violencia de género contra las mujeres. En particular, el objetivo general del presente estudio es…

Este artículo investiga empíricamente la relación entre la Política Monetaria Estadounidense y el tipo de cambio real MXN/USD durante el periodo 1996-2012 con datos mensuales. Se considera un enfoque de cointegración utilizando un modelo de determinantes fundamentales del tipo de…

Desde la primera generación de reformas en telecomunicaciones en los años noventa, México ha avanzado significativamente en la adopción de las TIC. Actualmente, este progreso no ha sido homogéneo, las agencias del gobierno federal están usando la computación en la…

En este articulo se estudian los factores que influyen en la concentracion industrial y la forma en que estas relaciones son afectadas por la introduccion de libre comercio. El analisis se hace contrastando las predicciones de las Teorias del Comercio…

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…