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…

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…

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…

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…