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…

This work examines a crucial part of modern presidential campaigning in Mexico: candidate appearances in municipalities. It also traces the changes in presidential campaigning over the past 30 years and finds that modern campaigning does not just involve mass media…

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…

This article aims at identifying and characterizing the different configurations of the relevant factors related to administrative procedures, in order to learn about their behavior, and so about decision-making processes. Delays in administrative circuit concretion, users dissatisfaction and lack of…

Este trabajo presenta una estimación de sistemas incompletos de demanda utilizando datos de encuestas de hogares para Argentina, Bolivia y Paraguay. El enfoque empírico consiste en la estimación de un sistema con especificación LinQuad corregido por sesgo de selección y…

We use data from a Maryland farm survey and a multivariate switching regression model with endogenous switching to investigate the effects of information asymmetries on conservation cost sharing contracts. Our estimations indicate that the role that asymmetries of information play…

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…