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- Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
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- Latin American socio-political dynamics
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Autonomous University of Queretaro
2009-2024
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
2024
Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales
2009-2015
Instituto Tecnológico de Querétaro
2014
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas
2007-2010
Vanderbilt University
2007
Instituto Mora
2004-2005
Abstract. Major cross‐national surveys measure popular support for democracy through direct questions about in the abstract. Since people may entertain competing democratic ideas and ideals, however, academic community ignores extent to which standard capture citizen liberal democracy. To solve validity problems associated with measures of support, this article proposes linking them more concrete, indirect principles institutions. It employs statistical technique cluster analysis establish...
Much of what we know about public support for democracy is based on survey questions “democracy,” a term that varies in meaning across countries and likely prompts uncritically supportive responses. This paper proposes new approach to measuring democracy. We develop battery 17 cover all eight components liberal as defined by the V-Dem project. then ask respondents from 19 national samples evaluate these rights institutions. find considerable heterogeneity how our items cohere, especially...
Journal Article Opening the Black Box: How Satisfaction with Democracy and its Perceived Efficacy Affect Regime Preference in Latin America Get access Rodolfo Sarsfield, Sarsfield is Associate Professor Political Methodology at Instituto Mora Mexico. His research interest rationality public opinion. Address correspondence to Department of Sociology, Mora, Plaza Valentín Gómez Farías No. 12, Colonia San Juan Mixcoac, C. P. 03730, Mexico City, Mexico, E-mail: rsarsfield@institutomora.edu.mx...
Según la definición ideacional del populismo, una narrativa es populista si se caracteriza por cosmología maniquea que divide a comunidad política entre un pueblo, concebido como entidad homogéneamente virtuosa, y élite, pensada corrupta (Hawkins Rovira Kaltwasser, 2019; Mudde, 2004). A partir de esta definición, el presidente México, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) parece haber exhibido populista. Partiendo aquella conceptualización centrándose en estudio caso, este trabajo indaga sobre...
Public support for a democratic system of government is thought to be one the main bulwarks against backsliding. Yet much what we know about democracy based on survey questions "democracy," term that varies in meaning across countries and likely prompts socially desirable responses. Instead, propose new approach measuring democracy: using battery 17 questions, ask respondents from 19 national samples evaluate more granular rights institutions collectively constitute liberal democracy. We...
ABSTRACT Mounting evidence suggests that Latin American democracies are characterized by politics and societies becoming more divisive, confrontational, polarized. This process, which we define here as the “new polarization” in America, seems to weaken ability of democratic institutions manage resolve social political conflicts. Although recent scholarship polarization is integral contemporary patterns “backsliding” seen much world, this new region has not yet received systematic scholarly...
ABSTRACT The ideational definition of populism proposes that a narrative is populist if it characterized by Manichean cosmology divides the political community between “people,” conceived as homogeneously virtuous entity, and an “elite,” corrupt entity. Departing from conceptualization, this work first investigates specific stories Andrés Manuel López Obrador uses to spread his worldview, which we call “storytelling.” We define idea storytelling art telling story where emotions, characters...
Las principales encuestas comparativas de opinion publica miden el apoyo popular a la democracia traves preguntas directas sobre en abstracto. Sin embargo, como los ciudadanos pueden tener ideas divergentes democracia, no sabemos hasta que punto las estandar captan su liberal. Para resolver problemas validez sufren mediciones y abstractas, proponemos vincularlas con indirectas mas concretas principios e instituciones democraticos. Pare este fin, empleamos tecnica estadistica analisis...
Brief theoretical framework: Tales, Identities and Detachment toward Democracy
Breve marco teórico: Relatos, identidades y desapego hacia la democracia
La teoría de la elección racional ha dominado durante mucho tiempo el estudio corrupción y diseño las políticas prácticas anticorrupción. A pesar del auge, aceptación difusión este enfoque, muchos países, no obstante, han logrado avances en reducción comportamiento corrupto (Heywood 2017; Marquette Pfeiffer 2015; Mungiu-Pippidi, 2023; Per-sson, Rothstein Teorell 2013; Rose-Ackermann Palifka 2016). Una razón tal fracaso podría ser que los supuestos sobre motivaciones individuos son demasiado...
Along with other major concepts in political science, such as democracy (Collier and Levitsky 1997; Munck Verkuilen 2002), ideology (Gerring 1997), populism (Weyland 2001), the rule of law seems to be an essentially contested concept (Gallie 1956; Collier, Hidalgo Maciuceanu 2007). Several contesting conceptions have been provided by Fuller, Finnis, Raz, Dworkin, few eight dimensions (Fuller 1981) many fourteen (Lauth 2001). Consensus on this may not rapidly forthcoming. However, important...
According to the ideational definition of populism, president Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), has certainly exhibited a populist narrative (Sarsfield 2022). Departing from such conceptualization, this work tries explore, however, contextual dimensions in AMLO's that here, following growing literature on political rhetoric, we call “storytelling” (e.g., Engesser et al. 2021). We define idea storytelling as “art telling story where emotions, characters and other details are...
This paper aims to assess the value of causal mechanism approach (Hedström and Swedberg, 1998; Elster, Gambetta, 1998) in public opinion research. With this idea mind, our work explores types rationality that underlie choice for political regime, understanding those as mechanisms intervene process preference formation. In doing so, we seek “clarify, what it might mean practical terms – i.e., practicing social scientists assume a mechanismic view causation” (Gerring, 2007:165). The strategy...