The year 2010 saw five gubernatorial elections in Mexico in which the PAN and the left built
electoral alliances. These alliances were made in states with authoritarian features, where …

Nationalization captures the degree to which parties receive similar vote shares throughout
the national territory, and is therefore explicitly interested in spatial aspects of party …

Drawing on ethnographic data and interviews with 45 teachers, teacher trainers, and union
officials in Oaxaca, Mexico, this article asserts that teachers' beliefs in “Oaxacan …

The book analyzes the phenomenon of how indigenous migrants, who escaped social
discrimination and economic exclusion in Mexico, are building a well institutionalized …

The article has three parts. First, I sketch debates concerning the origins, function, and
history of religions context of the Lukan birth narrative and its canticles. Second, I outline the …

Under the consensus that democracy is the least bad form of government, what are the
conditions that make a country democratic or non-democratic is a question that has been …

Since its beginning, the study of social movements has been dominated by case-study
analyses. The main reason has been the labor intensity of the endeavor. Empirical evidence …

Politically Animated studies the convergence of animation and actuality within films,
television series, and digital shorts from across the Spanish-speaking world. It interrogates …

Land conflicts are impediments to human development. Understanding drivers and types of
land conflicts is important both for peaceful conflict resolution and for enhancing the …

In the context of heightened border enforcement associated with prevention through
deterrence policies applied to the US-Mexico border since 1993, this dissertation examines …