Concepts are central to the enterprise of political science. The concepts we use shape the world we see. Without solid conceptual foundations, the edifice of political science is insecure. If we fail to develop clear ...

Cuando partidos o candidatos derrotados rechazan el resultado de una elección, casi invariablemente aseveran haber sido víctimas de fraude. La democracia les exige aceptar su derrota, el fraude los libera de esta exigencia. En muchos ...

In contemporary Mexico, political parties have subject electoral authorities to tight legal regulation. Their reliance on “bureaucratic” control sheds light on a crucial premise of “post-bureaucratic” approaches: deregulation presupposes trust. The article describes the distrust-driven ...

Mexico’s Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) suffers from a dualistic and ambiguous internal structure. On the one hand, the electoral codes confers considerable powers to the Institute’s administrative organs. On the other hand, it endows the ...

In four negotiated electoral reforms between 1989 and 1996, Mexico's political parties transformed the entire structure of election management. While at the end of the 1980s, the organization of elections was still under the complete ...