Democracy and Global Affairs
Mexico has been building scaffolding to strengthen democracy. The creation of autonomous bodies is proof. Voter turnout increased thanks partly and significantly to the existence of the Autonomous Institute, the INE, which has organized and monitored the electoral process. Challenges remain, and even risks of backsliding, for which it is necessary to refine the country's institutions. Another danger undermining democracy is widespread corruption in many areas of public and private life in the country.
However, these challenges are not exclusive to Mexico; they are framed in complex and uncertain international contexts. Democratic regimes are threatened not only by internal contradictions and weaknesses, as in Mexico, but also by changes in the world order, the return of geopolitical rivalry among world powers, growing populism (both left and right), deglobalization, and the strengthening of authoritarian models and governments throughout the planet. In this context, the School designed the Democracy and Global Affairs Research Group to comprehensively analyze what an effective and credible democracy requires, considering internal and external factors.
In this way, the group generates activities that impact the elaboration of proposals for designing mechanisms and incentives to strengthen democracy while providing a reflective, critical look at the relationship between national and international affairs to consolidate a full democracy in Mexico.
Research lines
• Public Election, Public Opinion, and Voting Methods
• Gender Gap
• Violence, Security, and Corruption
• Democracy and Human Rights
• International Development Cooperation
Leader
Daniel Ricardo Lemus Delgado - dlemus@tec.mx
Members
Alejandro Díaz Domínguez
Ana Claudia Martínez Coutigno
Ángel Gustavo López Montiel
Arturo Sánchez Gutiérrez
Azucena Rojas Parra
Carlos Cerda Dueñas
Carlos Javier Vázquez Ferrel
Eduardo González Velázquez
Erick Viramontes
Gabriel Aguilera López
Gerhard Niedrist
Guillermina Benavides Rincón
Ignacio Irazuzta Di Chiara
Indira Iasel Sánchez Bernal
Jesús Javier Silva-Herzog Márquez
Luz Araceli González Uresti
Marco Antonio Fernández Martínez
Mariana Rangel Padilla
Tamir Bar On
Víctor Aurelio Zúñiga González
• Bar-On, Tamir (2021). The Alt-Right’s Continuation of the ‘Cultural War’ in Euro-American Societies. Thesis Eleven, 163(1), pp. 43–70. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/072551362110059
• Bar-On, Tamir y Escobedo, Luis (2019). FIFA seen from a postcolonial perspective. Soccer and Society 20(1), pp. 39–60. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2016.1267632
• Benavides Rincón, Guillermina y Montes Martínez, Yolanda (2020). Work/family life by 2040: Between a gig economy and traditional roles. Futures, 119, 102544. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2020.102544
• Cerda Dueñas, Carlos (2018). Cooperation in the Midst of Bipolar Turbulence: Mexico and the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance. Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals (120), pp. 195–214. DOI: https://doi.org/10.24241/rcai.2018.120.3.195
• Díaz Domínguez, Alejandro (2020). ¿Votó la ciudadanía religiosa por AMLO en 2018? Un análisis empírico. Política y Gobierno, 27(2), pp. 1-30.
• Estrada-Ruiz, Erika. y Sánchez-Gutiérrez, Arturo (2021). Subnational Democratic Variation: A Comparative Overview of Strengths and Weaknesses of Democracy in Mexican States. Latin American Policy, 12(2), pp. 367–368. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/lamp.12241
• Irazuzta, Ignacio e Ibarra, Idalia (2021). La excepción de la excepción. La gobernanza de la migración en tiempos de pandemia. Estudios Fronterizos, 2021, (22), e068. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21670/ref.2105068
• Lemus-Delgado, D (2022). COVID-19, the Chinese Communist Party, and the Search for Legitimacy in the International Arena. Chinese Journal of Communications, 15(2), pp. 271–283. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17544750.2022.2052131
• López Montiel, Ángel (2021). Chihuahua, between Conflict and Electoral Alternation. Latin American Policy, 12(2), pp. 481–498. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/lamp.12227
• Rangel-Padilla, Mariana. (2021). State-business Relations and Industrial Upgrading in the Digital Era: The Cases of Software and Aerospace Sectors in Mexico (2000–2012). Business and Politics, 23(3), pp. 309-329. DOI: http://10.1017/bap.2020.18
• Encuesta a generación z"
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