Papers/Chapters from Dissertation
“Competitiveness, Commitments, and Courts: The Politics of State-level Judicial Spending in Brazil and Mexico” (pdf)
“Crafting Courts in New Democracies: Electoral Competition and Ideology in Three Mexican States.” (pdf)
Earlier Papers on Judicial Performance in Mexico
“Judicial Politics in the Mexican States: Theoretical and Methodological Foundations” (available from CIDE Working Paper Series)
“The Politics of Subnational Judicial Performance: Judicial Efficiency in 17 Mexican States” (pdf) (data: Stata)
Rule of Law and Democracy
“Estado de derecho y democracia: Temas conceptuales y causales desde una perspectiva comparada.” (“Rule of Law and Demcoracy:
Conceptual and Causal Issues in Comparative Perspective”) (pdf) (in Spanish)
Police Reform
“Detención y uso de la fuerza.” (“Police Detention and Use of Force”) (in Spanish, with Gustavo Fondevila)
(available from CIDE Working Paper Series)
Civil Wars and Armed Conflict
“Peace by Design: Institutional Choices and the Risk of Armed Conflict in Democracies.” (pdf)