ABSTRACT A growing literature examines democratic backsliding, but there is little
consensus on when, where, and why it occurs. Reviewing more than 100 recent articles and …

Many governments target leaders of violent groups, but consequences of this strategy are
unclear. Additionally, most studies examine political groups such as terrorists, ignoring …

This article offers the first comprehensive analysis of the outcomes of third-wave democratic
transitions. It charts where democracy broke down, stagnated, advanced, and eroded, and it …

Organized crime-related violence has important electoral consequences. Analyses of
aggregate panel data on Mexican elections and an original postelectoral survey conducted …

Epigraph: Interview by the authors, December 12, 2011. This journalist covered Nuevo
Laredo, Tamaulipas, and like many we interviewed, he longed for the day he would be able …

Research on journalists working in contexts of risk has examined either war correspondents
on temporary assignments or the psychological effects of covering traumatic events, usually …

Imaginémonos que México estuviera gobernado por una dictadura que haya asesinado a
cien mil personas en los últimos tres lustros. Por un régimen que torturara, secuestrara y …

Money is essential to the functioning of electoral politics, yet regulating its appropriate use
raises complex and controversial challenges in countries around the world. Both long …

RECIPROCITY, the two-sided social norm of fairness that involves a duty to return favors, as
well as the permission to return injuries, is widely recognized as a fundamental norm “not …

While Mexico is widely considered as an example of consolidated statehood, the deepening
of drug-related violence and insecurity has corroborated the existence and expansion of …