Sebastián Garrido de Sierrra

Sebastián Garrido de Sierrra
Center for Research and Teaching in Economics · DEP - LNPP

Doctor of Philosophy

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The chapter evaluates the relations between substantive, descriptive, and symbolic representation in the Mexican states’ Congresses from 2014 to 2021. Once women gain access to office, political representation aims to ensure that public decisions reflect, to some extent, the interests of the represented group. The research explores what factors all...
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The process of the legal construction of gender parity in Mexican states has been complex, with advances and setbacks, due to partisan resistance. This process has required “gender-friendly coalitions” made up of female parties’ members, feminists, women’s organizations, and electoral authorities to overcome the barriers to effective implementation...
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Women’s political representation has varied from state to state and overtime in recent decades. This chapter explores the factors that explain the different levels of women’s descriptive representation in subnational Congresses, seeking to answer why some states have had more women legislators than others. From the construction of an original datab...
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Women’s access to seats has reduced the gender gap by more than 38.5 percentage points in Mexican state Congresses from 1987 to 2019. To what extent has this increase allowed more women to access legislative decision-making bodies or generated institutions that are friendlier to women’s leadership? How have power relations and hierarchies within le...
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This chapter addresses the theoretical and conceptual discussion on political representation and its vital role in the functioning of democracies. The central objective is to present the theoretical, conceptual, and methodological toolbox for studying women’s political representation, its four dimensions, and their relationships. With these element...
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¿Por qué unos países tienden a reformar sus reglas electorales más que otros? ¿Cuáles son las razones que inciden en el nivel de activismo reformista de los países latinoamericanos? ¿Qué significa que unos países hayan cambiado sus reglas de juego de manera intensiva mientras otros casi no han hecho reformas? En diversas investigaciones previas (Fr...
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In recent decades, Mexico has introduced increasingly strict electoral rules regarding the gender electoral regime, while the descriptive representation of women has been increasing. This article analyzes empirically the relationship between the strength of the gender electoral regime and the descriptive representation of women in local congresses...
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This research studies the link between universities and the federal bureaucratic elite in Mexico. Using a new database of the higher education of 1,448 public servants who filled a high position in the federal bureaucracy between 1970 and 2014, I analyze the academic training of these workers, and the place and discipline(s) they studied. The resul...

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