Alberto Simpser

ITAM

Professor

Rio Hondo 1

Mexico City, CDMX 01080

Mexico

http://www.albertosimpser.com

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Constitutions in Authoritarian Regimes

Pp. 1-20 in Constitutions in Authoritarian Regimes, edited by Tom Ginsburg and Alberto Simpser (Cambridge University Press, 2014), U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 468
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 24 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2014
Tom Ginsburg and Alberto Simpser
University of Chicago Law School and ITAM
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The Culture of Corruption across Generations: An Empirical Study of Bribery Attitudes and Behavior

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 29 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 06 Sep 2017
Alberto Simpser
ITAM
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Corruption, bribery, culture, intergenerational transmission, norms, attitudes

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Dead But Not Gone: Contemporary Legacies of Communism, Imperialism, and Authoritarianism

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Dead But Not Gone: Contemporary Legacies of Communism, Imperialism, and Authoritarianism

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 28 Jun 2017
Alberto Simpser, Dan Slater and Jason Wittenberg
ITAM, University of Chicago and University of California, Berkeley - Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science
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Historical legacies, comparative historical analysis, political economy, cognitions, coalitions, institutions

Dead But Not Gone: Contemporary Legacies of Communism, Imperialism, and Authoritarianism

Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 21, pp. 419-439, 2018
Posted: 17 Jun 2018
Alberto Simpser, Dan Slater and Jason Wittenberg
ITAM, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and University of California, Berkeley - Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science

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When Do Sensitive Survey Questions Elicit Truthful Answers? Theory and Evidence with Application to the RRT and the List Experiment

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 07 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2017
Alberto Simpser
ITAM
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survey research, social desirability bias, under-reporting, list experiment, randomized response technique, second-order beliefs

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Electoral Manipulation as Bureaucratic Control

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 19 May 2013 Last Revised: 19 Nov 2013
Scott Gehlbach and Alberto Simpser
University of Chicago and ITAM
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electoral manipulation, bureaucracy

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Clientelismo Electoral y Compra del Voto en México CClientelism and Vote Buying in Mexico)

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 12 Sep 2017
Alberto Simpser
ITAM
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Clientelism, vote buying, Mexico

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Does Electoral Manipulation Discourage Voter Turnout? Evidence from Mexico

Journal of Politics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 28 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 20 Jul 2014
Alberto Simpser
ITAM
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Voter Turnout, Electoral Manipulation, Election Fraud, Mexico, PRI

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Online Political Information, Electoral Saturation, and Electoral Accountability in Mexico

Number of pages: 92 Posted: 04 Aug 2021
José Ramón Enríquez, Horacio Larreguy, John Marshall and Alberto Simpser
Harvard University, ITAM, Columbia University - Department of Political Science and ITAM
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Accountability, corruption, social spillovers, saturation, media campaigns

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Can International Election Monitoring Harm Governance?

Journal of Politics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 30 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 20 Jul 2014
Alberto Simpser and Daniela Donno
ITAM and University of Pittsburgh - Department of Political Science
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Elections, International Election Monitoring, Electoral Manipulation, Governance

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Circles of Trust: A Proposal for Better Migrant Screening

University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 817
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 10 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 06 Sep 2017
Tom Ginsburg and Alberto Simpser
University of Chicago Law School and ITAM
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immigration, refugees, guest workers

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Interacting as Equals: How Contact Can Promote Tolerance Among Opposing Partisans

Number of pages: 99 Posted: 25 May 2023
Kenneth Greene, Erin Rossiter, Enrique Seira and Alberto Simpser
University of Texas at Austin, University of Notre Dame, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) - Centro de Investigacion Economica and ITAM
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affective polarization, equal status, prejudice reduction, intergroup contact, contact hypothesis

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The Quality of Vote Tallies: Causes and Consequences

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 29 Jul 2019
Cristian Challú, Enrique Seira and Alberto Simpser
ITAM, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) - Centro de Investigacion Economica and ITAM
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elections, vote counting, vote tallies, mistakes, recounts, democracy

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Corruption, Norms, and the Law

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 01 May 2024
Alberto Simpser
ITAM
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Corruption, Dishonesty, Social norms, Moral norms, Informal norms, Formal institutions, Law

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Climate of Opinion as a Driver of Collective Action: Evidence From the 2011 Israeli Social Protest Movement

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 29 Jul 2019
Yossi David, Jacob Shamir and Alberto Simpser
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and ITAM
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mass mobilization, protests, public opinion, climate of opinion, collective action, Israel social justice movement

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Voting with One's Neighbors: Evidence from Migration within Mexico

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 18 Feb 2021
Frederico Finan, Enrique Seira and Alberto Simpser
University of California, Berkeley, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) - Centro de Investigacion Economica and ITAM
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neighborhoods, peer effects, voter registration, voting in developing countries, turnout

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Confounding, Spillovers and Interactions Influence Estimates of Social Distancing Policy Effects

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 04 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 23 May 2023
José Ramón Enríquez, Horacio Larreguy and Alberto Simpser
Harvard University, ITAM and ITAM
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Social distancing, policy design, spillovers, confounding, interactions