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Dictatorships are not like before. The military and one-party regimes are disappearing and, today, most autocrats organized multiparty elections. Andreas Schedler calls these electoral authoritarian regimes: authoritarianism practice behind the institutional facades of representative democracy, multi-party elections held in violation of democratic principles in a systematic and profound way. Obviously, this type of Mexican regime is not strange. We live for decades of post-revolutionary government. Adapted from the source document.

Historically, the theories developed within comparative politics have focused on the assessment of the institutions more than the study of the behavior of citizens. However, recent decades have seen a significant increase in the number of studies that seek to understand the political behavior of people in different contexts. These research agendas have benefited from technological advances as well as the academic exchange that has occurred between various regions of the world. First, technological advances facilitate the study of opinions and behavior through tools such as the internet. Second, the academic exchange of students to countries which have a knowledge of methods of measuring public opinion has made progress these professionals to return to their home countries develop companies that can carry out academic studies of opinion and political behavior. Adapted from the source document.

Although studies on coalition politics is one of the most fertile fields on comparative politics in the last few decades, this assertion fits only for studies on parliamentary democracies. Indeed, following the debate on presidentialism vs. parliamentarism, coalition governments were mostly under studied on presidential regimes, being largely considered as "accidental". The very few works on this topics use to limit their investigations on the ministerial portfolio sharing or on the dissolution of such governments. This work proposes to update the coalition theories, by studying closely the Latin American presidentialisms. We will concentrate our analysis on the Southern Cone and demonstrate that far from being accidental, this coalition use to have huge repercussions on the governance process and fulfilled profound realignments on party systems. Adapted from the source document.

Examines the relationship between the fields of international relations and comparative politics; case study of the sources of state motivations and preferences as explanatory variables of state actions, especially cooperation and conflict.