Organized by the NGO Argentina Debate, the first Argentinian presidential de-bate was held on October the 4th, 2015. The incumbent, Daniel Scioli, had announced he would skip this debate the week before: an unexpected resolution. An empty chair was left where his place would have been. Exactly three years later, on October the 4th, 2018, the last d...
The paper revises the performance of independent presidential candidacies during the 2018 Mexican elections. Firstly, the article pays attention to the formal requirements needed to be fulfilled for the registration of a potential candidacy to the presidency, and to the strategies of mass mobilization and economic resources used to obtain them as w...
A experts´ panel composed of twenty-three researchers and consultants analyses the main changes that the next decade will bring to political communication. The future trends that the participants focus on range from deepening the use of Big Data and artificial intelligence to the ephemeral nature of messages, the transformation of electoral brands ...
En este artículo reflexionamos sobre el papel de las encuestas electorales en el marco de las campañas electorales y sus efectos sobre el electorado, distinguiendo entre efectos sobre la participación y efectos sobre la dirección del voto. También reflexionamos sobre la importancia de la ética periodística en la publicación de sondeos electorales e...
The Argentine electoral calendar began early this year with provincial and municipal elections. But the elections of the most important electoral districts in terms of votes and strategic weight have to be defined yet . These elections are becoming increasingly competitive and polarized. And it is not that the Argentine party system has been streng...
It is common to find in many democratic countries more and more citizens away from politics, with distrust in institutions and even delegitimizing the political system. There are several factors that may determine this political disaffection, which makes present through manifestations of cynicism, apathy and skepticism. Among them, the possible inf...
Resumen: La pregunta central de esta investigación es conocer si las y los candidatos a las alcaldías de la Ciudad de México, propusieron una agenda género en sus campañas. Para eso se realizó trabajo etnográfico durante el proceso electoral de 2017-2018; se revisaron plataformas electorales de los partidos políticos; se identificaron las propuesta...
The central question of this investigation is if both female and male candidates for Mexico City’s city halls proposed a gender agenda on their campaigns. To achieve this, an ethnographical work was made during the 2017-2018 electoral process; political parties’ election platforms were revised; the campaign’s proposals concerned with gender issues ...
Resumen En las elecciones del año 2015 el PRD perdió el predominio que ostentaba en la Ciudad de México. Este fenómeno se explica a partir del concepto de polivalencia electoral, el cual hace referencia a los factores de mayor importancia que determinan los resultados electorales. En este artículo sostenemos que la ineficaz acción de gobierno, las ...
