Sergio Béjar
Biographic Data
| ID | 3845995 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sergio Béjar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sergio |
| FAMILY NAME | Béjar |
| SIGNATURE | BEJAR S |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Jose State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9352-3892 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
On the Front Line of Violence
The profile of migrants seeking to cross the southwest U.S. border has changed dramatically. Women currently represent approximately one third of border apprehensions at the southwest border, and many are fleeing pervasive violence and insecurity in Northern Central America. To understand these changing migration patterns, we rely upon survey data to examine the lives of women from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras who have been victims of cri…
Determinants of Affective Polarization in Mexico's 2018 Presidential Election
Research on the determinants of affective polarization in Western democracies has blossomed in the past decade. But recent empirical and anecdotal evidence suggests that such phenomenon is not exclusive of advanced democracies as parties and candidates often appeal to voters on emotional or affective grounds, increasing levels of affective polarization in developing democracies as well. Yet, studies that analyze the causes of the aforementioned p…
Domestic Financial Intermediaries, Dictatorship, and Social Spending
Evacuation of Refugees from Afghanistan
Following the announcement of the retreat of troops from Afghanistan, the Spanish Government organised the so-called "Antigone Operation" for the evacuation of Afghan collaborators. The most relevant ministries were involved in the response. The Ministry of Health, through the Foreign Health Department, performed the health control on arrival. The whole operation was conducted at an air base. It included the health control of refugees composed of…
Electoral volatility and political polarization in developing democracies
What explains political polarization across developing democracies? In contrast to extant studies, this article develops a novel argument that links electoral (in)stability at the party system level with varying levels of polarization. Specifically, we claim that increasing levels of electoral volatility generate high levels of uncertainty among partisan elites, which respond by setting clear policy positions that are frequently far away from the…
The International Monetary Fund, Party System Institutionalization, and Protest in Latin America
Extant studies have documented a positive correlation between country participation in International Monetary Fund-sponsored programs and collective protests in Latin America. However, anecdotal evidence indicates that there is a great deal of variation in the number of protests in recipient countries across the region. This article provides a theoretical argument that explains how the fund interacts with the level of party system institutionaliz…
Electoral Particularism, Bank Concentration, and Capital Account Liberalization in Developing Democracies
Extant research suggests that democracy fosters capital account liberalization in developing countries. Yet the data reveal that there exists substantial variation in the extent of capital account openness across democracies in the developing world. When do democratic governments in developing states liberalize their capital account policies? We hypothesize that the market concentration of domestic private banks has a positive effect on capital a…
Candidate-centred systems, public banks and equity market restrictions in developing democracies
The pace of financial globalization across the developing world grew rapidly after developing country governments started reducing restrictions on foreign ownership of domestic equities. Studies suggest that the emergence of democracy in developing states played a critical role in facilitating the reduction of controls on foreign investment in domestic equities. Yet, the data reveals that although some developing country democracies have curtaile…
Participation in IMF-sponsored economic programs and contentious collective action in Latin America, 1980–2007
This paper investigates the relationship between International Monetary Fund (IMF)-sponsored economic programs and contentious collective action in Latin America from 1980 to 2007, hypothesizing a positive relationship between participation in IMF programs and the likelihood of social protest. Specifically, we suggest that people in recipient countries protest the unpopular IMF mandates not only because of the negative effects that orthodox econo…
Electoral institutions and growth volatility
What accounts for the substantial variation in the temporal volatility of economic growth rates in democratic regimes? We claim that institutional differences between the majoritarian and proportional representation (PR) electoral systems explain why growth volatility is high in some democracies, but not others. Specifically, we suggest that unlike PR democracies, the pronounced career concerns of policymakers in majoritarian systems give them in…
Participation in IMF-sponsored economic programs and contentious collective action in Latin America, 1980–2007
This paper investigates the relationship between International Monetary Fund (IMF)-sponsored economic programs and contentious collective action in Latin America from 1980 to 2007, hypothesizing a positive relationship between participation in IMF programs and the likelihood of social protest. Specifically, we suggest that people in recipient countries protest the unpopular IMF mandates not only because of the negative effects that orthodox econo…
Electoral volatility and political polarization in developing democracies
What explains political polarization across developing democracies? In contrast to extant studies, this article develops a novel argument that links electoral (in)stability at the party system level with varying levels of polarization. Specifically, we claim that increasing levels of electoral volatility generate high levels of uncertainty among partisan elites, which respond by setting clear policy positions that are frequently far away from the…
Electoral Particularism, Bank Concentration, and Capital Account Liberalization in Developing Democracies
Extant research suggests that democracy fosters capital account liberalization in developing countries. Yet the data reveal that there exists substantial variation in the extent of capital account openness across democracies in the developing world. When do democratic governments in developing states liberalize their capital account policies? We hypothesize that the market concentration of domestic private banks has a positive effect on capital a…
The International Monetary Fund, Party System Institutionalization, and Protest in Latin America
Extant studies have documented a positive correlation between country participation in International Monetary Fund-sponsored programs and collective protests in Latin America. However, anecdotal evidence indicates that there is a great deal of variation in the number of protests in recipient countries across the region. This article provides a theoretical argument that explains how the fund interacts with the level of party system institutionaliz…
Candidate-centred systems, public banks and equity market restrictions in developing democracies
The pace of financial globalization across the developing world grew rapidly after developing country governments started reducing restrictions on foreign ownership of domestic equities. Studies suggest that the emergence of democracy in developing states played a critical role in facilitating the reduction of controls on foreign investment in domestic equities. Yet, the data reveals that although some developing country democracies have curtaile…
Electoral institutions and growth volatility
What accounts for the substantial variation in the temporal volatility of economic growth rates in democratic regimes? We claim that institutional differences between the majoritarian and proportional representation (PR) electoral systems explain why growth volatility is high in some democracies, but not others. Specifically, we suggest that unlike PR democracies, the pronounced career concerns of policymakers in majoritarian systems give them in…
Electoral institutions and growth volatility
What accounts for the substantial variation in the temporal volatility of economic growth rates in democratic regimes? We claim that institutional differences between the majoritarian and proportional representation (PR) electoral systems explain why growth volatility is high in some democracies, but not others. Specifically, we suggest that unlike PR democracies, the pronounced career concerns of policymakers in majoritarian systems give them in…
Candidate-centred systems, public banks and equity market restrictions in developing democracies
The pace of financial globalization across the developing world grew rapidly after developing country governments started reducing restrictions on foreign ownership of domestic equities. Studies suggest that the emergence of democracy in developing states played a critical role in facilitating the reduction of controls on foreign investment in domestic equities. Yet, the data reveals that although some developing country democracies have curtaile…
Participation in IMF-sponsored economic programs and contentious collective action in Latin America, 1980–2007
This paper investigates the relationship between International Monetary Fund (IMF)-sponsored economic programs and contentious collective action in Latin America from 1980 to 2007, hypothesizing a positive relationship between participation in IMF programs and the likelihood of social protest. Specifically, we suggest that people in recipient countries protest the unpopular IMF mandates not only because of the negative effects that orthodox econo…
Electoral Particularism, Bank Concentration, and Capital Account Liberalization in Developing Democracies
Extant research suggests that democracy fosters capital account liberalization in developing countries. Yet the data reveal that there exists substantial variation in the extent of capital account openness across democracies in the developing world. When do democratic governments in developing states liberalize their capital account policies? We hypothesize that the market concentration of domestic private banks has a positive effect on capital a…
The International Monetary Fund, Party System Institutionalization, and Protest in Latin America
Extant studies have documented a positive correlation between country participation in International Monetary Fund-sponsored programs and collective protests in Latin America. However, anecdotal evidence indicates that there is a great deal of variation in the number of protests in recipient countries across the region. This article provides a theoretical argument that explains how the fund interacts with the level of party system institutionaliz…
Evacuation of Refugees from Afghanistan
Following the announcement of the retreat of troops from Afghanistan, the Spanish Government organised the so-called "Antigone Operation" for the evacuation of Afghan collaborators. The most relevant ministries were involved in the response. The Ministry of Health, through the Foreign Health Department, performed the health control on arrival. The whole operation was conducted at an air base. It included the health control of refugees composed of…
Electoral volatility and political polarization in developing democracies
What explains political polarization across developing democracies? In contrast to extant studies, this article develops a novel argument that links electoral (in)stability at the party system level with varying levels of polarization. Specifically, we claim that increasing levels of electoral volatility generate high levels of uncertainty among partisan elites, which respond by setting clear policy positions that are frequently far away from the…
Determinants of Affective Polarization in Mexico's 2018 Presidential Election
Research on the determinants of affective polarization in Western democracies has blossomed in the past decade. But recent empirical and anecdotal evidence suggests that such phenomenon is not exclusive of advanced democracies as parties and candidates often appeal to voters on emotional or affective grounds, increasing levels of affective polarization in developing democracies as well. Yet, studies that analyze the causes of the aforementioned p…
Domestic Financial Intermediaries, Dictatorship, and Social Spending
On the Front Line of Violence
The profile of migrants seeking to cross the southwest U.S. border has changed dramatically. Women currently represent approximately one third of border apprehensions at the southwest border, and many are fleeing pervasive violence and insecurity in Northern Central America. To understand these changing migration patterns, we rely upon survey data to examine the lives of women from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras who have been victims of cri…
Political science (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Democracy (3 works) · Extant taxon (3 works) · Finance (3 works) · Incentive (3 works) · Latin Americans (3 works)