Ana Isabel López García
Biographic Data
| ID | 789352 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ana Isabel López García |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ana Isabel López |
| FAMILY NAME | García |
| SIGNATURE | GARCÍA A I L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maastricht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8294-363X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Migrant remittances and the decline of presidential term limits in sub-Saharan Africa
This paper examines how remittance dependence relates to public support for the abolition of presidential term limits in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), a region where electoral turnovers are rare and incumbents often manipulate restrictions on the permitted length of stay in office to prolong their rule. It is theorized that citizens who depend heavily on migrant remittances are more likely to support the removal of said limits. This preference is dri…
Citizens' aid preferences amid state collapse: Experimental evidence from Haiti
Motivation Citizens' preferences signal which intermediaries they view as legitimate, trustworthy, and responsive, as well as capable of guiding donor decisions about aid‐delivery channels. However, little is known about these preferences in extremely fragile environments, where aid is both the most urgently needed and the most difficult to deliver. Purpose This study examines whom citizens believe should deliver reconstruction and relief aid in …
Taxing the wealthy in Haiti: Evidence from a conjoint experiment on property tax preferences
Restoring trust in Mexico’s police: Do Officer Gender and Work Experience Matter
How can public confidence in the police be restored in high-crime environments? What type of police officers would citizens in violent democracies see as trusted? This paper examines how the gender and the occupational background of police officers affect citizens’ perceptions of effectiveness and misconduct of the local police. The focus is on Mexico, a country where military officers have taken over policing functions. Using an online survey ex…
When Governments Deliver: Migrant Remittances and the Willingness to Pay Higher Local Taxes
This article deviates from prior research which considers only national-level and formal taxes when examining tax attitudes and behaviours in migrant-sending countries. It investigates the relationship between the receipt of remittances and 'conditional tax compliance', and how it varies between the local and the national levels. The article posits that remittance recipients are willing to pay higher taxes at the local level in exchange for bette…
Classrooms or Crackdowns? How Violence Affects Security Policy Preferences in Mexico
Penal policies have been the primary strategy of Latin American governments to combat crime, but preventative social policies such as youth education programmes may be more effective solutions. Penal and social policies are often treated as a trade-off by governments, who expect citizens—especially victims of violence—to be more supportive of punitive solutions. Using an original online survey experiment conducted in 2021 in Mexico, we challenge …
Migrant money and political unrest: Remittances and support for protest in Latin America and the Caribbean
How does receiving remittances from abroad influence support for protest participation in origin democracies? Drawing on survey data from Latin America and the Caribbean, a region where social discontent quickly escalates and takes disruptive forms, it is found that remittance recipients do not vary from non‐recipients in their support for peaceful and legal modes of protest. However, compared to non‐recipients, those receiving remittances are mo…
Emigration, Social Remittances and Fiscal Policy Preferences: Experimental Evidence From Mexico
How does emigration affect tax preferences in migrant-sending countries? Experiencing public services in a high tax-capacity destination may reduce support for tax increases by throwing fiscal failure at home into stark relief (the socialization hypothesis). Alternatively, migrants’ exclusion from certain public services may increase desire to fund these services in migrant origin countries (the exclusion hypothesis). We test these competing hypo…
Frontline corruption and emigration in the Western Balkans’
How does frontline corruption influence individuals’ decisions to emigrate? Existing research has found that perceptions of grand political corruption promote emigration, particularly among the highly educated. In this article, we shift the focus to the role of frontline corruption in driving emigration decisions and distinguish between the effects of the payment of bribes to frontline bureaucrats and those of nepotism in public employment. Using…
Migrants’ Remittances, the Fiscal Contract and Tax Attitudes in Africa and Latin America
How does the receipt of remittances shape recipients’ attitudes towards taxation? We argue that remittances are likely to reduce support for the fiscal contract of taxes in exchange for public services because recipients rely less on the national economy and the state for their well-being. Remittance recipients can use the money sent by friends or family overseas to obtain public services in the private market instead of, or in addition to, tax-f…
Preventing Violence by Teachers in Primary Schools: Study Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial in Haiti
CONTEXT: Although teacher violence at schools is a serious problem in Haiti, there is a lack of systematic evidence on the effectiveness of school-based interventions in reducing teacher violence in this low-income country. OBJECTIVE: aiming to reduce teachers' use of violent disciplinary strategies and to improve their interaction competences with children in the Haitian context. DESIGN SETTING PARTICIPANTS: The study is designed as a two-arm ma…
Migrant Remittances and Violent Responses to Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean
High levels of crime are a key driver of emigration from Latin America and the Caribbean. But can emigration change public opinion about how best to respond to crime? Focusing on the political economy of remittances—the money migrants send to their families and communities—this study argues that emigration can increase support for violent responses to crime. Migrants’ families often spend remittances on investment goods, which makes them more vul…
Remittances, criminal violence and voter turnout
How do financial remittances influence electoral participation in violent democracies? Previous work has focused on the 'substitution effect'; if recipients depend on remittances for welfare rather than the state, they become disengaged from formal political processes and less likely to vote in elections. However, while remittances can be used to substitute for state provision of welfare goods, they cannot fully substitute for public security. In…
Crime, remittances, and presidential approval in Mexico
Previous work on remittances and incumbency support has focused on recipients’ (pocketbook and sociotropic) economic assessments. In Mexico, however, crime has become the second (if not the first) concern of voters and security evaluations have become closely linked to the national executive’s performance. In this paper we posit that in Mexico remittances can also increase incumbent support through their effect on recipients’ security assessments…
The 3×1 Programme and criminal violence in Mexico
Are levels of criminal violence lower where emigrants collaborate with the state authorities in the funding and provision of public goods and services? In this article, I examine the causal effect on violence levels in the municipalities participating in Mexico's Three-for-One (3×1) Programme for Migrants. Using municipal-level data for the period between 2001 and 2010, the analysis shows that the implementation of this programme led to an increa…
Adaptive Strategies during Times of Conflict and Transformation: Copiapó Valley under the Spanish Conquest in the Sixteenth Century
This article explores the changes and adaptation of warfare strategies in indigenous societies during the Spanish conquest, through a case study of Copiapó valley in northern Chile. Using ethnohistorical and archaeological data, it explores the experiences and actions of collective agents who transformed their warfare practices and social alliances in order to fight for their autonomy and survival. The Copiapó people transformed from a society ch…
International remittances, cash transfer assistance and voter turnout in Mexico
Most research on the political consequences of international migration conceptualizes financial remittances as being a substitute for state-provided assistance. This paper tests the actual validity of this assumption. Using data from the 2012-2016 Americas Barometer, the analysis confirms previous findings on the negative impact of financial remittances on electoral turnout intentions. However it reveals that this effect does not vary according t…
Perspectivas críticas sobre os BRICS
Economic remittances, temporary migration and voter turnout in Mexico
Mexico is one of the largest recipients of international remittances in the world. Although there is increasing evidence of return migration in the country, little is known about the ways in which the impact of remittances on voter turnout differs according to temporary (circular) and permanent forms of migration. This paper aims to contribute to the literature by examining the interactive effect between remittances and return migration. Using a …
After Regime Change: Corporatist Organisations and Political Parties in Mexico
This paper illustrates the divergent party alliances established by former corporatist organisations to influence policymaking after the demise of one-party rule in Mexico. Using a Most Similar Systems Design, the analysis suggests that variations in outcome owe to: a) the extent to which the organisation was relevant for advancing and implementing the agenda of the new presidential party and b) the ability of the organisation in question's leade…
Comunidades mineras prehispánicas de pequeña escala y sus ventajas económicas y logísticas derivadas de su conectividad con el Qhapaq Ñan, desierto de Atacama, norte de Chile
The construction and imposition of the Inca road infrastructure in the Atacama Desert incorporated new territories and subjects to the empire, but could not generate full control over the economy of mining communities present in it. This article examines how the Qhapaq Ñan influenced pre - existing mining activities dedicated to lapidary and pigments, acting as an unexpected growth factor. In this case, pre-hispanic small - scale miners relocated…
Legislative Coalition Size and Antigovernment Protests in Latin America
This work examines whether the size, as well as the composition, of legislative coalitions is an additional factor that affects the incidence of protests against national governments in Latin America. Based on aggregate data for 18 democracies from 1980 to 2014, the analysis reveals that the relationship between the size of legislative coalitions in the lower house of national assemblies and the odds of antigovernment protests is U-shaped. Specif…
Imperial Expansion and Local Agency: A Case Study of Labor Organization Under Inca Rule
Imperial expansion can produce broad economic intensification throughout the provinces to provide key economic resources for the state. However, not all such economic intensification is the direct result of the imposition of an imperial political economy over subject populations. This article presents evidence for some cases where intensification occurred due to bottom-up responses of small groups that were able to profit from imperial conquest. …
Popular Movements in Autocracies Religion, Repression, and Indigenous Collective Action in Mexico ‐ by Trejo, Guillermo
Trejo, Guillermo (2012) Popular Movements in Autocracies Religion, Repression, and Indigenous Collective Action in Mexico, Cambridge University Press ( New York, NY), xix + 307 pp. $99.00 hbk. Why, after centuries of segregation and marginalisation, have the indigenous peoples of Latin America only recently mobilised themselves to demand their rights? This question has attracted much scholarly attention over the past decades, the majority of work…
Imperial Expansion and Local Agency: A Case Study of Labor Organization Under Inca Rule
Imperial expansion can produce broad economic intensification throughout the provinces to provide key economic resources for the state. However, not all such economic intensification is the direct result of the imposition of an imperial political economy over subject populations. This article presents evidence for some cases where intensification occurred due to bottom-up responses of small groups that were able to profit from imperial conquest. …
Remittances, criminal violence and voter turnout
How do financial remittances influence electoral participation in violent democracies? Previous work has focused on the 'substitution effect'; if recipients depend on remittances for welfare rather than the state, they become disengaged from formal political processes and less likely to vote in elections. However, while remittances can be used to substitute for state provision of welfare goods, they cannot fully substitute for public security. In…
Economic remittances, temporary migration and voter turnout in Mexico
Mexico is one of the largest recipients of international remittances in the world. Although there is increasing evidence of return migration in the country, little is known about the ways in which the impact of remittances on voter turnout differs according to temporary (circular) and permanent forms of migration. This paper aims to contribute to the literature by examining the interactive effect between remittances and return migration. Using a …
Migrants’ Remittances, the Fiscal Contract and Tax Attitudes in Africa and Latin America
How does the receipt of remittances shape recipients’ attitudes towards taxation? We argue that remittances are likely to reduce support for the fiscal contract of taxes in exchange for public services because recipients rely less on the national economy and the state for their well-being. Remittance recipients can use the money sent by friends or family overseas to obtain public services in the private market instead of, or in addition to, tax-f…
International remittances, cash transfer assistance and voter turnout in Mexico
Most research on the political consequences of international migration conceptualizes financial remittances as being a substitute for state-provided assistance. This paper tests the actual validity of this assumption. Using data from the 2012-2016 Americas Barometer, the analysis confirms previous findings on the negative impact of financial remittances on electoral turnout intentions. However it reveals that this effect does not vary according t…
Crime, remittances, and presidential approval in Mexico
Previous work on remittances and incumbency support has focused on recipients’ (pocketbook and sociotropic) economic assessments. In Mexico, however, crime has become the second (if not the first) concern of voters and security evaluations have become closely linked to the national executive’s performance. In this paper we posit that in Mexico remittances can also increase incumbent support through their effect on recipients’ security assessments…
Adaptive Strategies during Times of Conflict and Transformation: Copiapó Valley under the Spanish Conquest in the Sixteenth Century
This article explores the changes and adaptation of warfare strategies in indigenous societies during the Spanish conquest, through a case study of Copiapó valley in northern Chile. Using ethnohistorical and archaeological data, it explores the experiences and actions of collective agents who transformed their warfare practices and social alliances in order to fight for their autonomy and survival. The Copiapó people transformed from a society ch…
Emigration, Social Remittances and Fiscal Policy Preferences: Experimental Evidence From Mexico
How does emigration affect tax preferences in migrant-sending countries? Experiencing public services in a high tax-capacity destination may reduce support for tax increases by throwing fiscal failure at home into stark relief (the socialization hypothesis). Alternatively, migrants’ exclusion from certain public services may increase desire to fund these services in migrant origin countries (the exclusion hypothesis). We test these competing hypo…
Migrant Remittances and Violent Responses to Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean
High levels of crime are a key driver of emigration from Latin America and the Caribbean. But can emigration change public opinion about how best to respond to crime? Focusing on the political economy of remittances—the money migrants send to their families and communities—this study argues that emigration can increase support for violent responses to crime. Migrants’ families often spend remittances on investment goods, which makes them more vul…
The 3×1 Programme and criminal violence in Mexico
Are levels of criminal violence lower where emigrants collaborate with the state authorities in the funding and provision of public goods and services? In this article, I examine the causal effect on violence levels in the municipalities participating in Mexico's Three-for-One (3×1) Programme for Migrants. Using municipal-level data for the period between 2001 and 2010, the analysis shows that the implementation of this programme led to an increa…
Comunidades mineras prehispánicas de pequeña escala y sus ventajas económicas y logísticas derivadas de su conectividad con el Qhapaq Ñan, desierto de Atacama, norte de Chile
The construction and imposition of the Inca road infrastructure in the Atacama Desert incorporated new territories and subjects to the empire, but could not generate full control over the economy of mining communities present in it. This article examines how the Qhapaq Ñan influenced pre - existing mining activities dedicated to lapidary and pigments, acting as an unexpected growth factor. In this case, pre-hispanic small - scale miners relocated…
Legislative Coalition Size and Antigovernment Protests in Latin America
This work examines whether the size, as well as the composition, of legislative coalitions is an additional factor that affects the incidence of protests against national governments in Latin America. Based on aggregate data for 18 democracies from 1980 to 2014, the analysis reveals that the relationship between the size of legislative coalitions in the lower house of national assemblies and the odds of antigovernment protests is U-shaped. Specif…
Restoring trust in Mexico’s police: Do Officer Gender and Work Experience Matter
How can public confidence in the police be restored in high-crime environments? What type of police officers would citizens in violent democracies see as trusted? This paper examines how the gender and the occupational background of police officers affect citizens’ perceptions of effectiveness and misconduct of the local police. The focus is on Mexico, a country where military officers have taken over policing functions. Using an online survey ex…
Popular Movements in Autocracies Religion, Repression, and Indigenous Collective Action in Mexico ‐ by Trejo, Guillermo
Trejo, Guillermo (2012) Popular Movements in Autocracies Religion, Repression, and Indigenous Collective Action in Mexico, Cambridge University Press ( New York, NY), xix + 307 pp. $99.00 hbk. Why, after centuries of segregation and marginalisation, have the indigenous peoples of Latin America only recently mobilised themselves to demand their rights? This question has attracted much scholarly attention over the past decades, the majority of work…
Economic remittances, temporary migration and voter turnout in Mexico
Mexico is one of the largest recipients of international remittances in the world. Although there is increasing evidence of return migration in the country, little is known about the ways in which the impact of remittances on voter turnout differs according to temporary (circular) and permanent forms of migration. This paper aims to contribute to the literature by examining the interactive effect between remittances and return migration. Using a …
After Regime Change: Corporatist Organisations and Political Parties in Mexico
This paper illustrates the divergent party alliances established by former corporatist organisations to influence policymaking after the demise of one-party rule in Mexico. Using a Most Similar Systems Design, the analysis suggests that variations in outcome owe to: a) the extent to which the organisation was relevant for advancing and implementing the agenda of the new presidential party and b) the ability of the organisation in question's leade…
Comunidades mineras prehispánicas de pequeña escala y sus ventajas económicas y logísticas derivadas de su conectividad con el Qhapaq Ñan, desierto de Atacama, norte de Chile
The construction and imposition of the Inca road infrastructure in the Atacama Desert incorporated new territories and subjects to the empire, but could not generate full control over the economy of mining communities present in it. This article examines how the Qhapaq Ñan influenced pre - existing mining activities dedicated to lapidary and pigments, acting as an unexpected growth factor. In this case, pre-hispanic small - scale miners relocated…
Legislative Coalition Size and Antigovernment Protests in Latin America
This work examines whether the size, as well as the composition, of legislative coalitions is an additional factor that affects the incidence of protests against national governments in Latin America. Based on aggregate data for 18 democracies from 1980 to 2014, the analysis reveals that the relationship between the size of legislative coalitions in the lower house of national assemblies and the odds of antigovernment protests is U-shaped. Specif…
Imperial Expansion and Local Agency: A Case Study of Labor Organization Under Inca Rule
Imperial expansion can produce broad economic intensification throughout the provinces to provide key economic resources for the state. However, not all such economic intensification is the direct result of the imposition of an imperial political economy over subject populations. This article presents evidence for some cases where intensification occurred due to bottom-up responses of small groups that were able to profit from imperial conquest. …
International remittances, cash transfer assistance and voter turnout in Mexico
Most research on the political consequences of international migration conceptualizes financial remittances as being a substitute for state-provided assistance. This paper tests the actual validity of this assumption. Using data from the 2012-2016 Americas Barometer, the analysis confirms previous findings on the negative impact of financial remittances on electoral turnout intentions. However it reveals that this effect does not vary according t…
Perspectivas críticas sobre os BRICS
The 3×1 Programme and criminal violence in Mexico
Are levels of criminal violence lower where emigrants collaborate with the state authorities in the funding and provision of public goods and services? In this article, I examine the causal effect on violence levels in the municipalities participating in Mexico's Three-for-One (3×1) Programme for Migrants. Using municipal-level data for the period between 2001 and 2010, the analysis shows that the implementation of this programme led to an increa…
Adaptive Strategies during Times of Conflict and Transformation: Copiapó Valley under the Spanish Conquest in the Sixteenth Century
This article explores the changes and adaptation of warfare strategies in indigenous societies during the Spanish conquest, through a case study of Copiapó valley in northern Chile. Using ethnohistorical and archaeological data, it explores the experiences and actions of collective agents who transformed their warfare practices and social alliances in order to fight for their autonomy and survival. The Copiapó people transformed from a society ch…
Migrant Remittances and Violent Responses to Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean
High levels of crime are a key driver of emigration from Latin America and the Caribbean. But can emigration change public opinion about how best to respond to crime? Focusing on the political economy of remittances—the money migrants send to their families and communities—this study argues that emigration can increase support for violent responses to crime. Migrants’ families often spend remittances on investment goods, which makes them more vul…
Remittances, criminal violence and voter turnout
How do financial remittances influence electoral participation in violent democracies? Previous work has focused on the 'substitution effect'; if recipients depend on remittances for welfare rather than the state, they become disengaged from formal political processes and less likely to vote in elections. However, while remittances can be used to substitute for state provision of welfare goods, they cannot fully substitute for public security. In…
Crime, remittances, and presidential approval in Mexico
Previous work on remittances and incumbency support has focused on recipients’ (pocketbook and sociotropic) economic assessments. In Mexico, however, crime has become the second (if not the first) concern of voters and security evaluations have become closely linked to the national executive’s performance. In this paper we posit that in Mexico remittances can also increase incumbent support through their effect on recipients’ security assessments…
Preventing Violence by Teachers in Primary Schools: Study Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial in Haiti
CONTEXT: Although teacher violence at schools is a serious problem in Haiti, there is a lack of systematic evidence on the effectiveness of school-based interventions in reducing teacher violence in this low-income country. OBJECTIVE: aiming to reduce teachers' use of violent disciplinary strategies and to improve their interaction competences with children in the Haitian context. DESIGN SETTING PARTICIPANTS: The study is designed as a two-arm ma…
Frontline corruption and emigration in the Western Balkans’
How does frontline corruption influence individuals’ decisions to emigrate? Existing research has found that perceptions of grand political corruption promote emigration, particularly among the highly educated. In this article, we shift the focus to the role of frontline corruption in driving emigration decisions and distinguish between the effects of the payment of bribes to frontline bureaucrats and those of nepotism in public employment. Using…
Migrants’ Remittances, the Fiscal Contract and Tax Attitudes in Africa and Latin America
How does the receipt of remittances shape recipients’ attitudes towards taxation? We argue that remittances are likely to reduce support for the fiscal contract of taxes in exchange for public services because recipients rely less on the national economy and the state for their well-being. Remittance recipients can use the money sent by friends or family overseas to obtain public services in the private market instead of, or in addition to, tax-f…
Classrooms or Crackdowns? How Violence Affects Security Policy Preferences in Mexico
Penal policies have been the primary strategy of Latin American governments to combat crime, but preventative social policies such as youth education programmes may be more effective solutions. Penal and social policies are often treated as a trade-off by governments, who expect citizens—especially victims of violence—to be more supportive of punitive solutions. Using an original online survey experiment conducted in 2021 in Mexico, we challenge …
Migrant money and political unrest: Remittances and support for protest in Latin America and the Caribbean
How does receiving remittances from abroad influence support for protest participation in origin democracies? Drawing on survey data from Latin America and the Caribbean, a region where social discontent quickly escalates and takes disruptive forms, it is found that remittance recipients do not vary from non‐recipients in their support for peaceful and legal modes of protest. However, compared to non‐recipients, those receiving remittances are mo…
Emigration, Social Remittances and Fiscal Policy Preferences: Experimental Evidence From Mexico
How does emigration affect tax preferences in migrant-sending countries? Experiencing public services in a high tax-capacity destination may reduce support for tax increases by throwing fiscal failure at home into stark relief (the socialization hypothesis). Alternatively, migrants’ exclusion from certain public services may increase desire to fund these services in migrant origin countries (the exclusion hypothesis). We test these competing hypo…
Taxing the wealthy in Haiti: Evidence from a conjoint experiment on property tax preferences
Restoring trust in Mexico’s police: Do Officer Gender and Work Experience Matter
How can public confidence in the police be restored in high-crime environments? What type of police officers would citizens in violent democracies see as trusted? This paper examines how the gender and the occupational background of police officers affect citizens’ perceptions of effectiveness and misconduct of the local police. The focus is on Mexico, a country where military officers have taken over policing functions. Using an online survey ex…
When Governments Deliver: Migrant Remittances and the Willingness to Pay Higher Local Taxes
This article deviates from prior research which considers only national-level and formal taxes when examining tax attitudes and behaviours in migrant-sending countries. It investigates the relationship between the receipt of remittances and 'conditional tax compliance', and how it varies between the local and the national levels. The article posits that remittance recipients are willing to pay higher taxes at the local level in exchange for bette…
Migrant remittances and the decline of presidential term limits in sub-Saharan Africa
This paper examines how remittance dependence relates to public support for the abolition of presidential term limits in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), a region where electoral turnovers are rare and incumbents often manipulate restrictions on the permitted length of stay in office to prolong their rule. It is theorized that citizens who depend heavily on migrant remittances are more likely to support the removal of said limits. This preference is dri…
Citizens' aid preferences amid state collapse: Experimental evidence from Haiti
Motivation Citizens' preferences signal which intermediaries they view as legitimate, trustworthy, and responsive, as well as capable of guiding donor decisions about aid‐delivery channels. However, little is known about these preferences in extremely fragile environments, where aid is both the most urgently needed and the most difficult to deliver. Purpose This study examines whom citizens believe should deliver reconstruction and relief aid in …
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