Assistant Professor,
Ph.D., Duke University

email    homepage    CV

Encina West, Room 436
Phone: (650) 723-2613

Research

Comparative Politics
Political Economy
Latin American Politics


Courses

  • Latin American Politics. Stanford University, Spring 2005. Winter 2000. Spring 2008
  • Speaker Series in Comparative Politics (440c) with Isabela Mares, Academic year of 2003-2004 and with Alberto Diaz-Cayeros, 2007-2008 and 2004-2005.
  • Core Graduate Seminar in Comparative Politics (440A) Fall 2001, 2002, and 2003.
  • Democracies and Autocracies. Winter 2002. Spring 2003, Spring 2004.
  • Mexican Politics.  Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2004.
  • Comparative Party Politics. Stanford University, Spring 2000.
  • Comparative Political Institutions. Stanford University, Spring 2000; Spring 2002.  Winter 2003

Awards and Honors

Prizes

Leon Epstein Award in 2007 for the best book published in the previous two years in the area of political parties and organizations. Title of the book: Voting for Autocracy: Hegemonic Party Survival and its Demise in Mexico

Best book award in 2007 given by the Comparative Democratization section, American Political Sciene Associaiton. Title of the book: Voting for Autocacy: Hegemonic Party Survival and its Demise in Mexico

W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow and the Susan Louis Dyer Peace Fellowship at the Hoover Institution, 2006-2007

Gabriel Almond 1998 Award for the Best Dissertation in Comparative Politics by the American Political Science Associaiton

Winner with Alberto Diaz-Cayeros and Barry Weingast of the 2001 prize for the best paper in comparative politics presented at the 96th American Political Science Association Meeting (Paper title: “Federalism and Democratization in Mexico”).

    Fellowships and Honors

    Rockefeller Foundation Grant for a conference organized with Alberto Diaz-Cayeros at the Bellagio Center, December 2005 “Poverty, Democracy and Vote-buying.”

    World Bank. Research Grant on The Political Economy of Decentralized Poverty Relief in Mexico. Summer 2000.

    Visiting Assistant Professor, UCLA, September 2000 – June 2001.

    Visiting Fellow, Harvard University September 1996-August 1997

    Social Science Research Council for Latin America and The Caribbean (SSRC). September 1993 - March 1994.

    Institute for the Study of World Politics (ISWP) Dissertation Grant. March - August 1994.

    Member of the Editorial Board of the CIDE-Oceano collection.

    Member of the Taller de Consulta Ciudadana.

    Distinction in Preliminary Examinations, Duke University. March 1993.

    Tinker Foundation, Field Research Grant in Mexico, through the Center of Latin American Studies at Duke. August 1992.

    Center for International Studies at Duke, Field Research Grant in Hungary. June - July 1992.

    Mellon-Latin American Fellowship. 1990 - 1994.

    Fulbright Fellowship. 1990 - 1992.

    Ford-McArthur Fellowship. 1990 - 1992

    High Honors (ITAM). 1989


    Publications and work in progress

     

    Books

    • Voting for Autocracy: Hegemonic Party Survival and its Demise in Mexico (2006) Cambridge University Press.
    • A la Puerta de la Ley: El Estado de Derecho en México, with Luis Rubio and Edna Jaime (eds) 1993 México: CIDAC-Cal y Arena. 

    Book Manuscript

    Strategies of Vote-Buying: Poverty, Democracy, and Social Transfers in Mexico, with Alberto Diaz-Cayeros and Federico Estevez (some chapters can be downloaded at http://www.stanford.edu/~albertod/conference/)

    Books in Progress

    • The Comparative Logic of Autocratic Survival 
    • Democratic Accountability and the Rule of Law in Mexico, with Alberto Diaz-Cayeros (edited volume with funding from the Democracy, Development and Rule of law Center (CDDRL), Stanford University. Almost  completed

    Selected Articles in Progress


    “Hegemonic Party Autocracies Around the World,” R&R Studies in Comparative International Development 

    With Alberto Diaz-Cayeros and Barry Weingast “Tragic Brilliance: Hegemonic Party Survival and its Demise in Mexico, R&R Comparative Politcs  

    With John Aldrich and Elizabeth Zechmeister “When Hegemonic Parties Lose: The 2000 Elections in Mexico and Taiwan” R&R Journal of Politics

    With Arianna Sanchez “The New Mexican Supreme Court in the Emering Democracy,” R&R Comparative Political Studies

    “Elections Under Autocracy and the Strategic Game of Electoral Fraud,” under review American Journal of Political Science

    With Alberto Diaz-Cayeros and Barry Weingast “Why Authoritarian Governments Sabotage Economic Growth: Land Reform in Mexico” soon to be submitted

    Published Articles

    “Credible Power-Sahring and the Longevity of Authoritarian Rule” (forthcoming, 2008) Comparative Political Studies

    With Vidal Romero “Partian Cleavages, State Retrenchemtn and Free Trade: Latin America in the 1990s” (forthcoming, 2008) Latin American Research Review

    With Alberto Diaz-Cayeros (forthcoming, 2008) “Electoral Risk and Redistributive Politics: Mexico and the United States“ Studies in Comparative International Development, 43:1

    with Alberto Diaz-Cayeros (2001) “Party Dominance and the Logic of Electoral Design in Mexico’s Transition to Democracy” Journal of Theoretical Politics 13(3):271-293

    with Alberto Diaz-Cayeros “Democratic Accountability and the Rule of Law in Mexico” (forthcoming) Política y Gobierno

    (1996) "Dominancia de Partido y Dilemas Duvergerianos en las Elecciones Federales de 1994" (Party Dominance and Duvergerian Dilemmas in the 1994 Federal Elections) Política y Gobierno Vol.3, Num. 2.

    (1994) "Elección Racional y Voto Estratégico: Algunas Aplicaciones al caso Mexicano" (Rational Choice and Strategic Voting: Some Applications to the Mexican Case) Política y Gobierno, Vol. 1, Num 2.

    (1999) with Alberto Diaz-Cayeros “Autoridad Presupuestal del Poder legislativo en México: Una Primera Aproximación” Política y Gobierno, Vol. 5, Num 2.

    Published Chpaters

    “Autocratic Political order and the Role of Courts: The Case of Mexico” In  Ginsburg Tom and Moustaffa, Tamir (eds) Rule By Law: The Politics of Courts in Authoritarian Regimes (forthcoming) Cambridge University Press

    With Alberto Diaz-Cayeros and Federico Estevez “A House Divided Against Itself: How the PRI survives after 2000” (forthcoming) Joseph Wong and Edward Friedman (eds) Learning to Lose: Dominant Party Systems  and their Transitions Routledge

    with Alberto Diaz-Cayeros and Federico Estévez (2006) “Clientelism and Porfolio Diversification: A model of Electoral Investment with Applications to Mexico” In Herbert Kitschelt and Steven Wilkinson Patrons of Policies London: Cambridge University Press.

    (2005) “The Demise of Mexico’s One-Party Dominant Regime: Elite Choices and the Masses in the establishment of Democracy” in Scott Mainwaring and Frances Hagopian (eds) The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America: Advances and Setbacks in Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    with Alberto Diaz Cayeros (2004) “Designing Electoral Rules by a Dominant Party” in Josep Colomer Handbook of Electoral System Choice Palgrave-Macmillan

    with Guillermo Zepeda (2004) “Democratization, Crime and Judicial Reform in Mexico” in Kevin Middlebrook Dilemmas of Change in Mexican Politics joint publication of the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, UCSD and the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London.

    with Alejandro Poiré (2004) “Strategic Coordination in the 2000 Mexican Presidential Race” in Jorge Domínguez and Chappell Lawson Mexico’s Pivotal Elections Stanford: Stanford University Press

    with Alejandro Poiré (2004) “Issues, the Vote and the Mandate for Change” in Jorge Domínguez and Chappell Lawson Mexico’s Pivotal Elections Stanford: Stanford University Press

    (2003) “Authoritarianism, Democracy and the Supreme Court: Horizontal Exchange and the Rule of Law in Mexico” in Scott Mainwaring and Christopher Welna (eds) Democratic Accountability in Latin America. Oxford University Press.

    with Alejandro Moreno (2003) “Catching-All-Souls: The PAN and the Politics of Catholicism in Mexico”, in Timothy Scully and Scott Mainwaring (eds) Christian Democracy in Latin America. Stanford: Stanford University Press

    (2002) “El Poder Judicial en el Siglo XX” in Soledad Loaeza (coordinadora) Gran Historia de México Ilustrada México: Planeta, Tomo V (Textbook on political history of Mexico in the XXth century)

    (1999) “Is the PRI fading? Economic Performance, Electoral Accountability and Voting Behavior” in Jorge Domínguez and Alejandro Poiré (eds.) The New Mexican Party System. New York: Routledge.

    with Alberto Diaz (1999) “Autoridad Presupuestal del Poder Legislativo en México: una Primera Aproximación” (Budgetary Authority of the Mexican Legislature: A Preliminary Assessment) Política y Gobierno.