Dept. of Political Science
Encina Hall West, Room 303
Stanford University,
Stanford, CA

magaloni@stanford.edu
(650) 723-2613 (voice)

Research Interests
Mexican politics, comparative political party development and politics, Latin American politics, voting behavior

Beatriz Magaloni is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University (starting September 2009). Prior to joining Stanford in 2001, she was a Visiting Professor at UCLA and was a Professor of Political Science at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Mexico.

She won the American Political Science Association's Gabriel Almond Award for the Best Dissertation in Comparative Politics in 1998. Her book, Voting for Autocracy: Hegemonic Party Survival and its Demise in Mexico (Cambridge University Press) won the Leon Epstein Award in 2007 for the best book published in the previous two years in the area of political parties and organizations and the best book award given by the Comparative Democratization section of the American Political Sciene Association. 

Dr. Magaloni graduated with a M.A. and Ph.D in Political Science from Duke University in 1997. Her research interests include authoritarianism, democracy and regime transitions; political economy of development; and Latin American politics.

She is currently working on a book manuscript on Strategies of Vote-Buying: Poverty, Democracy, and Social Transfers in Mexico with Alberto Diaz-Cayeros and Federico Estevez as well as and several papers on authoritarian politics.