RODRIGO CASTRO CORNEJO Notre Dame, IN 46556 email: rcastroc@nd.edu Research Interests Survey Research Methodology, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior. Comparative Political Behavior and Latin America Politics. Campaigns, Elections, and Voter Mobilization. Vote-Buying, Clientelism, and Experimental Research. Comparative Democratization and Regime Change. Survey Research, Expert Opinion, and Climate Change. Education Expected 2016 PhD in Political Science,, IN. Fields: Comparative Politics and American Politics Dissertation: Do Campaigns Matter? Campaign Effects, Survey Research Methodology, and Party System Institutionalization. Committee: Scott Mainwaring (chair), Michael Coppedge, Debra Javeline and Geoffrey Layman. 2013 MA in Political Science,, IN. 2008 BA in Political Science, CIDE, Mexico City, Mexico. Peer-Reviewed Publications Botero, Sandra, Rodrigo Castro Cornejo, Laura Gamboa, Nara Pavão and David Nickerson. 2015. Says Who? An Experiment on Allegations of Corruption and Credibility of Sources, Political Research Quarterly 68 (3): 493-504. Javeline, Debra, Jessica J. Hellmann, Jason S. McLachlan, Dov F. Sax, and Mark W. Schwartz and Rodrigo Castro Cornejo. 2015. Expert Opinion on Extinction Risk and Climate Change Adaptation, Elementa. Science of the Anthroposcene 3 : 000057. Javeline, Debra, Jessica Hellmann, Rodrigo Castro Cornejo and Gregory Schufeldt. 2014. Expert Opinion on Climate Change and Threats to Biodiversity, BioScience 63(8): 666-673. Under Review Do Campaigns Matter? Survey Satisficing, Swing Voters, and Party System Institutionalization. How Do Campaigns Matter? Campaign Information, Electoral Polls, and Swing Voters. Experimental Evidence from Mexico. Are All Types of Corruption Created Equal in the Eyes of Voters. Experimental Evidence from Argentina (with Sandra Botero, Laura Gamboa, Nara Pavão, and David W. Nickerson). Under Friendly Fire: An Experiment on Partisan Press, Fragmented Opposition, and Voting Behavior (with Sandra Botero, Laura Gamboa, Nara Pavão, and David W. Nickerson). 1
Working Papers (In Progress) Campaigns and Elections Does the Measurement of Party Identification Matter? Experimental Evidence from Latin America. How Do Campaigns Matter? Campaign Fundamentals, Fluid Partisanship, and Party System Institutionalization. The Final Push: Early Voting vs. Election Day Door-To-Door Voter Mobilization (with Pilar Giannini and David W. Nickerson). How Do Campaigns Matter? Clientelistic Mobilization and Party System Institutionalization (with Ulises Beltrán). Voting Behavior and Survey Experiments Do Voters Punish Clientelism as Severely as Private Corruption? Experimental Evidence from El Salvador (with Sandra Botero, Laura Gamboa, Nara Pavão, and David W. Nickerson). Voters True Attitudes and Reactions to Politician s Sex Scandals: Experimental Evidence from Mexico (with Sandra Botero, Laura Gamboa, Nara Pavão, and David W. Nickerson). Zetas, Subject Attrition and the War against Drug-Cartels: Experimental Evidence from Mexico (with Sandra Botero, Laura Gamboa, Nara Pavão, and David W. Nickerson). Other Working Papers Who is Most Certain? Scientific Opinion on the Existence and Consequences of Climate Change (With Debra Javeline). Who s Right? Support for Conservative Parties in Latin America (with Peter Johannessen). How Does Religious Affiliation Affect Vote Choice? Experimental Evidence from Mexico. Grants and awards Research Grant to field survey experiments in Latin America (Argentina, Guatemala, Honduras, and Costa Rica),. Spring 2016. $7, 000 Conference Travel Grant,. Fall 2015. $1, 200 Dissertation Year Fellowship,,. 2016. Research Grant to field panel surveys in Mexico,. Spring 2015. $7, 000 Loescher Teaching Fellowship,, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame. Spring 2015. This fellowship provides an additional semester of stipend. Dissertation Year Fellowship,,. Fall 2014/ Fall 2015. Kellogg Grant to fund a Working Group on Public Opinion and Elections, Academic year 2013-2014. $6, 000 Mellon ISLA Interdisciplinary Workshop Grant, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts (ISLA),. Academic year 2013-2014. $9, 000 Graduate Student Professionalization Grant,, University of Notre Dame, 2012 and 2013. $3, 000 Semester Stipend paid by the Varieties of Democracy Project, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Spring and Fall 2013. 2
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation s Summer Fellowship, Mellon Initiative on Religion across the Disciplines, 2012. $6, 000 Semester Stipend paid by the Notre Dame Environmental Change Initiative, University of Notre Dame, Spring 2012. Professional Development Grant, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts (ISLA), University of Notre Dame, 2011 and 2012. $1, 600 Downes J. Memorial Fund, The Graduate School,, 2011. $1, 500 Notebaert Professional Development Fund, The Graduate School,, 2011. $1, 000 Kellogg Institute PhD Fellowship, Garza Fellow,, University of Notre Dame, 2010-2015. $5, 000 Teaching Experience Instructor, Voting Behavior, Campaigns and Elections Around the World, Spring 2015. Teaching undergrad course as a recipient of the Loescher Teaching Fellowship. Teaching Assistant, Intoduction to Comparative Politcs, Prof. Guillermo Trejo, Spring 2014 Intoduction to Comparative Politcs, Prof. Robert Dowd, C.S.C., Fall 2011 and Fall 2012. Research Experience Investigator of the Mexico CSES team that conducted the 2015 Comparative Study of Electoral Systems - National Electoral Study (Mexico). Party System Institutionalization in Latin America. Summer 2014 and 2015. Research assistance for book on party system institutionalization in Latin America by Scott Mainwaring. Varieties of Democracy Project. Spring and Fall 2013. Research and management assistance for large collaborative project on democracy in the world between 1900-2012, directed by Michael Coppedge. Notre Dame Environmental Change Initiative. Spring 2012. Research assistance and data analysis of the elite survey of environmental biologists about climate change and managed relocation, directed by Debra Javeline and Jessica Hellmann. Democratization in Latin America. Summer 2011. Research assistance for book on democratization in Latin America by Scott Mainwaring. Academic and Departamental Service Coordinator of the Mexico Working Group, (Fall 2012- Fall 2015). Co-chair of the Public Opinion and Elections Working Group (with Scott Mainwaring), Kellogg Institute for International Studies (AY 2013-2014). Coordinator of the Latino Politics Workshop, funded by the Mellon ISLA Interdisciplinary Workshop Grant, the Institute for Latino Studies and the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy (AY 2013-2014). Coordinator of the Mexico Working Group, (Fall 2012- Fall 2015). Coordinator of the Democracy Working Group, (2013). 3
Coordinator of the Comparative Politics Workshop, Kellogg Institute (AY 2012-2013). Member of the Comparative Politics Search Committee (tenure-track position) (2013). Comparative Politics Grad Student Representative (AY 2012-2013). Selected Presentations Campaign Effects and Party System Institutionalization, paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, IL. April, 2015. Under Friendly Fire: Partisan Press, Political Fragmentation and Candidate Evaluations. Experimental evidence from Argentina, paper presented at the Comparative Politics Workshop, Kellogg Institute,. November, 2014 Who s Right? Support for Conservative Parties in Latin America, paper presented at the International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). Chicago, IL. May, 2014. Who s Right? Support for Conservative Parties in Latin America, paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, IL. April, 2014. Campaign Effects and Party System Institutionalization, presented at the Democracy Working Group, Kellogg Institute. December, 2013. Ideology and Political Awareness in the 2012 Presidential Election in Mexico, paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Latin American Political Science Association, Bogotá, Colombia. September, 2013. Ideology and Political Awareness in the 2012 Presidential Election in Mexico, paper presented at the XXXI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Washington D.C. May, 2013. Says Who? The Impact of Sources of Corruption Accusations in Colombia, paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, IL. April, 2013. Says Who? The Impact of Sources of Corruption Accusations in Colombia, paper presented at the Comparative Politics Workshop,. April, 2013 Academic Membership American Political Science Association (APSA), Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), and Latin American Studies Association (LASA). Specialized Training Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), Summer Program in Quantitative Methods, University of Michigan, 2011 and 2012. Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research (IQMR), Summer Program in Qualitative Methods, Syracuse University, 2013. Professional Experience Research Analyst at the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), Representation office Mexico (2006-2007). Senior Research Analyst (Electoral Studies) at BGC Ulises Beltrán y Asocs., survey research firm in Mexico (2008-2010). 4
Skills Methods: Linear and nonlinear models, maximum likelihood and categorical dependent variable models, multilevel models. Survey research: Survey design and data analysis. Survey experimental research. Tech: SPSS, STATA, L A TEX, Beamer, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint Languages: Spanish (native), English (advanced reading, writing, and speaking), Italian (basic). References Scott Mainwaring (Advisor) Harvard Kennedy School Harvard University 79 JFK Street Cambridge, MA 02138 scott mainwaring@hks.harvard.edu Michael Coppedge 216 Hesburgh Center mcoppedg@nd.edu David W. Nickerson Temple University 4th Floor Gladfelter Hall Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA. david.nickerson@temple.edu Debra Javeline javeline@nd.edu Geoffrey Layman glayman@nd.edu Guillermo Trejo 312 Hesburgh Center gtrejo@nd.edu 5