Alejandro Poiré September 2006 Current address: John F. Kennedy School of Government 79 John F. Kennedy Street Rubenstein-119 Office phone: (617)-496-4391 alejandro_poire@harvard.edu http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~apoire Born: 1971 in Mexico City. Academic positions Visiting Lecturer, Government Department,, (fall 2006). Visiting Professor of Political Science, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (academic year 2006 2007). Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor in Latin American Studies, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Univesity (academic year 2005 2006). Chair, Political Science Department, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, ITAM (July 1999 December 2003). Professor, Political Science Department, ITAM (July 1999 December 2003). Director of Undergraduate Studies, Political Science Department, ITAM (1999 2000). Teaching Fellow, Core Curriculum (A History of the Cuban Revolution, Jorge I. Domínguez) and Social Studies Program (Statistics for Social Sciences, Bradley Palmquist), 1998 1999. Visiting Lecturer, Political Science Department, ITAM (Summer 1996). Education PhD in Political Science (November 5 th, 2002), Department of Government,. Dissertation: Bounded Ambitions. Party Nominations, Discipline and Defection: Mexico s PRI in Comparative Perspective. Committee: Jorge I. Domínguez (chair), Robert Bates, Torben Iversen. AM in Political Science (June 10 th, 1999), Department of Government,. BA in Political Science (August 15 th, 1995), graduated with highest honors, ITAM. Thesis: Party Loyalty and Electoral Dealignment in the Presidential Election of 1994. 1
Additional professional experience Executive Director for Political Parties, Instituto Federal Electoral (IFE), Mexico (December 2003 July 2005). Academic Advisor to the Encuesta Nacional de Cultura Política y Prácticas Ciudadanas 2001, Secretaría de Gobernación, National Political Culture Survey 2001 (Mexican Ministry of the Interior), and Instituto Nacional de Geografía, Estadística e Informática (National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Information), November 2001 January 2002. Advisor to the Head of the Institute s Chief of Staff, Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS, 1993 1995). Publications and research Published books Toward Mexico's Democratization: Parties, Campaigns, Elections, and Public Opinion, co-edited with Jorge I. Domínguez: New York, Routledge, February 1999. Published articles in refereed journals Spatial and Temporal Effects in the Mexican Direct Elections for the Chamber of Deputies, 2004, with Juan José Fernández Durán and Leonardo Rojas Nandayapa, Political Geography, 23 (5), pp. 529-548. Un Modelo Sofisticado de Decisión Electoral Racional: el Voto Estratégico en México, 1997, Política y Gobierno, 24, 2, 2000: 353 382. (A Sophisticated Model of Rational Electoral Choice: Strategic Voting in Mexico 1997). Published chapters in edited volumes The Issues, the Vote, and the Mandate for Change, with Beatriz Magaloni. In Mexico's Pivotal Democratic Election: Candidates, Voters and the Presidential Campaign of 2000, edited by Jorge I. Domínguez and Chappell Lawson, 293-319. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press and Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, 2004. Strategic Coordination in the 2000 Mexican Presidential Race, with Beatriz Magaloni. In Mexico's Pivotal Democratic Election: Candidates, Voters and the Presidential Campaign of 2000, edited by Jorge I. Domínguez and Chappell Lawson, 269-292. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press and Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, 2004. Restrospective Voting, Partisanship and Loyalty in Presidential Elections: 1994, in Jorge I. Domínguez and Alejandro Poiré (eds.): Toward Mexico's Democratization: Parties, Campaigns, Elections, and Public Opinion; New York, Routledge, February 1999. Por una democracia de mayor calidad: la reforma de la política en México. En José Antonio Aguilar Rivera (coord.), México: Crónicas de un País Posible; Fondo de Cultura Económica, México, 2005. (For a better quality democracy: political reform in Mexico). 2
Papers submitted for publication Campaign Finance and Playing Field Levelness Issues in the Run-up to Mexico's July 2006 Presidential Election, with Todd Eisenstadt, University of California in San Diego, Center for U.S. Mexican Studies Working Paper. Under review at Political Science Quarterly. In the Public Interest or a Poisoned Subsidy? Public Funding of Parties: Sub-National Evidence from Mexico. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 35. Washington, DC, August 2006, originally presented at FLACSO Chile, Santiago de Chile, February, 2006. Under review for publication in an edited volume by WWICS. Follow the money: Local public funding and internal party transfers in 2003, in Matthew S. Shugart and Jeffrey A. Weldon (eds.), What Kind of Democracy has Mexico? The Evolution of Presidentialism and Federalism, in preparation. Preferencia y satisfacción con la democracia en México: un panorama de los últimos 10 años, with Mariana Medina, in Jorge Buendía and Julia Flores (eds.) La democracia en México según el Latinobarómetro, México, in preparation. (Preference for and satisfaction with democracy in Mexico in the past 10 years). Posibles determinantes de la preferencia por y de la satisfacción con la democracia en México, with Alejandro Díaz, in Jorge Buendía and Julia Flores (eds.) La democracia en México según el Latinobarómetro, México, in preparation. (Determinants of preference and satisfaction with democracy in Mexico). Working papers and work in progress Elements for a Theory of Political Finance. In KSG Working Paper No. RWP06-014, available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=832631. Cambridge, MA, 2006. The Best Things in Life are Free: explaining free access to the media by political parties, with Naunihal Singh; prepared for presentation at the 102 nd annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, September 2, 2006. Allegations of Fraud in Mexico s 2006 Presidential Election, with Luis Estrada; prepared for presentation at the 102 nd annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, September 1, 2006. The Problem of Money in Electoral Politics: a Latin American Perspective, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Working Paper,, November 29, 2005. Why Primaries? presented at the 60 th annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, April 2003. Political Ambition and Nomination Rule Choice, presented at the 98 th annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, September 2002. The Impact of Nomination Rules on Party Discipline, presentation at the annual meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Miami, March 2000. Turnout in Mexico s Presidential Election: Evidence from the Mexico 2000 Panel Study, Working Papers in Political Science, ITAM, 2001-02. Early Campaign Dynamics in the 2000 Mexican Presidential Election, with Federico Estévez, Working Papers in Political Science, ITAM, 2001-01. 3
Turnout as a Rationally Careless Investment Decision: an Application to the Mexican Case in 1994, Working Papers in Political Science, ITAM, 2000-04. Additional work in progress: Perceptions of Fairness and Potential for Protest in Mexico 2006, with Luis Estrada, for Journal of Democracy, in preparation for submission by October 2006. The Concept of Electoral Fairness in Democratic Elections: an application to Mexico 2006, in preparation for a conference to write an edited volume, hosted by Harvard Univeristy s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, December 2006. Published essays, notes, and others La Evidencia del Fraude with Luis Estrada. Enfoque, Reforma, August 13, 2006. El Bueno, el Malo y la Incógnita: ensayo sobre las primarias partidarias del 2005. Bien Común 11, no. 132 (2005): 7-10. (An essay on Mexico s presidential primaries in 2005). Reflexiones Sobre la Equidad de la Elección Presidencial de 2006. Este País, July 2006. (Issues of fairness in Mexico s 2006 presidential election). From Hope to Despair? Latin America s Year of Elections. ReVista, Harvard Review of Latin America, spring/summer 2006. Competencia Democrática y Reforma Estructural: el Papel de la Reelección Inmediata, Gaceta de Ciencia Política, ITAM, II, 1, México, Invierno de 2001; also published in Gaceta de Economía, ITAM, 9, 2003: 341-354. (Electoral competition and structural reform: the role of immediate reelection). La Agenda de Investigación en torno a la Aversión al Riesgo, con Ana Lorena de la O, Gaceta de Ciencia Política, ITAM, I, 1, México, Enero de 2001. (A research agenda on risk aversion). Para el Sufragio Efectivo, Sí Reelección. Análisis Plural de la Realidad Nacional: Crisis del Cambio, 1er. Semestre 2002. (For effective suffrage, no single-term limits). Plus several book reviews, short notes, and op-eds in Letras Libres, Nexos, and Enfoque, among others. Funded research Research project on local party finance in Mexico, funded by the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation, and the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, Kennedy School of Government,, December 2005, $17,500. Dean s Research Fund, Kennedy School of Government, spring 2006. Senior research personnel in the Mexico 2000 Panel Study, NSF grant SES-9905703, and the Mexico 2006 Panel Study, NSF grant SES-0517971. Principal investigator (with Alejandro Moreno) in the Mexico 2002 Panel Study, funded by the Hewlett Foundation and Reforma newspaper. 4
Fellowships and distinctions Antonio Madero-Fundación México Visiting Scholar, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 2006 2007. Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Visiting Fellowship, University of Notre Dame, fall 2006 (declined). Recipient of a Junior Post-Doctoral Scholars in the Study of Democracy fellowship, an international competition sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Latin American Program, 2006. Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professorship in Latin American Studies, John F. Kennedy School of Government and David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, 2005 2006. Visiting Scholar, MIT Mexico program, Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006 2007. Selected by Mexico s National System of Researchers (SNI CONACYT) as Candidate for National Researcher, 2002 2005. Visiting researcher, Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences,, summer 2002 (unpaid). Visting researcher, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,, summer 2000 and 2001 (unpaid). Dinner on the Dean distinction for teaching, Kennedy School of Government, fall 2005. Distinction to Outstanding Teaching Performance, ITAM, 1999 and 2000. Prize to Outstanding Achievement as a Teaching Fellow, Core Curriculum,, 1998. Nominated by the Government Department as Candidate for a Merit Fellowship to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 1997. William and Flora Hewlett and Ford Foundations Scholarship for Graduate Students, 1995 1997. Winner, First Prize, Best BA Thesis in Political Science, National College of Political Science and Public Administration, Mexico 1996. Invited academic presentations (since 1999) American University Boston University (September 2006) Duke University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Oxford University Princeton University University of California in San Diego University of Michigan University of Notre Dame (February 2007) University of Texas Austin David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, 5
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, México Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana Escuela Nacional de Estudios Profesionales de Acatlán, México Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, UNAM Facultad de Derecho, UNAM Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas, UNAM Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (DF and Estado de México) Universidad Anáhuac del Sur, DF Universidad de Guanajuato Universidad de Monterrey Cámara de Diputados del H. Congreso de la Unión, México Senado de la República, México Teaching Undergraduate courses: Contemporary Mexican Politics; Harvard Government Department. Introduction to Political Science; ITAM. Public Choice II: introductory collective action, public choice and social choice theory, spatial models of politics and theories of mass voting behavior; ITAM. Political Science Research Seminar I: parties, politicians and elections; ITAM. Political Science Research Seminar II: electoral behavior; ITAM. Graduate courses: The Problem of Money in Electoral Politics; KSG & Harvard Government Department. Good Governance and Democratization; KSG, Masters in Public Administration / International Development. Institutional Political Analysis; ITAM s Masters in Public Policy. Executive education modules offered: Electoral behavior; ITAM extension school. Political analysis for legislative duties; ITAM extension school, taught to members of Mexico s Congress and Senate, 2000-2001. Professional service and associations Member of the Policy Committee, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University (since 2006). Member of the Mexican Studies Committee, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, (since 2005). Member of the American Political Science Association (since 1999). Member of the Midwest Political Science Association (since 2000). Member of the Editorial Committee, Política y Gobierno, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), México (since 2000). 6
Member of the Editorial Board, Estudios Políticos, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México (2000 2003). Referee for Cambridge University Press, Política y Gobierno, Comparative Political Studies and Revista Mexicana de Sociología. Founding member of the Red Mexicana por una Democracia de Calidad, an NGO promoting the introduction of consecutive reelection for Mexico s legislators (2003-2005). Languages Fully bilingual (Spanish, English). References Robert H. Bates Eaton Professor of the Science of Government Department of Government CGIS Knafel Building, Room N213 1737 Cambridge St. rbates@latte.harvard.edu Merilee Grindle Edward S. Mason Professor of International Development John F. Kennedy School of Government 79 John F. Kennedy St. merilee_grindle@harvard.edu Jorge I. Domínguez Antonio Madero Professor of Mexican and Latin American Politics and Economics Department of Government CGIS Knafel Building, Room N216 1737 Cambridge Street jorge_dominguez@harvard.edu Torben Iversen Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy Department of Government CGIS Knafel Building, Room N308 1737 Cambridge St. iversen@fas.harvard.edu Beatriz Magaloni Assistant Professor Department of Political Science Stanford University Encina West, Room 303 Stanford, CA 94305 magalon@stanford.edu 7