Alberto Diaz-Cayeros
Director, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies
albertod@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858) 822-0056
Fax: (858) 534-6447
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0519
Office: #1419
Office Hours:
Wednesday
1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Education
Ph.D., Duke University, 1997 (political science)
M.A., Duke University (political science)
Licenciatura, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, 1990 (economics)
Programs and Centers
Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies
Latin America Regional Concentration Program
Biography
CVAlberto Díaz-Cayeros is an Associate Professor of International Relations and Pacific Studies and Director of the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies (USMEX). Prior to coming to IR/PS, Alberto was an assistant professor in the Stanford University Department of Political Science. Before taking a position at Stanford, he taught at UCLA and Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México in Mexico City. He has also been a researcher at CIDAC, a think tank in Mexico City.
In 1997, Professor Díaz-Cayeros received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Duke University with a specialization in comparative politics, political economy, and international political economy. His current research interests include poverty, development, federalism, clientelism and patronage, and Mexico.
Professor Díaz-Cayeros' book Federalism, Fiscal Authority and Centralization in Latin America, compares the evolution of Mexican fiscal centralization in the 20th century with Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela. He is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Strategies of Vote Buying: Social Transfers, Democracy and Welfare in Mexico (joint with Federico Estévez and Beatriz Magaloni).
Research Interests
Recent Working Papers:
Violence in Mexico
Living in Fear: Social Penetration of Criminal Organizations in Mexico. With Beatriz Magaloni, Aila Matanock and Vidal Romero. December 11, 2011.Living in Fear: Mapping the Social Embeddedness of Drug Gangs and Violence in Mexico. With Beatriz Magaloni, Aila Matanock and Vidal Romero. November 4, 2011.
The Root of Fear: Risk Perception and Victimization Rates. With Vidal Romero and Beatriz Magaloni.
Local Public Goods Provision in Mexico
Traditional Governance, Citizen Engagement and Local Public Goods: Evidence From Mexico. With Beatriz Magaloni and Alex Ruiz Euler.Information, Female Empowerment and Governance in Oaxaca, Mexico. April, 2010. With Beatriz Magaloni and Alex Ruiz Euler.
Strategies of Vote Buying: Democracy and Poverty Relief in Mexico (Book Manuscript, Tables and Figures), August 2011. With Federico Estevez and Beatriz Magaloni.
Political Economy of Public Health
Democracy, Autocracy and Fertility, September 2010. With Ruth Kricheli and Beatriz Magaloni.The Territoriality of Public Health Governance in Mexico. With Justin Levitt. August 30, 2011.
Executive Planning Horizon and Population Health Investments: Evidence from the Child Survival Revolution. With Ayesha Ali, Beatriz Magaloni, Grant Miller, and Paul Wise. January 2012.
Colonial Development in Mexico
Indian Identity, Poverty and Colonial Development in Mexico. March, 2011.Global Trade, Contracts and Poverty Alleviation in Indigenous Communities: Cochineal in Mexico. June 7, 2011. With Saumitra Jha.
Federalism
Entrenched Insiders: Limited Access Order in Mexico. October 19, 2011.Distributive Tensions in Developing Federations. With Pablo Beramendi. December 6, 2009.
Perspectives on Mexico
Mexico’s Economic Perspectives Beyond 2012. October 20, 2011.Where are We? Assessing the U.S.-Mexico Relationship. With Andrew Selee. October 2011.
International influences in the Mexican (failed and successful) transitions to democracy. With Beatriz Magaloni. November 11, 2011.
Why Developing Countries Sabotage Economic Growth: Land Reform in Mexico. With Beatriz Magaloni and Barry R. Weingast. May 14, 2008.
Publications of Note
(2006) Federalism, Fiscal Authority and Centralization in Latin America, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
(1995) Desarrollo Económico e Inequidad Regional: Hacia un Nuevo Pacto Federal en México (Economic Development and Regional Inequality: Towards a New Federal Pact in Mexico), México: Miguel Angel Porrua.
