Beatriz Magaloni

Bio

Beatriz Magaloni is Professor in the Department of Political Science and a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) at Stanford University. She is also director of the Poverty, Violence and Governance Lab. Most of her current work focuses on state repression, police, human rights, and violence. In 2010 she founded the Poverty, Violence and Governance Lab (POVGOV) within FSI's Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law.

Her first book, Voting for Autocracy: Hegemonic Party Survival and its Demise in Mexico (Cambridge University Press, 2006), won the Best Book Award from the Comparative Democratization Section of the American Political Science Association and the 2007 Leon Epstein Award for the Best Book published in the previous two years in the area of political parties and organizations. Her second book, The Political Logic of PovertyRelief (co-authored with Alberto Diaz Cayeros and Federico Estévez), also published by Cambridge University Press, studies the politics of poverty relief. Why clientelism is such a prevalent form of electoral exchange, how it distorts policies aimed at aiding the poor, and when it can be superseded by more democratic and accountable forms of electoral exchange are some of the central questions that the book addresses.

Her work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, World Development, Comparative Political Studies, Annual Review of Political Science, Latin American Research Review, Journal of Theoretical Politics and other journals.

Prior to joining Stanford in 2001, Professor Magaloni was a visiting professor at UCLA and a professor of Political Science at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). She earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from Duke University. She also holds a law degree from ITAM.

Academic Appointments

• Professor, Political Science
• Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
• Affiliate, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

Honors & Awards

• Leon D. Epstein Outstanding Book Award, American Political Science Association (2007)
• Best book award given by the Comparative Democratization section, American Political Science Association (2007)
• Best Paper in Comparative Politics, 96th American Political Science Association Meeting (with Alberto Diaz-Cayeros and Barry Weingast) (2001)
• Gabriel Almond Award — Best Dissertation in Comparative Politics, American Political Science Association (1998)

Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations

• Chair of the Michael Wallerstein Award for the best paper on political economy published in the past two years, American Political Science Association Meeting (2012 - 2012)
• Organizer of the Comparative Politics of Developing Countries Section, American Political Science Association Meeting (2011 - 2011)
• Gabriel Almond Award Committee, Comparative Politics Division, American Political Science Association (2010 - 2010)
• Lubbert Award for Best Paper, Comparative Politics Division, American Political Science Association (2005 - 2005)
• Assistant to the editor, World Development (2013 - Present)
• Research Scholars Group, World Justice Project (2013 - Present)

Program Affiliations

• Center for Latin American Studies
• Program in International Relations

Professional Education

• Ph.D., Duke University, Department of Political Science (1997)
• M.A., Duke University, Department of Political Science (1993)
• Licenciatura, ITAM, Mexico, Law (1989)