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Alejandra
Current Visiting Fellows and Guest Scholars
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Alejandra Ríos-Cázares
Research Visiting Fellow
Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies
In residence September 2005 - June 2007
phone: (858) 822-0847 fax: (858) 534-6447
e-mail: arioscaz@weber.ucsd.edu
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Expertise
Comparative Politics, Political Development, Bureaucratic accountability.
Regions of Interest
Mexico, Latin America, Eastern Europe.
Current Project
The Circuitous Path of Democracy: Legislative Control of the Bureaucracy in Presidential Systems, the Case of Mexico (PhD dissertation)
My research identifies the necessary conditions for legislators in emerging presidential democracies to achieve bureaucratic accountability. Following the principal-agent approach, I advance a theoretical model that takes into account electoral incentives (e. g. career advancement or the need to secure a legislative majority) and resource constraints for effective oversight legislators in developing countries typically face (e.g. policy expertise, economic resources, and adequately trained personnel). To test my theory, I analyze Mexico at the sub-national level.
Publications
Recently, Alejandra Ríos-Cázares has published in the area of justice reform and rule of law in Mexico. She is a co-author with Dr. David A. Shirk of the introductory chapters of Reforming the Administration of Justice in Mexico (Center for US-Mexican Studies and Notre Dame university Press, 2007) and Evaluating Democratic Governance in Mexico: Political Accountability and Government Transparency (University of San Diego, forthcoming). With David A. Shirk and Cuitláhuac Bardán she coordinated the publication of the Análisis Técnico de la Propuesta de Reforma al Sistema de Justicia Mexicano. (Mexico: Instituto de Investigaciones Legislativas del Senado, IILSEN and the Center for US-Mexican Studies, UCSD. México: M.A. Porrúa, 2005). Previously, Alejandra published with Julio Ríos “Capital Social y Democracia: Una revisión crítica de Robert Putnam” in Política y Gobierno, vol. VI, núm.2. Her previous research on the Mexican Senate (bachelor’s thesis), El Senado frente al Presidente Madero: La XXVI Legislatura, was published by the Mexican Senate in 2000 (El Senado de la República: Revisión Histórica, Premio Rafael Dondé. México: Senado de la República)
Academic Background
Alejandra is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. She obtained an M.A. in political science from UCSD and a B.A. in political science and international relations from the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) located in Mexico City. Before entering graduate school in the fall of 2001, Alejandra worked as chief of research project at the Mexican Senate’s Institute of Legislative Research (Instituto de Investigaciones Legislativas del Senado, IILSEN) and as an analyst at the Office of Advisors of the Secretary of the Interior in Mexico (Oficina de Asesores del Secretario, Secretaría de Gobernación). In the fall of 2003, Alejandra became the assistant for the Project on Reforming the Administration of Justice in Mexico (PRAJM) coordinated by the UCSD's Center for US-Mexican Studies. From September 2005 to October 2006, Alejandra worked as coordinator of the Justice in Mexico Project at the University of San Diego’s Trans-Border Institute.
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