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Current Visiting Fellows and Guest Scholars
Expertise
Voting behavior; public opinion; campaigns and elections; survey design and analysis; applied statistics; game theory.
Regions of Interest
Mexico, United States, post-Communist countries, newly emerged democracies.
Current Project
Party Identification in Mexico (UCMEXUS dissertation grant awarded for 2003-2005).
Publications
Estrada has several unpublished manuscripts that focus on voting behavior and elections in Mexico, among which are "Assessing Strategic Voting: Mexico City 1997 and 2000 Mayoral Elections"; "Protest without Proposal: The Electoral Performance of the PRD at the Local Level"; "Determinantes y Características de los Independientes en México"; "Coalition Effects on Party Identification: The Case of Mexico" (with Ulises Beltrán); and "Negative Party Identification in Mexico", all of them presented in academic conferences and seminars in Mexico City, Chicago IL, and Portland, OR, since 2001.
Academic Background:
Luis Estrada earned his BA degree in Political Science from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) at Mexico City in 1999. Before starting his doctoral studies, Estrada worked at the Survey Research Unit at the Office of the President of Mexico from 1998 to 2000 where he was in charge of designing surveys that kept track of gubernatorial races in Mexico, delivering weekly reports to the President. Estrada has taught Basic Game Theory at ITAM, and has been a teaching assistant for several courses at UCSD, including Politics in Mexico (twice), Mass Media and Politics, Economic Theories of Voting Behavior, Urban Politics, Politics in Los Angeles, and Introduction to American Politics. He accepted the invitation to teach the course Politics in Mexico at UCSD scheduled for Spring 2005.
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