Current Visiting Fellows and Guest Scholars
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Pablo Parás
Visiting Fellow; Ph.D. candidate in Political Science, University of Connecticut
In residence September 2004 - June 2005
pparas@ucsd.edu
Phone (858) 822-6715; Fax (858) 534-6447
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Expertise
Social capital; public opinion; survey research methodology; confirmatory factor analysis; structural equation modeling.
Regions of Interest
Mexico and Latin America, newly emerged democracies.
Current Project
“The Power of Perceptions: Public Opinion, Social capital and Democracy in Mexico.”
Publications
Color and Democracy in Latin America; chapter in Citizen Views of Democracy in Latin America, edited by Roderic Ai Camp, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001 (with Miguel Basañez). El Rostro de la Pobreza: Inseguridad Alimentaria en el D.F., Este Pais, 2004 (with Rafael Perez Escamilla). Corruption and Democratic Governability in Mexico co-authored with John Bailey (forthcoming Estudios Mexicanos, summer 2005). Unweaving the Social Fabric: The Impact of Crime on Social Capital (forthcoming, can be downloaded from http://repositories.cdlib.org/usmex/prajm/paras).
Academic Background:
Paras is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science from the University of Connecticut. Paras holds an M.A. in Latin America studies from Georgetown and a B.A. in business from the ITAM. After having directed the Center for Public Opinion Research (CEOP) and MORI of Mexico, Paras created his own research company in 2003: Data Opinion Publica y Mercados.
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