RESEARCH INTERESTS
My main line of research sheds light on the influence of political campaigns on voting behavior. I study the influence of partisan identities on voters' electoral behavior as well as motivated reasoning during political campaigns. I also participate in collaborative research projects aiming to understanding why voters support corrupt politicians in Latin America, vote-buying in Mexico, and scientific opinion on climate change.
- American and Comparative Politics.
- Survey Research/Experimental Methods, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior.
- Political Campaigns, Partisanship, and Motivated Reasoning.
- Populism, Corruption, and Vote-Buying.
My main line of research sheds light on the influence of political campaigns on voting behavior. I study the influence of partisan identities on voters' electoral behavior as well as motivated reasoning during political campaigns. I also participate in collaborative research projects aiming to understanding why voters support corrupt politicians in Latin America, vote-buying in Mexico, and scientific opinion on climate change.
BOOK PROJECT
My book project--“Politics of Anger: Negative Partisanship, Campaigns, and the Breakdown of the Mexican Party System”— explains why voters stopped supporting traditional parties and triggered the breakdown of one of the most stable party systems in Latin America. My research identifies the powerful role of anger explaining the rise of the populist left in the 2018 presidential election in Mexico. In a context of perceived poor governance and widespread corruption, the Mexican left identified the source of grievance—the incumbent PRI and the PAN as part of the political establishment—and translated voters’ anger into electoral behavior. Based on an original two-wave panel survey, a postelectoral survey as well as nine survey experiments conducted during the presidential campaign, my book project answers two interrelated questions: 1) what conditions changed to lead voters to support the left after rejecting the same presidential candidate in the two previous presidential elections and, 2) what variables activated anger among Mexican voters? My research identifies three variables that moderated voters’ anger and made possible to translate it into political behavior: negative partisanship, misinformation, and political campaigns.
