Dept. of Political Science
Encina Hall West, Room 436
Stanford University,
Stanford, CA

magaloni@stanford.edu
(650) 724-5949 (voice)

Research Interests
Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Latin American Politics

Beatriz Magaloni is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University and Director of the Poverty and Governance Program at the Center for Democracy, Development and Rule of Law. Prior to joining Stanford in 2001, she was a Visiting Professor at UCLA and was a Professor of Political Science at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Mexico.

Her main areas of research include comparative politics, development, and the politics of authoritarian regimes. She is working on various projects on political clientelism and the politics of poverty reduction; local governance, civic engagement, and public good provision; rule of law; protest and authoritarian breakdown; and crime and drug-related violence. She is currently conducting field research in Southern Mexico to investigate the role of local traditional governance practices on local public good provision in indigenous communities. She also has a book manuscript on Strategies of Vote-Buying: Poverty, Democracy, and Social Transfers in Mexico (with Alberto Diaz-Cayeros and Federico Estévez), which studies from a theoretical and empirical perspectives the politics of clientelism, its negative welfare consequences, and its abandonment for more accountable forms of political exchange. The book focuses on Mexico’s poverty relief strategies during the last twenty years. 

Articles of hers have appeared in the American Journal of Political Science; Annual Review of Political Science; Comparative Political Studies; Journal of Theoretical Politics; Latin American Research Review, and numerous edited volumes.

Her book, Voting for Autocracy: Hegemonic Party Survival and its Demise in Mexico (Cambridge University Press) won the Leon Epstein Award in 2007 for the best book published in the previous two years in the area of political parties and organizations and the best book award given by the Comparative Democratization section of the American Political Science Association. She won the American Political Science Association's Gabriel Almond Award for the Best Dissertation in Comparative Politics in 1998.

Dr. Magaloni graduated with a M.A. and Ph.D in Political Science from Duke University in 1997. She also has a law degree from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM).