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This event is in English. Spanish translation available online through Zoom only. This event is hybrid; to attend virtually, register here.
This online panel will discuss Mexico's upcoming elections from multiple perspectives, providing both a general overview and specific policies and candidate positions that define this election.
Speakers Joy Langston, Professor and Researcher of Political Science at the Center of International Studies-CEI, Colegio de México. Kenneth F. Greene, Associate Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin. Mariano Sánchez-Talanquer, Assistant Professor at the Center for International Studies, Colegio de México (Colmex). Shannon K. O'Neil, Vice President of Studies and Nelson and David Rockefeller senior fellow for Latin America Studies, Council on Foreign Relations.
Moderated by Steven Levitsky, Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
Biographies
Joy Langston is profesora-investigadora of political science in the Center of International Studies-CEI of the Colegio de México. Her topics include political parties, particularly the PRI, federalism and the political power of governors, clientelism, and electoral violence. She published with Oxford University Press the book, Democratization and Authoritarian Party Survival: Mexico’s PRI. She has also published her work with the Journal of Politics, Electoral Studies, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Perspectives on Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Legislative Studies Quarterly, among others. Currently, she is working on a book project examining how clientelism has changed over the past 70 years in Mexico.
Kenneth F. Greene is an Associate Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on authoritarian regimes as well as elections and voting behavior in new democracies, with a particular emphasis on Mexico. Current research centers on vote buying and the quality of elections, arguing that democratic competition undermines political machines’ ability to buy support. His articles have appeared in Political Analysis, the American Journal of Political Science, World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, PS: Political Science and Politics, Foreign Affairs en Español, and other outlets.
Mariano Sánchez-Talanquer is an Assistant Professor in the Center for International Studies at El Colegio de México (Colmex) in Mexico City. Previously, he taught at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE) and was an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Harvard University. He holds a Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University. His research interests encompass historical political development, state-building, and political regimes. His work has been published in journals like the American Political Science Review, Journal of Democracy, Politics&Society, and Latin American Politics and Society, among others.
Shannon K. O'Neil is the Vice President of Studies and Nelson and David Rockefeller senior fellow for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is an expert on Mexico, democracy, trade, supply chains, and the Americas, and has taught at Columbia University. O'Neil has lived and worked in Mexico and Argentina, where her career began in emerging markets finance before turning to policy. She is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion and an author of two books: Two Nations Indivisible: Mexico, the United States, and the Road Ahead, on U.S. relations with Mexico, and her latest, The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter.
Steven Levitsky is David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Government and Director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard. His research focuses on democratization and authoritarianism, political parties, and weak and informal institutions, with a focus on Latin America. He is co-author (with Daniel Ziblatt) of How Democracies Die, which was a New York Times Best-Seller and was published in 25 languages. He has written or edited 12 other books, including Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press 2003), Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War (with Lucan Way) (Cambridge University Press, 2010), Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism (with Lucan Way) (Princeton University Press, 2022), and Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point (with Daniel Ziblatt) (Crown Publishers, 2023). He and Lucan Way are currently working on a book on democratic resilience across the world.
Presented in collaboration with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.