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Alberto Diaz-Cayeros
Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Professor, by courtesy, of Political Science
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Ph.D., Duke University, Political Science (1997)
M.A., Duke University, Political Science (1993)
Licenciatura, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Economics (1990)
Alberto Diaz-Cayeros joined the FSI faculty in 2013. He was the Director of the Center for Latin American Studies from 2016 to 2023. From 2008 to 2013 he was Associate Professor at the University of California, San Diego, and Director of the Center for US-Mexico Studies. He was an assistant professor of political science at Stanford from 2001-2008, before which he served as an assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Diaz-Cayeros has also served as a researcher at Centro de Investigacion Para el Desarrollo, A.C. in Mexico from 1997-1999. He earned his Ph.D at Duke University in 1997. His work has focused on federalism, poverty and violence in Latin America, and Mexico in particular. He has published widely in Spanish and English. His book Federalism, Fiscal Authority and Centralization in Latin America was published by Cambridge University Press in 2007 (reprinted 2016). His latest book (with Federico Estevez and Beatriz Magaloni) is: The Political Logic of Poverty Relief Electoral Strategies and Social Policy in Mexico (2016).
