Research Interests

Transparency and accountability, democratization, governance and participation, social and environmental policy, transnational civil society, immigration and youth civic/political engagement. Current projects address international open government reforms, social accountability, transparency and accountability in Mexican rural development policy, and Latino civic participation.

Selected Publications

• [co-authored with Xochitl Bada] “Patrones migratorios en contextos de ruralidad y marginacion en el campo mexicano, 2000-2010: Cambios y continuidades,” [Migration and Poverty Trends in Rural Mexico, 2000-2010] Revista ALASRU, No. 10, Oct., 2014
• "Social Accountability: What Does the Evidence Really Say?," GPSA Working Paper, No. 1, Sept. 2014 (Global Partnership for Social Accountability)
• “Speaking of International T/A Initiatives & CSO Researcher Dialogue,” Think Piece, Transparency and Accountability Initiative, Nov. 2013
• "Las políticas públicas hacia la agricultura y su relación con el empleo,” [Public Policy Towards Agriculture and Employment"] in OXFAM México, El derecho a la alimentacio?n en Me?xico: Recomendaciones de la sociedad civil para una política pública efectiva, Mexico, Oct., 2013
• “Migrantes mexicanos indigenas,” in Tanalis Padilla, ed., El campesinado y su persistencia en la actualidad mexicana, Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica/Conaculta, 2013
• Co-editor, Oaxacalifornian Reporting Team, Voices of Indigenous Oaxacan Youth in the Central Valley: Creating Our Sense of Belonging in California, UC Center for Collaborative Research for an Equitable California, 2013.
• "State Power and Clientelism: Eight Propositions for Discussion,” in Tina Hilgers, ed., Clientelism in Everyday Latin American Politics, Palgrave, 2012.
• Co-author, “Proporcionar transparencia ¿Hasta qué punto responde el gobierno mexicano a las solicitudes de información pública?” Gestión y política pública, 20(1), 2011.
• Co-editor, Subsidizing Inequality: Mexican Corn Policy Since NAFTA, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars/CIDE/UC Santa Cruz, 2010.
• Co-editor, Context Matters: Latino Civic Engagement in Nine U.S. Cities, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2010.
• Co-author, “Rural Democratization in Mexico’s Deep South: Grassroots Right-to-Know Campaigns in Guerrero,” Journal of Peasant Studies, 36(2), 2009.
• Co-author, “Migrant Organization and Hometown Impacts in Rural Mexico,” Journal of Agrarian Change, 8(2-3), May, 2008.
• Accountability Politics: Power and Voice in Rural Mexico, Oxford University Press, 2007.
• Co-editor, Mexico’s Right-to-Know Reforms: Civil Society Perspectives, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars/Fundar, 2007.

Honors, Awards, and Fellowships

• Adaljiza Sosa-Ridell Mentoring Award for Exemplary Mentoring of Graduate Students in Political Science, 2013
• LASA/OXFAM 2004 Martin Diskin Memorial Lectureship

Multimedia

• Co-editor, Subsidios al Campo, 3.0 version to launch September 2013.