CV - Francisco Garfias
Francisco Garfias Contact Information School of Global Policy and Strategy University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Dr. #0519 La Jolla, CA 92093 Academic Appointment University of California, San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy Assistant Professor of Political Science Education www.franciscogarfias.com [email protected] +1.650.283.3091 July 2016– Stanford University Ph.D., Political Science Fields: Comparative Politics, Political Methodology 2016 M.A., Economics 2014 Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México B.A., Political Science, Honors B.A., Economics, Honors 2011 2011 Research Interests Comparative political economy, state capacity, taxation, social conflict, Latin American politics, econometrics. Publications “Government Performance, Taxation and Fiscal Accountability: Evidence from Brazil.” World Development Vol. 70 (June 2015): 13-27, with Jeffrey Timmons. Working Papers “Elite Competition and State Capacity Development: Theory and Evidence from PostRevolutionary Mexico.” “Elite Coalitions, Limited Government and Fiscal Capacity Development: Evidence from Bourbon Mexico.” “Can You Hear Me Now?: How Communication Technology Affects Protest and Repression,” with Darin Christensen. “Taking to the Streets: Theory and Evidence on Protests under Authoritarianism,” with Ruth Kricheli, Yair Livne, and Beatriz Magaloni. “Property Rights and Violence in Rural Mexico,” with Dorothy Kronick. Other publications “Cuando hay marchas la calidad del aire en la Ciudad de México mejora.” Nexos, Blog de la redacción (April, 2016). “Corrupción en las compras gubernamentales.” Nexos (September, 2015). “El efecto de las resoluciones del IFT: sin evidencia para festejar.” Animal Polı́tico (March 19, 2014). “Análisis comparativo sobre los programas para adultos mayores en México.” Serie Polı́ticas Sociales 161, ECLAC (2010), with Gloria Rubio. 1 of 2 Grants and Awards Fiona McGillivray Best Paper Award 2015, APSA Political Economy Section, for “Elite Competition and State Capacity Development: Theory and Evidence from Post-Revolutionary Mexico” 2016 I-Award, Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies 2016 The Alejandro and Lida Zaffaroni Graduate Fellowship 2011–2016 Graduate Research Opportunity Fund Winter 2014 Conferences Challenges to Inclusion and Representation in Latin America, Stanford 2016 and Workshops Berkeley/Stanford Workshop in Political Economy 2014, 2015, 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association 2011, 2013, 2015 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association 2012, 2015 Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) Politics Workshop 2015 UCLA Tax Policy & Public Finance Colloquium 2014 University of Wisconsin–Madison, Workshop on the Mexican Land Reform 2013 Teaching Teaching Assistant, Political Methodology II (Ph.D. course) Instructor: Jens Hainmueller Teaching Assistant, Political Methodology III (Ph.D. course) Instructors: Jens Hainmueller & Adam Bonica Teaching Assistant, Political Methodology II (Ph.D. course) Instructor: Simon Jackman Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Comparative Politics Instructor: Jeremy Weinstein Instructor, Mathematics, Gabino A. Palma Middle School, Mexico City Winter 2015 Spring 2014 Winter 2012 Fall 2012 Spring 2010 Other Research Experience Statistical Software consultant, Social Science Data & Software, Stanford 2014–2015 Research Assistant to Beatriz Magaloni, Stanford Summer 2013 Research Assistant to Jeffrey Timmons, ITAM 2009–2010 Project Assistant, CONAPO, Mexico 2009 Research Assistant to Eric Magar, ITAM Fall 2008 Skills Language: Spanish (native speaker) Software: Stata, R, ArcGis, LATEX References Beatriz Magaloni, Stanford University Kenneth Scheve, Stanford University Stephen Haber, Stanford University Jens Hainmueller, Stanford University (Updated 07/2016) 2 of 2 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
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