I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tecnológico de Monterrey, researching electoral institutions and participation; various forms of inequality; and democratic erosion. I earned my PhD at Yale in December 2021 and I was formerly a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton’s Center for the Study of Democratic Politics and Vanderbilt’s Latin American Public Opinion Project.
My book project, Can Compulsory Voting Strengthen Democracy?, examines the potential for compulsory voting laws to improve the quality and resilience of democracy. Drawing on a wide variety of methods and extensive new data collection on how countries implement mandatory voting laws, I show that compulsory voting is one of the best tools available to promote political equality. I also study the institution’s implications for partisanship, polarization, and attitudes towards democracy.
My research has been published in Comparative Political Studies, British Journal of Political Science, PS: Political Science and Politics, and Latin American Research Review.
I teach courses on game theory, political economy, experiments, and public opinion.