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Francisco E. González, Ph.D.

Riordan Roett Associate Professor of Latin American Studies

Based in Washington, D.C.
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Background and Education

Served as a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford; was a professorial lecturer at SAIS's Bologna Center and a lecturer in politics at St. John's College at the University of Oxford; received 2006 SAIS Excellence in Teaching Award; Ph.D., politics, University of Oxford

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Creative Destruction? Economic Crises and Democracy in Latin America (2012); Dual Transitions From Authoritarian Rule: Institutionalized Regimes in Chile and Mexico, 1970–2000 (2008); “Mexico” in Countries at the Crossroads 2009: A Survey of Democratic Governance (2010); “Mexico’s Bloody Drug Wars” in Current History (2009); “Same Dream, Different Fates: Latinos’ Inclusion/Exclusion and U.S. Democratization” in Democratization in America (2009); “Latin America in the Economics Equation—Winners and Losers: What Can Losers Do?” in China’s Expansion Into the Western Hemisphere: Implications for Latin America and the United States (2008); “Democracia dividida: México desde 2000” in Política exterior, perspectivas exteriores 2004: Los intereses de España en el mundo (2004); “A Late Democracy: Impediments to American Democratization in the Twentieth Century,” co-author, in Democratization Through the Looking Glass: Comparative Perspectives on Democratization (2003); contributed “Caudillismo,” “Democratization,” “Mexican Revolution” and “Zapatismo” to The Oxford Dictionary of Politics (2003, 2nd edition); “The United States as a Divided Democracy,” co-author, in Governing America: The Politics of a Divided Democracy (2003); articles in various journals

Regions
Latin America
Argentina
Chile
Mexico
Topics
Developing Nations
Global Financial Crises
Globalization
Elections and Foreign Policy
Energy and Security
International Immigration Issues
International Political Economy
NAFTA
Nation-building and Democratization
Foreign Languages
Spanish