about me

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Houston. I study comparative politics focusing on Latin American Politics. I specialize in political methodology.

My research interests focus on Venezuelan and Latin American Politics, Quantitative Methods and  Public Administration.

latest conference presentations

date conference name article title
June 11-14, 2009 LASA "Party Institutionalization and the Dynamics of Political Discourse"
June 11-14, 2009 LASA "Legislative Parties in Volatile Non-Programmatic Party Systems" with Eduardo Aleman and Aldo Ponce
April 2-5, 2009 MPSA "What are they talking about? Clustering texts by using words and MFS"
April 2-5, 2009 MPSA "Committee Success in Fragmented Congresses" with Ernesto Calvo

Vitae

Here you can find a copy of my CV

Current research

My dissertation project is aimed at understanding when politicians dialogue. In particular I want to understand what strategic considerations result in politicians engaging in dialogue.

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