Beatriz Magaloni

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Beatriz Magaloni-Kerpel
Born
Mexico City
Alma mater Duke University (Ph.D)
ITAM (B.A.)
Known for Competitive authoritarianism
Criminal Governance
Scientific career
Fields Political science
Institutions Stanford University (2001–Present)

Beatriz Magaloni is a political scientist. She is the Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations, Professor of Political Science, and a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. [1] Since 2021, Magaloni is also a Non-resident fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace [2]

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Education

Magaloni graduated from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México in law in 1989. She was awarded PhD in political science by Duke University in 1997.

Career

After her time as a visiting professor at University of California, Los Angeles and professor at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, she joined Stanford as an Assistant Professor of Political Science in 2001. In 2010, she founded the Poverty, Violence and Governance Lab at Stanford University, where she was the director as of 2022. [3] In 2018, she was promoted to full Professor at the Department of Political Science, Stanford University. In 2021, she was appointed the Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations at that same university. Since 2021, Magaloni is also a Non-resident fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Research field

Magaloni’s work has gained considerable international recognition for its substantial contributions to both comparative politics and criminology. Her research interests include authoritarian regimes, violence, human rights, poverty alleviation, distribution of public goods, and indigenous governance. It mainly concentrates on Latin America. [3] [4] In particular, she conducted research in Brazil and Mexico. [5] [6]

Awards and international recognition

Magaloni's first book Voting for Autocracy: Hegemonic Party Survival and its Demise in Mexico (2006), was awarded the 2007 Leon Epstein Award for the Best Book published in the previous two years in the area of political parties and organizations and winner of the Best Book Award from the Comparative Democratization Section of the American Political Science Association.

Since then, Magaloni’s work increasingly shifted to a focus on poverty alleviation and criminal governance with an empirical focus on Mexico and Brazil. Magaloni was awarded the 2021 Heinz I. Eulau Award for the best article published in American Political Science Review for her paper “Killing in the Slums: The Problems of Social Order, Criminal Governance and Police Violence in Rio de Janeiro” (2020) (co-authored with Edgar Franco and Vanessa Melo).

In the fall of 2022, Magaloni was announced as the 2023 Winner of the Stockholm Criminology Prize, the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in Criminology for her work on police violence in Mexico and Brazil. The jury motivated the award by highlighting that Magaloni is:

“ (…) the leading scholar in the world for demonstrating that major changes in policing can increase compliance with the rule of law under the challenges of high violence levels and strong popular demand to reduce crime" [7]

Selected publications

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References

  1. "Dra. Beatriz Magaloni Kerpel" (in Spanish). Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México.
  2. "Beatriz Magaloni". Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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  5. Wenner, Alice (30 June 2020). "Police Reform in Brazil and Mexico: What Works, What Doesn't, and What the U.S. Can Learn". Stanford University.
  6. "Experiment in Rio: Pacification Units". Stanford Magazine. 1 November 2016.
  7. "2023 Winner of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology". Stockholm University.