Luis Estrada

Luis Estrada is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at UCSD, 2004-2005.

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Expertise: Voting behavior; public opinion; campaigns and elections; survey design and analysis; applied statistics; game theory.
Regions of interest: Mexico, United States, post-Communist countries, newly emerged democracies.
Current project: Party Identification in Mexico (awarded with the UCMEXUS dissertation grant 2003-2005).
Academic background: Luis Estrada earned his BA degree in Political Science from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) at Mexico City in 1999. Before starting his doctoral studies, Estrada worked at the Survey Research Unit at the Office of the President of Mexico from 1998 to 2000 where he was in charge of designing surveys that kept track of gubernatorial races in Mexico, delivering weekly reports to the President. Estrada has taught Basic Game Theory at ITAM, and has been a teaching assistant for several courses at UCSD, including Politics in Mexico (twice), Mass Media and Politics, Economic Theories of Voting Behavior, Urban Politics, Politics in Los Angeles, and Introduction to American Politics. He accepted the invitation to teach the course Politics in Mexico at UCSD scheduled for Spring 2005.

LUIS ESTRADA

Luis Estrada is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at UCSD, 2004-2005.

Expertise: Voting behavior; public opinion; campaigns and elections; survey design and analysis; applied statistics; game theory.

Regions of interest: Mexico, United States, post-Communist countries, newly emerged democracies.

Current project: Party Identification in Mexico (awarded with the UCMEXUS dissertation grant 2003-2005).