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Austin, Texas Area United States

Doctoral Candidate in Political Science

Education

I am a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in comparative politics and international relations. I have been a graduate student at UT since 2011, and a doctoral candidate since 2014. My research focuses on social policies and party system institutionalization, and the ways they are associated to social mobilization in Latin America. I am also interested in the role international organizations play in promoting democracy in the region. My doctoral dissertation focuses on the ways changes in higher education policy, and the linkages between student organizations and political parties, cause higher education student protests in Latin America since the third wave...