Public Lecture: Mexico 2012 Election Outlook
Speaker: Ricardo Raphael, Political Analyst and Professor at CIDE sponsored by the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies
Wednesday, May 9
5:00 PM
Location: UC San Diego, Institute of the Americas Complex, Weaver Center
Reception Following
Event is open to the public and there is no cost of admission
Ricardo Raphael is a journalist and political analyst at the news Informational 40 and Focus, host of Spiral of Once TV Mexico, and a columnist for El Universal and sinembargo.mx. He is the author of The Other Mexico (2011), To Understand the Public Institution (Nostra Editions, 2007), Elba Esther partners (Planeta, 2007), coordinator of the Mexico Outraged (Destiny, 2011) and co-author of The Untouchables (Focus Today, 2008) and The Sighing 2012 (Topics of Today, 2011).
He is a professor at CIDE (Mexico City) in the Division of Public Administration Research and Teaching in Economics and Coordinator of the Master in Journalism and Public Affairs at the same institution. He obtained his law degree from UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México). He received a masters in political science from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, France (Sciences Po), and a masters in public administration from the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA) of the French Republic. His doctoral studies were in Political Economy and Comparative Politics from the graduate school in Claremont, California, United States. He has published several papers on issues related to the transition to democracy, the public, the party system, rights, economic development and citizenship.
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