Gustavo Guajardo
Hi, my name is Gustavo Guajardo and I am a Ph.D. candidate at Rice University, expecting to defend my dissertation in Spring 2025. My research agenda explores how corruption and accountability intersect with electoral institutions, legislative behavior, and representation, with a regional focus in Latin America. In my research, I employ large-n observational data analysis, causal inference, natural experiments, and elite interviews from fieldwork experiences in Mexico. My work has been published or is forthcoming in the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, and has been invited to be revised and resubmitted to Legislative Studies Quarterly. My dissertation explores the conditions under which politicians advance anticorruption reform with the support of the American Political Science Association's NSF-funded Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant.
Before coming to Rice, I completed my B.A. in Political Science at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (Mexico City).
Before coming to Rice, I completed my B.A. in Political Science at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (Mexico City).