Alejandro Trelles
Degrees
University of Pittsburgh, Ph.D.University of Pittsburgh, M.A.
Expertise
Comparative Politics (Latin America and the Caribbean)Elections, Electoral Management, Electoral Boundary Delimitation (redistricting), Democratization, Political Parties, Research Methodology
Personal Website (http://www.alejandrotrelles.com/)
Profile
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ALEJANDRO TRELLES is an Assistant Professor of Politics at Brandeis University. He holds a Ph.D. and a MA in political science from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA from ITAM in Mexico City. His research interests are elections, electoral management, political parties, redistricting, and representation. His most recent work focuses on the formal and informal aspects of electoral autonomy in Latin America and Africa, and the effect that electoral autonomy has for democratic stability and consolidation. He has fieldwork experience in Venezuela, Mexico, Ghana, Kenya, and Egypt. He is co-author of two political analysis books: Anatomy of the PRI (Random House, 2006) and AMLO: Political and Personal History of the Head of Government of Mexico City (Random House, 2004). He has more than fifteen years of experience working on elections and electoral management in a comparative perspective. He has worked as an independent consultant in electoral organization and constituency boundary delimitation for the Organization of American States and he is also a co-principal investigator in the Public Mapping Project Mexico (PMP). He has worked closely with Mexico’s National Electoral Institute (INE, formerly IFE) in the last decade and during the last three rounds of redistricting in the country. His research has received support from the Electoral Integrity Project in Venezuela, the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) and the African Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh, as well as support from the Norman and Tomberg Funds at Brandeis University. His work has been published in Political Geography, Electoral Studies, Latin American Politics and Society, Journal of Politics in Latin America, and Política y Gobierno.
Courses Taught
| POL | 52a | Basic Statistics for Social and Political Analysis |
| POL | 141a | Elections and Electoral Systems in Comparative Perspective |
| POL | 144a | Latin American Politics |
| POL | 161b | Good Neighbor or Imperial Power: The Contested Evolution of US-Latin American Relations |
Awards and Honors
2019. Latin American and Latin- Studies Program Research Award. Brandeis University. (2019 - 2020)
Norman and Tomberg Research Award. Department of Politics. Brandeis University (2019 - 2020)
David B. Houston Human Rights and Social Justice in Latina America Award. Center for Latin American Studies. University of Pittsburgh. (2012 - 2013)
XIII Ex ITAM Research Award for Best Dissertation in Political Science. ITAM, Mexico City. (2007 - 2008)
Scholarship
Magar, Eric, Alejandro Trelles, Micah Altman and Michael McDonald. "Components of partisan bias originating from single-member districts in multi-party systems: An application to Mexico." Political Geography 1. 57 (2017): 1-12.
Morgenstern, Scott, Noah Smith and Alejandro Trelles. "How party nationalization conditions economic voting." Electoral Studies 1. 47 (2017): 136-145.
Trelles, Alejandro. "Electoral Geography, Minority Rights and Political Representation in Mexico: 1990-2017." Fortalezas y debilidades del sistema electoral mexicano, 1990-2016. Perspectiva federal y local. First Edition ed. vol. 1 Ed. Luis Carlos Ugalde y Saíd Hernández Quintana. Mexico City: Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federación (TEPJF)., 2017. 370-399.
Polga-Hecimovich, John and Alejandro Trelles. "The Organizational Consequences of Politics: A Research Agenda for the Study of Bureaucratic Politics in Latin America." Latin American Politics and Society 58. 4 (2016): 56-79.
Trelles Alejandro, Micah Altman, Eric Magar and Michael P. McDonald. "Open Data, Transparency and Redistricting in Mexico." Política y Gobierno XXIII. 2 (2016): 331-364.
Trelles, Alejandro and Diego Martínez. "Electoral Boundaries. Lessons for California from Mexico´s Redistricting Experience." Política y Gobierno XIX. 2 (2012): 199-241.
Trelles, Alejandro and Miguel Carreras. "Bullets and Votes: Violence and Political Participation in Mexico." Journal of Politics in Latin America 4. 2 (2012): 89-123.
Trelles, Alejandro and Héctor Zagal. Anatomy of the PRI. First Edition ed. Mexico City: Plaza y Janés (Random HouseMondadori), 2006.
Trelles, Alejandro and Héctor Zagal. AMLO, Historical and Political Account of Mexico City´s Mayor. First Edition ed. Mexico City: Plaza y Janés (Random House-Mondadori), 2004.
Trelles, Alejandro. "The Political, Economic, and Social Impact of Constitutional Law." Rev. of La importancia de las reglas: Gobierno y empresarios después de la nacionalización bancaria, by Carlos Elizondo Mayer-Serra. Politica y Gobierno vol. IX 09/11/2002: 497-501.