As of August 2011 I will be Lecturer in Comparative Politics in the Politics Department at the University of Glasgow in Scotland.
I obtained my Ph.D. in the Department of Political Science at the University of Houston in May 2010. After graduation I worked for two years as a Post-Doc at the Center for Experimental Social Sciences at Nuffield College in the University of Oxford.
Broadly speaking my research interests focus on Comparative Politics and Quantitative Methods. Whithin these I am interested in, but not limited to, Political Communication, Political Dialogue, Parties and Party Systems, Legislatures, and Content Analysis.
My current research is focused in understanding Political Dialogue. In particular the effect Party Institutionalization has on the dynamics of dialogue. I am also working on understanding the evolution of the Venezuelan party system pre and post collapse. Other research projects involve developing and using content analysis techniques for understanding different political problems (such as issue attention in political speeches, court decisions, etc).