麻豆传媒

I am a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics focused on comparative political behaviour, survey, and experimental research. I am also the Politics Postgraduate Research co-Director (with Dr. Nick Randall).

I have been involved in large survey projects like the Mexican National Elections Study that is part of the . I am a member of the editorial board. I have served as  Associate Editor of the  and . I am a member of the  

I am interested in supervising postgraduate research students in the area of political psychology focused on electoral behaviour, campaign communication, electoral polls, emotions, prejudice. 

Qualifications

PhD University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Previous Appointments

Associate professor, Political Science,  (1/12/2016 -31/7/2019)

Visiting Scholar,  (01/03/2017-31/12/2018)

Visiting Scholar,  (01/01/2018-31/12/2018)

Research in Excellence Fellow, Central European University (CEU) (24/01/2017-31/07/2017)

Assistant professor, Political Science, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) (1/7/2010 - 31/12/2017)

Postdoctoral Fellow, , (01/09/2009-30/06/2010)

My research looks at the interaction of prejudice and context on people’s political behaviour. For example, using experimental methods I have looked at the influence of candidates and voters' racial appearance (phenotypes) as well as gender on voters' preferences in Brazil, Mexico, and the U.S.A. I have also looked at the effect of party labels in Mexico and Uganda. I have analyzed the role of emotions as moderators of political judgment in Hungary.

I am also working in  projects related to survey and experimental methods. I am interested in investigated the factors that affect the level of accuracy in pre-electoral polls across different contexts. Currently I am developing a project on motivated reasoning in the UK with . 

I also enjoy teaching. I have previously taught different courses: 1) Introduction to Comparative Politics; 2) Psychological Processes of Racial Prejudice in the U.S.A.; 3) Construction of Mexico's National Identity and Racial Ideology; 4) Public Opinion and Political Behavior; and 5) Political Psychology and Experimental Methods.

麻豆传媒

POL3124 : Mexican Politics: Authoritarianism & Democracy

• Articles

  • Aguilar R, Hughes DA, Gell-Redman M. . Political Behavior 2019, 41(1), 187-207.
  • Aguilar R, Carlin R. . Swiss Political Science Review 2017, 23(4), 404-422.
  • Conroy-Krutz J, Moehler D, Aguilar R. . Comparative Political Studies 2016, 49(1), 3-35.
  • Aguilar R, Cunow S, Desposato S. . Electoral Studies 2015, 39, 230-242.
  • Aguilar R, Cunow S, Desposato S, Barone L. . Latin American Research Review 2015, 50, 176-201.

• Book Chapters

  • Aguilar R, Conroy-Krutz J. . In: Suhay, L; Grofman, B; Trechsel, AH, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Electoral Persuasion. Oxford University Press, 2019.
  • Aguilar R, Carlin R. . In: Hawkins,KA;Carlin,RE;Littvay,L; Rovira Kaltwasser,C, ed. The Ideational Approach to Populism: Concept, Theory and Method. New York, NY, USA: Routledge, 2018, pp.396-418.
  • Aguilar R. . In: Desposato S, ed. Ethics and Experiments Problems and Solutions for Social Scientists and Policy Professionals. New York: Routledge, 2016, pp.139-148.