Joy Langston

Joy Langston is profesora-investigadora of political science  in the Center of International Studies-CEI of the Colegio de México. Her topics include political parties, particularly the PRI, federalism and the political power of governors, clientelism, and electoral violence. She published with Oxford University Press the book, Democratization and Authoritarian Party Survival: Mexico’s PRI. She has also published her work with the Journal of Politics, Electoral Studies, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Perspectives on Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Legislative Studies Quarterly, among others. Currently, she is working on a book project examining how clientelism has changed over the past 70 years in Mexico.