Prior to joining Stanford in 2001, she was a Visiting Professor at UCLA and was a Professor of Political Science at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Mexico. She won the American Political Science Association’s Gabriel Almond Award for the Best Dissertation in Comparative Politics in 1998. Her book, Voting for Autocracy: Hegemonic Party Survival and its Demise in Mexico (Cambridge University Press) won the Leon Epstein Award in 2007 for the best book published in the previous two years in the area of political parties and organizations and the best book award given by the Comparative Democratization section of the American Political Science Association. Dr. Magaloni’s research interests include authoritarianism, democracy and regime transitions; political economy of development; and Latin American politics.