JUAN FERNANDO IBARRA DEL CUETO
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EDUCATION
• PhD candidate in Political Science (expected Spring 2016). University of Chicago.
Committee: Dan Slater (chair), Lisa Wedeen, and Alberto Simpser.
• Master of Arts in Political Science. University of Chicago.
• Bachelor of Arts in Public Administration. El Colegio de México.
PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
Monographs:• Instituciones Políticas, Competencia Electoral y Desempeño de Gobierno en Municipios Mexicanos, México, Instituto Electoral del Distrito Federal, 2005.
Manuscripts in progress:
• Paths Out of Patrimonialism. The Political Economy of State Building in 20th Century Latin America. (Manuscript in Progress).
• Más allá de la norma. Transparencia sustantiva en órganos autónomos de México. (Co-edited with Alejandra Ríos Cázares. In Progress).
Peer-reviewed articles and book chapters:
• The Political Economy of Social Spending by Local Government: A Study of the 3x1 Program in Mexico. Latin American Research Review, 51:1, 2016 (with Alberto Simpser, Lauren Duquette and José Antonio Hernández).
• Notas para una discusión sobre el desarrollo reciente y perspectivas de reforma del gobierno local en México, en José Francisco Parra y Antonia Martínez, El Estado postransicional en México. Un análisis sobre los cambios políticos y sus efectos en actores e instituciones. Madrid, Fundación Ortega y Gasset, 2010.
• Competencia Electoral, Gasto Público y Provisión de Servicios en Municipios Mexicanos, en María del Carmen Pardo (coord.), Nuevas Tendencias en la Teoría y la Práctica de la Administración y las Políticas Públicas, México, El Colegio de México, 2009.
• La Competencia Electoral y su Impacto en el Desempeño Hacendario de los Municipios en México, Foro Internacional, 46:2, 2006. (with Fernanda Somuano and Reynaldo Ortega).
Articles in progress:
experienced an accelerated process of economic convergence, which
homogeneized in relative terms the levels of development in the country. After 1990, however, this pattern has changed considerably and the gap between rich and poor States seems to have widened. In the few contributions that have aimed to explain these changes, they are interpreted as being the product of economic liberalization, which allowed some states to better exploit the opportunities associated with access to new markets and foreign investment. In contrast with this purely economic explanation based on the factor endowments of each state, I argue that the interaction of political competition with patterns of institutional building at the local level—factors that have coincided temporally with economic liberalization—have had a significant effect on the contrasting paths of economic development followed by Mexican states during the last quarter century.
• The Political Origins of Subnational Authoritarianism (with Alberto Simpser). We propose a novel theory to explain the persistence of authoritarian enclaves within democratic countries. We argue that subnational authoritarianism generally emerges as the consequence of a shift in the balance of power between center and periphery, often coinciding with democratization at the national level. During this shift, local incumbents are able to extract concessions from the center in the form of economic resources and political authority, in proportion with their political importance to the center. Over time, these concessions constitute the foundation for subnational authoritarian rule as they enable local rulers to weather local democratizing pressures by using these resources to reduce their fiscal dependence on their constituents, co-opt and repress opponents, and resist democratizing pressures from subsequent national governments.
ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
• Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE). Professor. Public Administration Department. (August 2011 – August 2015)
COURSES TAUGHT
Courses:• Epistemology Seminar. PhD in Public Policy. Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE.)
• State-Society Relations. PhD in Public Policy. Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE.)
• Comparative Public Policy. PhD in Public Policy. Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE.)
• Research Methods Seminar. Masters in Public Policy and Administration. Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE.)
• Federalism and Local Government. Masters in Public Management. Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE.)
• Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations. BA in Politics and Public Administration. El Colegio de México.
• Comparative Politics of 20th Century Latin America. Course for Latin American Studies’ Majors at the University of Chicago.
• BA Colloquium for Latin American Majors. University of Chicago.
Professional courses:
• Quantitative tools for monitoring and evaluation systems. Course designed for members of the Guatemalan Public Service. San Carlos University, Guatemala City, May 2014.
• Impact Evaluation. Course designed for functionaries of the National Institute for Educative Evaluation (INEE). Mexico City, October 2013.
• Evidence Based Public Policy. Public Policy and Evaluation Certification Program. Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) and Centro CLEAR. March 2013.
• Policy Evaluation as a Development Tool. Course designed for federal and provincial functionaries of the Republic of Argentina. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
September 2012.
THESES ADVISED
PhD:• Capacidad institucional y efectividad de las de las alianzas público-privadas en infraestructura de carreteras: un análisis del desarrollo carretero en en la alianza del pacífico. Mónica María Sinisterra. PhD in Public Policy. Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas.
(CIDE). In Progress.
Masters:
• Factores del hogar asociados al doble perfil: la coexistencia de desnutrición y sobrepeso en hogares mexicanos. Lucía Félix Beltrán. Masters in Public Policy and Administration. Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), 2014.
• El cumplimiento de las instituciones presupuestarias como determinante de la eficiencia de los gobiernos estatales en el uso de aportaciones. Masters in Public Policy and Administration.
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), 2014.
• Incidencia de la autonomía financiera, las capacidades administrativas y el diseño institucional en la contratación de de deuda pública municipal. Masters in Public Policy and Administration. Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), 2013.
• Relaciones intergubernamentales en políticas de equidad educativa elaborando un modelo de cooperación. Guadalupe Goyeneche Souto. Masters in Public Policy and Administration. Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), 2013.
• Implementación de la política de residuos sólidos en el Distrito Federal. Norma Patricia Reyes.
Masters in Public Policy and Administration. Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), 2012.
THESES COMMITTEES
PhD:• De la discriminación a la baja productividad: el papel del acceso al crédito en México. Ana Martínez Gutiérrez. PhD in Public Policy. Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas. (CIDE). In Progress.
• Estructuración y cambio de los sistemas y los instrumentos de gobernanza local:
una comparación de trayectorias en la política urbana en el Distrito Federal (México) y en Sao Paulo (Brasil). Dionisio Zabaleta Solís. PhD in Public Policy.
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas. (CIDE). In Progress.
• Regímenes urbanos y políticas de movilidad. El caso de la adopción del BRT en Guadalajara y Monterrey. Manlio Felipe Castillo Salas. PhD in Public Policy.
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas. (CIDE). In Progress.
Masters:
• La interacción entre instituciones formales e informales en el marco de la gestión de recursos comunes: el caso de la FEDECOP. Masters in Public Policy and Administration.
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), 2012.
NON-ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
• Tetra Tech ARD. (April – June 2015). External Consultant for the development of a proposal to bid for the operation of the USAID funded program “Juntos para la prevención de la violencia” in Mexico.
• Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas. (January - December 2014).
External Evaluator. Institutional Transparency Analysis Project. Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI).
• Alternativas y Capacidades, AC. (May 2005 – August 2005). External Consultant.
• Programa de Desarrollo Humano Oportunidades. (April 2003 – April 2005).
Head of the Social Analysis Department.
• Presidencia de la República. (August 2002 – February 2003). Policy Analyst for the Strategic Planning and Regional Develpment Office.
SCHOLARSHIPS
• CONACYT scholarship for doctoral studies. (September 2006 – June 2011).
• Fulbright-García Robles scholarship (September 2006 – June 2008).
• Barsa scholarship of the Institute of International Education (September 2006 – June 2007).
• Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant (2009-2010 academic year).
• University of Chicago Fellowship Award (September 2006 – June 2010).
SERVICE
• Counselor of the Inter-American Network for Public Administration Education (INPAE).
• Pro-bono advisor of the Citizens’ Coalition for Education (Mexico).
• Referee for the following journals:
o Foro Internacional.
o Gestión y Política Pública.
o Perfiles Latinoamericanos.
o Latin American Politics and Society.
• Monograph manuscript referee for:
o International Institute for Sustainable Development.
o Centro CLEAR.
o El Colegio Mexiquense.
LANGUAGES
• English: (100%).
• French: (80%). DALF 1 and 2 Diplomas obtained in 2004.
• Spanish: Native.
