Denise Dresser

Denise Dresser

Denise Eugenia Dresser Guerra (born January 22, 1963 ) is a Mexican political analyst, writer and university professor. Currently (2009) she is a member of the Faculty of Political Science at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), where she has taught Comparative Politics, Political Economy, and Mexican Politics since 1991.

academic career

After completing her bachelor's degree in 1985 from El Colegio de México and her master 's degree in political science in 1987 from Princeton University , she earned her doctorate in politics in 1994. She has received grants from the Ford Foundation , the Rockefeller Foundation , the Institute for World Politics, the Center for International Studies at Princeton University, and the Organization of American States . In 1993 she was named Junior Third World Scholar by the International Studies Association.

She has taught at Georgetown University and the University of California, Berkeley . Dresser is a Fellow at the School of Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles , Visiting Fellow at the Center for US-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego , Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for International Studies at the University of Southern California , Senior Visiting Fellow at the Inter-American Dialog in Washington, DC, and Fellow at the Salzburg Seminar .

Work and appearances

Dresser is the author of numerous publications on Mexican politics and US-Mexican relations, including Neopopulist Solutions to Neoliberal Problems: Mexico's National Solidarity Program , Exporting Conflict: Transboundary Consequences of Mexican Politics , Treading Lightly and Without a Stick: International Actors and the Promotion of Democracy in Mexico , Falling From the Tightrope: The Political Economy of the Mexican Crisis and Mexico: From PRI Predominance to Divided Democracy .

She has published articles in the Journal of Democracy , Current History , the Harvard International Journal of Press and Politics, and in Foreign Policy . She writes a political column for the Mexican newspaper Reforma and Proceso Weekly News and hosted the political talk show "Entre Versiones" on Mexican television. She has served as a political analyst on numerous radio and TV programs, including Mesa Política with José Gutiérrez vivo and El cristal con que se mira with Víctor Trujillo. Dresser is co-editor of the Los Angeles Times and has contributed to numerous articles for the New York Times and La Opinión . She is also a frequent commentator on Mexican politics in the US and the Canadian media. She also worked as an advisor to the United Nations Development Program , Barings Research, and the Bank of Montreal. Dresser is a member of the Research Council of the Forum for Democratic Studies, the National Foundation for Democracy , the World Academy for Art and Science, the Advisory Board of the Trans-National Research Corporation, the editors of the Latin American Research Review, the Advisory Board of the Human Rights Commission , the Global Affairs Board Occidental College, the board of the General Service Foundation and the Advisory Board of the Fondo de Cultura Económica . She is a member of the citizens' committee investigating the so-called " dirty war " in Mexico and is currently also on the board of the Mexico City Commission on Human Rights.

She is editing a bestseller collection of articles by prominent Mexican women entitled Gritos y susurros: experiencias intempestivas de 38 mujeres and produced a TV documentary based on the book. Her most recent publication, in collaboration with the writer Jorge Volpi, is a book on political satire: México: lo que todo ciudadano quisiera (no) saber de su patria .

Publications (selection)

• Chapter from How Great Women Lead, edited by Bonnie St. John and Darcy Deane, New York: Center Street, 2012.
• El país de uno: reflexiones para entender y cambiar a México, México, Editorial Aguilar, 2011
• “Hoy Toca” en Díalogos con Germán Dehesa, México, Editorial La Gunilla, 2011.
• “Monopolios y desarrollo democrático”, Enrique Florescano (coord.), La privatización de lo público, 2010.
• “Mexico: Drugs and Democracy,” Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies, June 2009.
• Gritos y susurros II: Experiencias intempestivas de otras 39 mujeres, México, Santillana, 2009.
• “Democracia de baja calidad”, Revista Mexicana de Comunicación, Ano 21, no. 114, 2008.
• “Tiempo de coraje moral”, in Adiós a las trampas, México, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2008.
• “Wed Julieta, Revista de la Universidad”, October 2007.
• “El periodismo forever”, Revista de la Universidad, February 2007.
• “El gobierno de Vicente Fox: Un balance informado y necesario”, Nexos, 349, enero 2007.
• “Mexico 2006: A House Divided,” Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies, November 2006.           
• “México 2006: una casa dividida”, Pensamiento de los confines, Buenos Aires, Fondo de Cultura Económica, number 19, diciembre de 2006.
• “Yo, ciudadana, en En voz alta: testimonios de medio siglo”, México, ISSSTE, 2006.
• Con Jorge Volpi, México: lo que todo ciudadano (no) quisiera saber sobre su patria, México, Aguilar Nuevo Siglo, 2006.
• “México: cojeando hacia atrás,” Revuelta, No. 1, 2006.
• “Reformar para gobernar”, en Manuel Camacho Solís y Diego Valadés (coordinadores), “Gobernabilidad democrática: qué reforma?”, México: UNAM, 2005.
• “Mexico under Fox,” Current History, February 2005.
• “Dilemas de la Democracia Dividida”, en Alejandro Poiré, Federico Estévez y Alejandro Moreno, (coords.), México 2003, Editorial Planeta.
• Gritos y susurros: Experiencias Intempestivas de 38 mujeres, (coordinadora), México: Grijalbo, 2004.
• "Latin American Leaders: From Boyfriends to Husbands," Inter-American Dialogue, 2003.
• Book review, Asalto a Palacio, by Guillermo Cantú, in Foreign Policy, January / February 2002.
• Mexico Transforming, Pacific Council on International Policy, 2000 (Member of the drafting team that produced the monograph).
• Book review, La Herencia: Arqueologia de la Sucesion Presidencial en Mexico by Jorge G. Castaneda, in Foreign Policy, No. 116, case 1999.
• “Mexico After the July 6 Election: Neither Heaven nor Hell”, Current History, February 1998.
• Book review, “Salinas y su Imperio” by Julio Scherer in Foreign Policy, Number 110, Spring 1998.
• “Mexico: Uneasy, Uncertain, Unpredictable”, Current History, February 1997.
• "Five Scenarios for Mexico," Journal of Democracy, Vol. 5, No. 3, July 1994.
• Neopopulist Solutions to Neoliberal Problems: Mexico's National Solidarity Program, Current Issue Brief, La Jolla: Center for US-Mexican Studies, No. 3, 1991.
• “La Nueva Política Mexicana en Estados Unidos”, Estados Unidos: Informe Trimestral, México: Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, Vol. I, Núm. October-December 1991, 4.

Web links

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