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Beatriz Magaloni Appointed Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations
News / November 1, 2021
The professorship is named in honor of Stanford’s first faculty member in international relations and was previously held by former CDDRL Director Steve Krasner.
Professor Beatriz Magaloni Wins the 2021 Heinz I. Eulau Award for Best Article Published in American Political Science Review
News / June 30, 2021
The award-winning article is entitled “Killing in the Slums: Social Order, Criminal Governance and Police Violence in Rio de Janeiro.” Professor Magaloni coauthored the article with Edgar Franco-Vivanco, who earned his Ph.D. from Stanford and is now at the University of Michigan; and with Vanessa Melo, a graduate student in Anthropology at UCLA.
CDDRL researchers study how to reduce deadly police force in Rio de Janeiro
News / December 14, 2015
Stanford researchers seek better strategies to control the lethal use of police force in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Their findings offer implications for police and communities elsewhere, as the researchers are studying how social and psychological factors affect police and how body-worn cameras can be used most efficiently.
In striving to understand and to curb the use of lethal force by police in Rio de Janeiro's poorest neighborhoods, Stanford researchers seek to help inform the widespread debate about police conduct and behavior.
The Program on Poverty and Governance releases report on Mexico's elections
News / October 10, 2012
Who voted for who in the last Mexican presidential elections? CDDRL's Program on Poverty and Governance released the study The 2012 Electoral Geography examining the electoral results from the 2012 Mexican presidential election.
Cuéllar, Magaloni on Iranian assassination plot and link to Mexican cartels
News / October 14, 2011
As if the alleged Iranian plan to kill Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the U.S. wasn’t strange and sinister enough, it offered an outlandish twist: American officials say the Iranian plotters wanted to hire a Mexican drug cartel to carry out the murder. FSI’s Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar and Beatriz Magaloni discuss the developing events.
Mexico conference to draw international experts
News / August 24, 2011
On October 3 and 4, the Program on Poverty and Governance at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law will co-sponsor a conference examining the issues of violence, drugs, and governance in Mexico from a comparative perspective.
Chiapas research examines women and governance
News / August 23, 2011
We sat down with recipient of the FSI Global Underdevelopment Action Fund, Professor Beatriz Magaloni to learn more about her research plans and how her work will address the larger issues of poverty and governance in Latin America and beyond.