Ángel Torres Guevara

Welcome to my website!

I am a PhD candidate in Government at the University of Essex. My doctoral research explores the causes and consequences of the provision of goods and services by criminal organizations in Mexico. I combine fieldwork with quantitative methods to investigate how organized crime influences governance and public life, and how economic, political and social phenomena shape the behavior of criminal organizations.

I am also interested in new computational approaches for analyzing rare events, and public sentiment. More broadly, I am interested in Latin American politics and the intersections between conflict, governance and democracy.

Before Essex I obtained a Master's degree in International Relations at the University of Chicago and a BA in Political Science at CIDE in Mexico City. I am originally from Xalapa in Veracruz, Mexico.

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