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 if, when and how organized crime influence governance and public life, and how economic political and social factors shape the behavior of criminal organizations.

I am also interested in new computational approaches for collecting and analyzing rare events data text and public sentiment. More broadly, my research interests are in Latin American politics, and the intersections between conflict, organized crime, governance and democracy.

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

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