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WE R1! 💙💛 UC Merced has officially been named a Carnegie R1 top-tier research university—the only one in the Central Valley. In less than 20 years, we've joined the nation's most elite institutions, proving that innovation and impact have no limits. 🔗 ucm.edu/3ussof

Inside Criminalized Governance by Nicholas Barnes This book provides unprecedented ethnographic access inside the governance practices of Rio de Janeiro's drug trafficking gangs. 📚 cup.org/3CCwCME

Very happy to see this in press! It was a please to work with Bruno Calderón-Hernández John Marshall and José Luis Pérez-Castellanos nature.com/articles/s4159… The data, published in honor of the late Francisco Cantú, includes electoral results at the precinct level for all

NEW PODCAST EPISODE: Christopher Ojeda (UC Merced Political Science) joins host Lindsay Shingler to discuss his new book, "The Sad Citizen", and answer the question: “What do we do when what’s good for democracy is bad for our mental wellbeing?” Listen now: ucigcc.org/podcast/sad-ci…

#OpenAccess from PSRM Journal - Female mayors and violence against women: evidence from Mexico - cup.org/4lzXcXs - Marco Alcocer, Rachel Skillman & Angie Torres-Beltran #FirstView

In a new publication, my coauthors and I ask: Do women mayors in Mexico address violence against women better than their male counterparts? We find that they do reduce some forms of VAW, and we probe possible mechanisms. Read here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Disappointment. Grief. Loss. A set of emotions far less incendiary but just as damaging to democracy. Read more about UC Merced PoliSci professor Christopher Ojeda's new book “The Sad Citizen: How Politics is Depressing and Why It Matters” here ⤵️ ucm.edu/z0oiu3

Female mayors in Mexico reduce some of the most serious forms of violence against women. Check out the new publication in PSRM Journal by UC Merced PoliSci Professor Marco Alcocer and coauthors Rachel Skillman and Angie Torres-Beltran. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

👩‍🦰Do women politicians address violence against women more effectively? ➡️Using data from Mexico and a RDD, Marco Alcocer R. Skillman & Angie Torres-Beltran find fewer female and young female homicides in municipalities led by women cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView