Omar García-Ponce

Omar García-Ponce
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Full-time
Contact:
Political economy of development; political violence; organized crime; political behavior; Latin American politics
IAFF 3187 - Mexico Since Independence
PSC 3192W - Political Economy of Violence
PSC 3500 - US-Mexican Relations
PSC 3500 - Politics of Crime & Violence
PSC 8101 - Introduction to Empirical Political Analysis
“Cross-Border Spillover: U.S. Gun Laws and Violence in Mexico” (joint with Arindrajit Dube and Oeindrila Dube). 2013. American Political Science Review 107 (3): 397–417
“Partisan Losers’ Effects: Perceptions of Electoral Integrity in Mexico“ (joint with Francisco Cantú). 2015. Electoral Studies 39: 1–14.
“From Maize to Haze: Agricultural Shocks and the Growth of the Mexican Drug Sector” (joint with Oeindrila Dube and Kevin Thom). 2016. Journal of the European Economic Association 14 (5): 1181–224.
“Why Ethnic Subaltern-Led Parties Crowd Out Armed Organizations in India” (joint with Kanchan Chandra). 2019. World Politics 71 (2): 367–416.
Ph.D., New York University, 2016
M.A., New York University, 2009
B.A., El Colegio de México, 2006