{"id":3635,"date":"2024-07-01T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T19:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=3635"},"modified":"2024-07-01T14:29:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T19:29:38","slug":"kenneth-greene","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/speaker\/kenneth-greene\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenneth Greene"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kenneth F. Greene is an Associate Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin.&nbsp; His research focuses on authoritarian regimes as well as elections and voting behavior in new democracies, with a particular emphasis on Mexico. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His first book,<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Why-Dominant-Parties-Lose-Democratization\/dp\/0521139899\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;Why Dominant Parties Lose: Mexico\u2019s Democratization in Comparative Perspective (2007)<\/a>,<\/em>&nbsp;argues that economic privatization threatens the hyper-incumbency advantages dominant parties derive from politicizing public resources.&nbsp; This project and related papers won the 2008 Best Book Award and the 2007 and 2015 Best Paper Awards from the Comparative Democratization Section of the American Political Science Association.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Current research centers on vote buying and the quality of elections, arguing that democratic competition undermines political machines\u2019 ability to buy support.&nbsp; One paper in this agenda won the 2017 Pi Sigma Alpha \/ Franklin L. Burdette Prize for the best paper presented at the previous year\u2019s meeting of the American Political Science Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was Principal Investigator of the Mexico 2012 Panel Study of voters, the 2018 Elections and Quality of Democracy Panel Survey, and 14 other survey projects, as well as co-editor of Mexico&#8217;s Evolving Democracy (2015).&nbsp; His articles have appeared in Political Analysis, the American Journal of Political Science, World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, PS: Political Science and Politics, Foreign Affairs en Espa\u00f1ol, and other outlets. In 2014-2015, he was a Santander Chair of Excellence at the Carlos III University and Juan March Institute in Madrid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He teaches on research methods, political parties, Mexico\u2019s politics, and U.S.-Mexico relations. Despite assigning a \u201ctoo much reading!\u201d, he has been recognized with a 2011 Raymond Dickson Teaching Award and a 2009 Liberal Arts Council Teaching Award for undergraduate education at UT-Austin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3636,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-3635","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"Associate Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin","speaker_last_name":"Greene","speaker_classification":["Featured Guests"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/3635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/3635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3639,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/3635\/revisions\/3639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}