Victoria E. Rodríguez académica y administradora, especializada en estudios de políticas públicas y estudios latinoamericanos. Ha tenido una notable carrera en la educación superior en los Estados Unidos, particularmente en la Universidad de Texas en Austin, es profesora emérita Ashbel Smith en la Escuela de Asuntos Públicos LBJ. Fue vicerrectora y decana de estudios de posgrado en UT Austin de 2002 a 2012. Antes de unirse a UT Austin en 1991, ocupó puestos docentes en la Universidad de California, San Diego y la Universidad de Texas en El Paso. También fue investigadora asociada en la Universidad de Cambridge y se desempeñó como consultora del Banco Mundial. Su investigación se centra en temas relacionados con la gobernanza, las políticas públicas, y el papel de las mujeres en la política en América Latina. Su trabajo incluye el análisis de la descentralización y la democratización en México, así como el estudio de la participación política de las mujeres en este país. Además, ha publicado numerosos artículos y libros sobre estos temas. En 2001 recibió junto con el Profesor Peter Ward la Medalla Ohtli, el más alto honor que otorga el gobierno mexicano fuera de México.
Political Change in Baja California: Democracy in the Making? (Center for Us-Mexican Studies, 1994) · Opposition Government in Mexico (University of New Mexico Press, 1995) · Women's Participation In Mexican Political Life (Westview Press, 1998) · New Federalism and State Government in Mexico: Bringing the States Back in (University of Texas Press, 1999) · La descentralización en México. De la reforma municipal a Solidaridad y el nuevo federalismo (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1999) · Women in Contemporary Mexican Politics (University of Texas Press, 2003) · Women & Politics in the Americas: Political Representation and Policy Agendas in the Executive Branch (LBJ School of Public Affairs, 2015) · Latin America's Women Presidents: Governance & Policymaking (University of Texas Press, 2020)
The political landscape of Latin America changed dramatically during a remarkable period in time in the early 21st Century when four women occupied the presidencies of the three most important countries in South America and the most important one in Central America. All of them were the first women elected to the presidency in their respective countries, and together, from 2006 to 2018, they governed well over half of the population of that part of the Americas and presided over four countries that are widely
recognized as leaders in terms of economic power and political influence.
The report analyzes the extent of women’s engagement in political activities in the executive branch of government throughout the Americas. The first part examines women’s political representation worldwide and sets the international context for the analysis of the Americas. The second part focuses on specific case studies of women who have held executive power in the Americas. The report concludes by pulling together the main findings of the individual case studies and assessing the common themes that emerge from our analysis.
Since the mid-1980s, a dramatic opening in Mexico's political and electoral processes, combined with the growth of a new civic culture, has created unprecedented opportunities for women and other previously repressed or ignored groups to participate in the political life of the nation. In this book, Victoria Rodríguez offers the first comprehensive analysis of how Mexican women have taken advantage of new opportunities to participate in the political process through elected and appointed office, nongovernmental organizations, and grassroots activism. Drawing on scores of interviews ...
The close ties between Texas and Mexico make imperative an informed analysis of Mexico's democratization and governance changes at federal, state, and city levels. In 1999, after seventy years of virtual one-party rule, almost three fifths of the Mexican population are governed by opposition (non-PRI) parties, including eight of the 31 states and the Federal District.
This book is the first systematic analysis of state governance in Mexico. Building upon their earlier work on local governments, the authors analyze President Zedillo's efforts since 1995 to reduce excessive centralization ...
Evaluación del impacto en la descentralización de las relaciones intergubernamentales. Examina los obstáculos que existen para que el poder político del centro se distribuya entre los niveles inferiores del gobierno y revisa la distribución del poder y de la autoridad de los gobiernos de oposición.
To date, the mainstream literature on Mexican politics has said little about women, even though their participation as formal political actors has increased dramatically in the past fifteen years. Somewhat surprisingly, the political participation of women, although well documented in other Latin American countries, has been neglected in the case of Mexico. Women's Participation in Mexican Political Life is a collection of thirteen original essays which pulls together the expertise of well-known Mexicanist, Latin Americanist, and gender scholars from Mexico, the U.S., and Europe. ...
The political system in Mexico is changing to a more open and democratic one. The transformation is evident in the genuine multiparty competition in elections, which since the mid-1980s has resulted in opposition parties winning office at the municipal and state levels. Once in power, these opposition parties have sought to deliver on their campaign promises while also dealing with the old regime, especially in seeking to establish effective relations with the ruling PRI (Partido Revolucionario Institucional).
The fourteen original essays in this book, by scholars working in both Mexico ...
Political Change in Baja California: Democracy in the Making? January 1994. Peter Ward
Cuando Victoria E. Rodríguez empezó a pensar sobre el papel de la mujeres en la política en México, no había nadie hablando a profundidad de la conversación, pero era el momento en que las cosas estaban cambiando a nivel mundial para reconocer el papel de éstas en la sociedad. Eso inicia una vida dedicada al estudio de este tema y la publicación de libros que son, hoy en día, de los pocos estudios que analizan las administraciones de presidentas, en qué lugar está México y Latinoamérica en el mundo ...
La elección de la primera mujer como presidenta de México, me hizo pensar en una estudiosa de la presencia de las mujeres en la vida política de México y otros países latinoamericanos: Victoria E. Rodríguez. Me parece tan lúcida y actual su investigación que la invité al podcast para conversar con ella. El entusiasmo de releerla y del momento político que estamos viviendo me hizo escribir sobre sus libros en "Troyanas", la columna de generosamente Literal Publishing abre para que puede hablar de literatura por escritoras ...