Event Date: April 9
Reception 5:30 p.m.; Dinner 6:15 p.m.; Program 7:30 p.m.
Program: Brookens Auditorium, University of Illinois at Springfield
Dinner & Reception: PAC Restaurant, University of Illinois at Springfield
Speaker: Christina Tapia Muro, Professor of Political Science, University of Colima, Mexico
All programs are free and open to the public. Dinners require a reservation.
Dr. Tapia’s presentation will explore the history of Mexico’s political leadership, placing emphasis on the political, social, and economic factors that contributed to Manuel Andres López Obrador’s 2018 election as president. She will discuss clientelism (a system of political patronage and corruption) and efforts of the current government to eradicate it. An advocate of the working class and supported by the National Regeneration Movement, President López Obrador is a critic of the Institutional Revolutionary Party that has dominated national politics.
Dr. Tapia earned a Ph.D. in economics and administrative sciences from the University of Jalisco, Guadalajara, Mexico. She also has a post-doctoral specialization on public policy and gender justice from the Latin American Council of Social Sciences and the Latin American College of Social Sciences, Brazil. She has written numerous peer-reviewed articles on clientelism in Mexico in such venues as Estudios Sociologicos and the Asian Journal of Latin American Studies.
