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Ezequiel Alejo Gonzalez Ocantos

Professor of Comparative & Judicial Politics, University of Oxford
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Dissertation Year Fellow
Former Kellogg Doctoral Student
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Professor of Comparative & Judicial Politics, University of Oxford
PhD, University of Notre Dame, 2012
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PhD Year
2012

Selected Publications

Books

Prosecutors, Voters, and the Criminalisation of Corruption in Latin America
Gonzalez-Ocantos, Ezequiel A. , Paula Muñoz Chirinos, Nara Pavão, and Viviana Baraybar Hidalgo. Prosecutors, Voters and the Criminalization of Corruption in Latin America: The Case of Lava Jato. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
The Limits of Judicialization
Botero, Sandra, Daniel Brinks, and Ezequiel Gonzalez-Ocantos, eds. The Limits of Judicialization: From Progress to Backlash in Latin America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 

Journal Articles

Oliveros, Virginia and Ezequel Alejo Conzalez Ocantos. Clientelism in Latin American Politics. Oxford Research Encyclopedia. (2019)
2009-2010   Supreme Courts and the Justiciability of Human Rights in Latin America’s Third Wave of Democratization
Dissertation Year Fellowship
2008-2009   Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
Kellogg Institute Conference Travel Grants
2008-2009   Measuring and Comparing the Quality of Bureaucracies in Latin America
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2006-2011   PhD Fellowship
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In Brief

Kellogg-affiliated Scholars Publish Paper on Backsliding in Latin America

Nov 13, 2024

In Brief

Clientelism in Latin American Politics

Aug 31, 2019

Visiting Fellow Virginia Oliveros and former Dissertation Year Fellow Ezequiel Gonzalez-Ocantos co-authored an article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics: "Clientelism in Latin American Politics."

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New Book Explores Shifting Legal Visions in Latin America

Oct 13, 2016

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