Guillermo Trejo

About

Kellogg Faculty Fellow Guillermo Trejo is associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame and faculty fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. Trejo’s research focuses on social movements, organized crime, political violence and religion and politics in Latin America. He is the author of Popular Movements in Autocracies: Religion, Repression and Indigenous Collective Action in Mexico (Cambridge University Press, 2012), which won an honorable mention for the 2013 Charles Tilly Award from the American Sociological Association. Trejo is currently working on a project that seeks to explain the outbreak of criminal wars in Latin America’s new democracies.

Thematic Interests

Collective action and social movements; armed insurgencies, organized crime, and political violence; religion and ethnic politics

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Journal Articles

Trejo, Guillermo, and Sandra Ley. “High-Profile Criminal Violence: Why Drug Cartels Murder Government Officials and Party Candidates in Mexico.” British Journal of Political Science. Cambridge University Press, 1–27 (2019).

Trejo, Guillermo, Juan Albarracín, and Lucía Tiscornia. “Breaking State Impunity in Post-Authoritarian Regimes: Why Transitional Justice Processes Deter Criminal Violence in New Democracies.” Journal of Peace Research (2018)

Trejo, Guillermo and Sandra Ley, “Why Did Drug Cartels Go to War in Mexico? Subnational Party Alternation, the Breakdown of Criminal Protection, and the Onset of Large-Scale Violence,” Comparative Political Studies (2017)

"Federalismo, drogas y violencia: Por qué el conflicto partidista intergubernamental estimuló la violencia del narcotráfico en México” / " Federalism, drugs, and violence: Why intergovernmental partisan conflict stimulated inter-cartel violence in Mexico,” Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas 23, 1 (2016)

"The Ballot and the Street: An Electoral Theory of Social Protest in Autocracies," Perspectives on Politics 12, 2 (2014)

"Religious Competition and Ethnic Mobilization in Latin America: Why the Catholic Church Promotes Indigenous Movements in Mexico," American Political Science Review 103, 3 (2009)

Book Chapters

"Violencia y politica en el Mexico del Bicentenario: Causas y consecuencias de la primera crisis de la democracia," in Rolando Cordera, ed., Historia Critica de las Modernizaciones en Mexico: Presente y Perspectivas (CIDE and Fondo de Cultura Economica, 2010)

Other Accomplishments & Recognitions

Editorial Board Best Paper Award from Comparative Political Studies for 2018 coauthored article, "Why Did Drug Cartels Go to War in Mexico? Subnational Party Alternation, the Breakdown of Criminal Protection, and the Onset of Large-Scale Violence."
Honorable Mention, Best Article Published in 2014 from the Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA) for the article, "The Ballot and the Street: An Electoral Theory of Social Protest in Autocracies," Perspectives on Politics 12, 2 (2014)

News

Scholar of Religion in Politics Engages with Kellogg at Many Levels

Jun 15, 2017

“I want to understand how citizens can help to make democracy better,” says Visiting Fellow Amy Erica Smith. A political scientist with expertise in Latin American and Brazilian politics, she focuses her work on mass political behavior.