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 Gilles Serra
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[ Curriculum Vitae ]
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E-mail:
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serra@fas.harvard.edu
+ 44 865 278685
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Nuffield College, Oxford University
New Road, Oxford, OX1 1NF
United Kingdom
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| Thesis Title: |
Why and when do political parties adopt primary elections? A theoretical and comparative study |
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Formal Political Theory |
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Kenneth Shepsle, James Snyder, Robert Bates, Christopher Avery |
Biographical Note:
Gilles Serra is a PhD student in Political Economy and Government. His research areas are formal political theory and comparative politics, and his regions of interests include Latin America and the United States. His dissertation studies why and when political parties adopt democratic ways of selecting their candidates, such as a primary election (to read the dissertation click on the link below). Past research includes models of valence, peace agreements in civil wars, mental framing in macroeconomics, and evolutionary game theory. This research has been presented at the meetings of the American Political Science Association, the Latin American Studies Association and the Midwest Political Science Association.
As part of the PEG program, Gilles took all the required coursework in microeconomics, macroeconomics and econometrics of the Economics Department, and prepared the fields of formal political theory and comparative political economy in the Government Department.
Gilles submitted his dissertation in August 2007, and is now a post-doctoral research fellow at Oxford University (Nuffield College).
Before coming to Harvard, Gilles studied economics and applied mathematics at ITAM in Mexico City. He has the Mexican and French nationalities.
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