Leticia M. Ruiz Rodríguez

Leticia M. Ruiz is currently an associate professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid at the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Universidad de Salamanca (Spain), a Master in Comparative Politics by University of North Carolina (USA) and a Diploma in Data Analysis and Collection by University of Essex. Her work is focused on party dynamics, and parliamentary elites from a comparative perspective. She is leading a three year Project, funded by Spanish government, on spheres of power within Latin American political parties. Author of several books, her research has also been published at Czech Journal of Political Science, Perfiles Latinoamericanos, Revista Mexicana de Sociología, Revista de Ciencia Política (Chile), Revista Española de Derecho Constitucional, Colombia Internacional (forthcoming), among others. She was recently awarded with the Prize for Best Congress Paper (2021) by the Asociación Española de Ciencia Política.

While in Oxford Leticia will be working on political parties in Latin America.

Email: leticiamaria.ruiz@cps.ucm.es