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Denise Eugenia Dresser Guerra (born 22 January 1963) is a Mexican political analyst, writer, and university professor. She is currently a faculty member of the Department of Political Science at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), where she teaches courses such as Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Contemporary Mexican Politics and Graduations Seminars since 1991.Dresser is the author of numerous publications on Mexican politics and U.S.-Mexico relations including "Neopopulist Solutions to Neoliberal Problems: Mexico's National Solidarity Program", "Exporting Conflict: Transboundary Consequences of Mexican Politics," "Treading Lightly and Without a Stick: International Actors and the Promotion of Democracy in Mexico," "Falling From the Tightrope: The Political Economy of the Mexican Crisis,” and "Mexico: From PRI Predominance to Divided Democracy,". She has published articles in the Journal of Democracy, Current History, Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics and Foreign Policy. A more extensive list of her publications is included below.
She writes a political column for the Mexican newspaper Reforma and the news weekly Proceso and was the host of the political talk show "Entre versiones" on Mexican television. She has participated as a political analyst in numerous radio and television programs including the “Mesa Política” with José Gutiérrez Vivó and “El cristal con que se mira” with Victor Trujillo. She is an Associate Editor at the Los Angeles Times, and has contributed numerous opinion pieces to The New York Times and La Opinion, and is a frequent commentator on Mexican politics in the U.S. and Canadian media. She has also worked as a consultant to the United Nations Development Program, Barings Research and the Bank of Montreal. Dr. Dresser is a member of the Research Council of the Forum for Democratic Studies, National Endowment for Democracy, the World Academy of Arts and Science, the advisory board of Trans-National Research Corporation, the editorial board of the Latin American Research Review, the advisory board of Human Rights Watch, the Global Affairs Board at Occidental College, the board of the General Service Foundation and the editorial committee of the Fondo de Cultura Económica. She also served on the Citizens’ Committee in charge of investigating Mexico’s dirty war. She is currently on the board of the Human Rights Commission for Mexico City.
She edited a bestselling collection of essays by prominent Mexican women entitled "Gritos y susurros: experiencias intempestivas de 38 mujeres" (Grijalbo 2004) and also produced a television documentary based on the book. Her most recent publication, in collaboration with novelist Jorge Volpi, is a book of political satire: "México: lo que todo ciudadano quisiera (no) saber de su patria" (Santillana 2006).
Politics has been Dr. Dresser´s main field of work, both in theory and in practice. She has expressed her open opposition to monopolistic practices in México, specially against the legislative reform known as the "Televisa Law", which provides governemnt support to the national television duopoly group Televisa and TV Azteca. Also against TELMEX and more specifically Carlos Slim, one of the wealthiest men alive, whose investment group controls most of the telephone and communications networks in Mexico.
SOME PUBLICATIONS
“Extraction Without Representation: Mexico’s Dysfunctional Democracy” in Jorge Domínguez and Michael Shifter, (eds.), Democratic Governance in Latin America, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, (forthcoming).
“Requiem para un romance: México y Estados Unidos frente a la inmigración,” en Enriqueta Cabrera, (comp.), Desafíos de la migración: saldos de la relación México- Estados Unidos, México, Editorial Planeta, 2007.
“La ‘Ley Televisa’: saldos de una experiencia insólita,” en Javier Corral Jurado y Pablo Arredondo Ramírez, (coord.), La ‘Ley Televisa’: balance y prospectiva, México, Universidad de Guadalajara, 2007.
“Mi Julieta”, Revista de la Universidad, octubre 2007.
“El periodismo forever”, Revista de la Universidad, Febrero 2007.
“El gobierno de Vicente Fox: Un balance informado y necesario,” Nexos, 349, enero 2007.
“Mexico 2006: A House Divided”, Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies, November 2006.
“Paisaje después de la batalla: reflexiones sobre la Ley de Radio y Televisión”, Perspectivas Progresistas, México, Fundación Friedrich Ebert, 2006.
“México 2006: una casa dividida”, Pensamiento de los confines, Buenos Aires, Fondo de Cultura Económica, número 19, diciembre de 2006.
“Retos de la participación ciudadana: Y Frodo?”, en Acuerdos básicos para la consolidación democrática, México, INDESOL, 2006.
“Ciudadanización vs discriminación”, en Defensor, Revista de la Comisión de Derechos Humanos del Distrito Federal, septiembre, 2006.
“Yo, ciudadana”, en En voz alta: testimonios de medio siglo, México, ISSSTE, 2006. Con Jorge Volpi, México: lo que todo ciudadano (no) quisiera saber sobre su patria, México, Aguilar Nuevo Siglo, 2006.
More of her work at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denise_Dresser
In february 2009 she talked about the origins and actual situation of the economical crisis in Mexico and the 11th of march her impressive and arresting speech for the Members of Mexico's Parliament was about the situation of women in that country.
You will find her 5 videos from february in my video section the next days and
her speech about women in my previous post.
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