Professor Alejandro Quiroz Flores
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Email
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Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 872193
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Location
PARKSIDE, Colchester Campus
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Academic support hours
By Appointment.
Profile
Qualifications
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Ph.D. in Politics, New York University, 2010
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M.A. in Politics, New York University, 2006
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M.Phil. in Latin American Studies, University of Oxford, St. Antony's College, 2003
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B.A. (Hons) in Political Science and International Relations, CIDE, Mexico, 2001
Appointments
University of Essex
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Director of Recruitment, Department of Government, University of Essex (1/9/2017 - 19/4/2019)
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Political Economy
Politics and Economics of Natural Disasters
Leader Survival
Econometrics
Teaching and supervision
Previous supervision
Degree subject: Government
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 21/8/2018
Degree subject: Government
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 10/11/2017
Publications
Journal articles (11)
Quiroz Flores, A., Liza, F., Quteineh, H. and Czarnecka, B., (2021). Variation in the timing of Covid-19 communication across universities in the UK. PLoS One. 16 (2), e0246391-e0246391
Quiroz Flores, A. and Pfaff, KG., (2021). Private Provision of Public Goods and Political Survival: Rail Transport in Four European Democracies in the 20th Century. Research in Transportation Economics. 90, 101046-101046
Bäck, H., Teorell, J., Von Hagen-Jamar, A. and Quiroz Flores, A., (2021). War, Performance and the Survival of Foreign Ministers. Foreign Policy Analysis. 17 (2)
Quiroz Flores, A., (2018). Protecting People from Natural Disasters: Political Institutions and Ocean-Originated Hazards. Political Science Research and Methods. 6 (1), 111-134
Quiroz Flores, A. and Whiteley, P., (2018). The 'Beeching Axe' and Electoral Support in Britain. European Review of Economic History. 22 (3), 361-379
Plümper, T., Quiroz Flores, A. and Neumayer, E., (2017). The double-edged sword of learning from disasters: Mortality in the Tohoku tsunami. Global Environmental Change. 44, 49-56
Quiroz Flores, A. and Smith, A., (2013). Leader Survival and Natural Disasters. British Journal of Political Science. 43 (4), 821-843
Quiroz Flores, A., (2012). A Competing Risks Model of War Termination and Leader Change1. International Studies Quarterly. 56 (4), 809-819
Quiroz Flores, A. and Smith, A., (2011). Leader Survival and Cabinet Change. Economics and Politics. 23 (3), 345-365
Quiroz Flores, A., (2011). Alliances as Contiguity in Spatial Models of Military Expenditures. Conflict Management and Peace Science. 28 (4), 402-418
Quiroz Flores, A., (2009). The Political Survival of Foreign Ministers. Foreign Policy Analysis. 5 (2), 117-133
Books (3)
Quiroz Flores, A., (2022). Survival Analysis: A New Guide For Social Scientists. Cambridge University Press. 9781009054508
Quiroz Flores, A., (2016). Ministerial Survival During Political and Cabinet Change: Foreign Affairs, Diplomacy and War. Routledge. 978-1138193642
Getmansky, A. and Quiroz Flores, A., (2013). Applying the Strategic Perspective Problems and Models, Workbook (Fifth Edition). CQ Press. 9781452228006
Book chapters (2)
Quiroz Flores, A., (2019). Are There Really Dictatorships? The Selectorate and Authoritarian Governance. In: The Oxford Handbook of Public Choice. Editors: Congleton, RD., Grofman, B. and Voigt, S., . Oxford Handbooks. 310- 327. 0190469773. 9780190469771
Quiroz Flores, A., (2015). United States of America: The Cabinet. In: The Selection of Ministers around the World. Editors: Dowding, K. and Dumont, P., . Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 978-0-415-63346-8
Reports and Papers (1)
Hadjimatheou, K., Quiroz Flores, A., Weir, R. and Skevington, T., (2023). Understanding Domestic Abuse Perpetrators: using unsupervised machine learning to analyse a longitudinal dataset of domestic abuse incidents from Essex Police. A Home-Office funded project. 2022
Grants and funding
2023
Essex Net Zero Delivery Task Force (EssNet)
Innovate UK (formerly Technology Strategy Board)
2022
ECC Women's Safety Evaluation: Safe Spaces programme
Essex County Council
Commercialising Social Science Research Through CPD Training
University of Essex (ESRC IAA)
ECC Women's Safety Evaluation: Night Time Economy
Essex County Council
Mapping the Maps of Skills in Essex
North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group
2021
Understanding Domestic Abuse Perpetrators' (A mixed methods, Home Office-funded project in collaboration with Essex Police
Home Office
2020
Sustaining Post-COVID Volunteer Engagement in England
University of Essex (ESRC IAA)
2018
Reducing Child Vulnerability in the Aftermath of Disasters
University of Essex
2014
The Economic Effects of the Beeching Report 1961-2011
The British Academy
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