Luis Soto Tamayo
GCDC Quantitative Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Bio:
Luis joined the Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism at UCL Laws in September 2025. His research focuses on judicial politics—currently emphasising constitutional resilience—and also examines public-sector corruption, organisational performance, and state capacity. He holds a PhD in Politics Research from the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London, supported by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Prior to his PhD, he worked in Mexico’s federal public sector, and in the Centre for Research and Economic Teaching (CIDE) as a research assistant.
Representative publications:
“Using Citizen Voice to Evaluate Experiments on Politicians: A UK Survey Experiment”. 2024. Journal of Experimental Political Science, 11(1), 42–51 (with Peter John & Kristina Kim).
“Nepotism: One Concept, Three Measurement Strategies. A Comparative Analysis in the Mexican Judiciary”. 2024. Revista de Ciencia Política, 44(1) (with Julio Rios-Figueroa).
“Electoral Competition and Judicial Independence in the States of Mexico, 1985-2014”. 2017. Revista Mexicana de Sociología, 79. No. 2: 287-318 (with Julio Ríos Figueroa) (Spanish).
“Judicial Institutions in the States of Mexico: A Long-Term Perspective, 1917- 2014”. 2017. Colombia Internacional, 91: 243-263 (with Julio Ríos Figueroa) (Spanish).