Name
SONNLEITNER, Willibald
Position and Affiliated Institution
Research Professor, El Colegio de México
Degree
Ph.D.
Education and Academic Employment
Willibald Sonnleitner is a Senior Research Professor at El Colegio de Mexico, where he teaches Political Science, Electoral Sociology and Methodology. He is an Ancien Elève de Scienes Po Paris, and holds a PhD from the University of Paris.
He has widely published on elections and voting and Mexico and Central America. He has been Visiting Professor at Sciences Po and at the Universities of Columbia, Chicago and Harvard. As an international expert in electoral management and institutional engineering, he has served on 21 electoral observation and assistance missions in Latin America.
Research Topic
Political Participation and Representation of Vulnerable Minorities (focusing on indigenous populations, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ people and migrants)
Fields of Research Interest
Elections, Voting, (De-)Democratization, Electoral Geography, Ethnicity, Participation and Representation of Vulnerable Minorities, Legislative Quotas, Affirmative Action
Academic Publications
- Sonnleitner, W. “Political Participation, Representation and Inclusion: Is There an Indigenous Vote in Mexico?”, Política y Gobierno, 28(2), 2020.
- Sonnleitner, W. “Mexico’s 2018 Tsunami-Alternation: Change and Continuities Following the Collapse of the Transitional Three-Party System”, in Latin America’s Pendular Politics, Oliver Dabene (editor), Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
- Sonnleitner, W. Lo que el voto se llevó: La descomposición del pacto posrevolucionario en México, El Colegio de México, 2018.
- Sonnleitner, W. La representación legislativa de los indígenas en México: De la representatividad descriptiva a una representación de mejor calidad [ The Legislative Representation of indigenous People in Mexico: From descriptive representativity to a more substantive representation ], México, Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federación, 2013.
- Sonnleitner, W.; Moreno, M.; Vásquez, J.A.; Santillan, V; Martinez, E.; Soria, M.J., Estudio especializado sobre la efectividad en la aplicación de las acciones afirmativas y las barreras que enfrentan los grupos en situación de discriminación en la representación política en el proceso electoral federal 2020-2021, México, El Colegio de México/Instituto Nacional Electoral, 2022, available at: CGex202212-14-ip-22.pdf (ine.mx)
Other Interests
Electoral geography, history and maps.
Electoral observation.
Affiliated Academic Organization
El Colegio de México (Centro de Estudios Sociológicos)
Awards
Mexico’s National Award of Social Research and Public Opinion (2015)
HP
Professional Web: https://ces.colmex.mx/personal-academico/sonnleitner-willibald
Personal Web for scientific divulgation: https://mapasyvotos.colmex.mx/
