Jordi Diez – Professor of Political Science

Jordi Díez

Professor of Political Science

University of Guelph

Canada

Jordi Díez is Professor of Political Science at the University of Guelph. A Comparativist by training, Díez teaches and does research in several areas, including comparative politics, Latin American politics, social movements, comparative judicial politics, comparative public policy, sexual and reproductive rights, democratization, institutionalism, and public opinion formation.

Jordi Díez

Professor of Political Science

Professor of Political Science

University of Guelph

Canada

Jordi Díez is Professor of Political Science at the University of Guelph. A Comparativist by training, Díez teaches and does research in several areas, including comparative politics, Latin American politics, social movements, comparative judicial politics, comparative public policy, sexual and reproductive rights, democratization, institutionalism, and public opinion formation.

Research

Professor Díez is currently working on a comparative (Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico) SSHRC-funded research project on judicial politics, with a particular focus on explaining judicial behaviour in these countries’ supreme/constitutional courts.

Publications

Professor Díez has published on a variety of areas. He is author/editor of five books, including The Politics of Gay Marriage in Latin America: Argentina, Chile and Mexico (Cambridge, 2015), recently translated into Spanish by the Fondo de Cultura Económica.

Teaching

Díez has taught at several universities in the Americas and Europe, from first-year introductory classes to doctoral seminars. He currently teaches undergraduate and graduate students in comparative politics, judicial politics and Latin American politics.