Diana Davila Gordillo
Guest - researcher
- Name
- Dr. D.L. Davila Gordillo
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- d.l.davila.gordillo@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-2295-381X
Diana Dávila Gordillo received her PhD from the Institute of Political Science of Leiden University in 2021. Before, Diana obtained an MSc in Political Science (cum laude) from the same institute in 2015 and a Bachelor in Sociology with a minor in Political Science from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador in 2011.
Diana’s research focuses on political parties’ survival, parties’ mobilizations strategies, and the mechanisms that foster changes in ethnic identities. Diana’s dissertation, “Surviving against all odds: Pachakutik’s electoral support, mobilization strategies, and goal achievement between 1996 and 2019”, proposes a theory of party survival that focuses on parties with low levels of electoral support and scarce resources. To illustrate her argument, she uses the case of Pachakutik, an indigenous party from Ecuador. As a lecturer, she teaches Qualitative Methods at the master level and small seminars on political parties and democracies at the bachelor level.
Before her master’s degree, she worked for the Ecuadorian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility for five years. From 2009 to 2012, she was a Foreign Policy analyst based in Quito. From 2012 to 2014, she was part of the Permanent Mission of Ecuador to the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington D.C., working as Second Secretary, Alternate Representative of Ecuador.
Personal website: dianadavilagordillo.com.
Guest - researcher
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Politieke Wetenschap
Assistant professor
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Politieke Wetenschap
- Cisneros A.A., Aldaz Peña R., Davila Gordillo D.L. & Vallejo Vera S. (2021), Believe in me: parties’ strategies during a pandemic, evidence from Ecuador, Journal of Politics in Latin America 13(3): 419-441.
- Davila Gordillo D.L. & Wylie K.N. (2021), Party leadership and institutionalization in Latin America. In: Vanden H.E. & Prevost G (Eds.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latin American Politics. Politics: Oxford University Press. 1-2880.
- Cisneros A.A., Aldaz Pena R., Davila Gordillo D. & Vallejo Vera S. (2021), Ecuador: cómo diferenciarse cuando compites con 16 candidatos, Agenda Publica : .
- Davila Gordillo D.L. (2021), Elecciones presidenciales en el Ecuador: flashback al pasado y un futuro incierto, Voz y Voto 339: .
- Dávila Gordillo D.L. (1 July 2021), Surviving against all odds: Pachakutik’s electoral support, mobilization strategies, and goal achievement between 1996 and 2019 (Dissertatie. Institute of Political Science, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University). Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Kopecký P., Spirova M.S. & Zwart F. de.
- Davila Gordillo D.L. (2019), Evaluating party goals and party performance. The cases of Pachakutik and Izquierda Democratica (1996-2017). 77th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago. 77th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) 4 April 2019 - 7 April 2019.
- Davila Gordillo D.L. (2019), “Unity within Diversity – Pachakutik’s mobilization strategies in local elections”. 2019 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C. 2019 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting 29 August 2019 - 1 October 2019.
- Davila Gordillo D.L. (2019), “Evaluating party goals and party performance. The cases of Pachakutik and Izquierda Democratica (1996-2017)”. Annual Conference of the Latin American Studies Association, Boston. Annual Conference of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) 24 May 2019 - 27 May 2019.
- Davila Gordillo D. & Ragazzi F. (2017), The Radicalisation Awareness Network: Producing the EU counter-radicalisation discourse. In: Carrera S. & Mitsilegas V. (Eds.), Constitutionalising the Security Union Effectiveness, Rule of Law and Rights in Countering Terrorism and Crime. Brussels: Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS). 54-63.
- Davila Gordillo D. (2017), Loosing Members and Winning Votes? Pachakutik and Indigenous Representation in Ecuador. ECPR Joint Sessions. University of Nottingham. Workshop Political Parties as Arena for Descriptive Representation 25 April 2017 - 30 April 2017.