Jesús Tovar is Professor and Researcher of political science in the Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades (CICSyH) at Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México (UAEMEX). Tovar holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Mexico. He used to teach courses related with Comparative Politics, Politics in Latin America and Methods in Political Science. His recent research is about Quality of Democracy, Mexican Immigrants in USA, Democracy in Latin America. He is currently the President of Mexican Political Science Association (AMECIP) since 2019 and also was member of Executive Committee in Asociación Latinoamericana de Ciencia Política (ALACIP), and member of Executive Member of IPSA (2017 – 2019).