Maria Victoria Murillo
Affiliation
Research
Maria Victoria Murillo (PhD Harvard 1997) is Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs. Previously she was an Associate Professor at Yale University, a Peggy Rockefeller Fellow at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and a postdoctoral fellow in the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, both at Harvard University. She is the author of Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions, and Market Reforms in Latin America (Cambridge University Press 2001) and various articles on labor politics and privatization politics in Latin America. She is currently working on the politics of policymaking in Latin America with a particular focus on the privatization and regulation of public utilities, labor regulations, and education policies.
Selected Work
- Argentine Democracy: the Politics of Institutional Weakness Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005. Co-edited with Steven Levitsky
- "Partisanship Amidst Convergence: Labor Market Reforms in Latin America" Comparative Politics Vol. 37, No. 4 (July 2005)
- Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions, and Market Reforms in Latin America Cambridge University Press, Comparative Politics Series, 2001
- "Political Bias in Policy Convergence. Privatization Choices in Latin America" World Politics 54 (July 2002)
- "Decentralization in Argentina" With Nadir Habibi, Cindy Huang, Diego Miranda, Gustav Ranis, Mainak Sarkar and Frances Steward. Journal of Human Development.
- "Latin American Labor at the Cross-Roads" In Jorge I. Domênguez and Michael Shifter (eds) Democratic Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean. Johns Hopkins University Press.
See Also
- Research grant: Patronage, Democracy, and the Public Sector: Estimating the Size and Structure of Patronage Networks
- Seed grant: Policy Adoption and Effective Enforcement in Latin America
- Featured publication: Argentine Democracy: The Politics of Institutional Weakness
- Working paper: Political Competition and Policy Adoption: Market Reforms in Latin American Public Utilities
