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Maria Victoria Murillo

Maria Victoria Murillo

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Overview

Maria Victoria Murillo is an academic affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a significant focus on political science and international relations, sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, communication, and strategy and management.

The scientist's work explores topics including politics and society in Latin America, social policy and reform studies, agriculture, land use and rural development, electoral systems and political participation, historical economic and social studies, microfinance and financial inclusion, as well as poverty, education, and child welfare.

Maria Victoria Murillo has contributed to various academic journals and frequently publishes in venues such as Comparative Political Studies, Studies in Comparative International Development, Journal of Democracy, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Revista Mexicana de Sociología.

Recent papers include:

  • The Most Vulnerable Poor: Clientelism Among Slum Dwellers, 2021, Studies in Comparative International Development
  • Argentina: Peronism Returns, 2020, Journal of Democracy
  • Heeding to the Losers: Legislators' Trade-Policy Preferences and Legislative Behavior, 2021, Legislative Studies Quarterly

In addition to their solo work, Murillo has collaborated frequently with other researchers. Notable coauthors include Daniel M. Brinks, Steven Levitsky, Guadalupe Andrea Gonzalez, Gabriel Kessler, and Virginia Oliveros.

The overall body of work contributes to understanding social and political dynamics, particularly in Latin American contexts, addressing aspects of clientelism, political movements, policy preferences, and distributive conflicts related to economic conditions.

Best Publications

  • Who Delivers? Partisan Clients in the Argentine Electoral Market

    Ernesto Calvo;Maria Victoria Murillo

  • Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions, and Market Reforms in Latin America

    Maria Victoria Murillo

  • Variation in Institutional Strength

    Steven Levitsky;María Victoria Murillo

  • When Parties Meet Voters Assessing Political Linkages Through Partisan Networks and Distributive Expectations in Argentina and Chile

    Ernesto Calvo;Maria Victoria Murillo

  • La adaptación del sindicalismo argentino a las reformas del mercado en la primera presidencia de Menem

    Maria Victoria Murillo

  • Argentina: From Kirchner to Kirchner

    Steven Levitsky;María Victoria Murillo

  • Argentine Democracy: The Politics of Institutional Weakness

    Steven Levitsky;María Victoria Murillo

  • Political Competition, Partisanship, and Policy Making in Latin American Public Utilities

    Maria Victoria Murillo

  • Understanding Institutional Weakness

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  • From Populism To Neoliberalism: Labor Unions and Market Reforms in Latin America

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  • With a Little Help from my Friends

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  • Building Institutions on Weak Foundations

    Steven Levitsky;María Victoria Murillo

  • Partisanship Amidst Convergence: The Politics of Labor Reform in Latin America

    María Victoria Murillo

  • Political Bias in Policy Convergence: Privatization Choices in Latin America

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  • Argentina Weathers the Storm

    Steven Levitsky;Maria Victoria Murillo

  • How Democracy Works: Political Institutions, Actors and Arenas in Latin American Policymaking

    Carlos Scartascini;Ernesto H. Stein;Mariano Tommasi;Mark P. Jones

  • Political Competition and Policy Adoption: Market Reforms in Latin American Public Utilities

    Maria Victoria Murillo;Cecilia Martínez-Gallardo

  • Who Delivers? Partisan Clients in the Argentine Electoral Market

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  • Electoral Revolution or Democratic Alternation

    María Victoria Murillo;Virginia Oliveros;Milan Vaishnav

  • Recovering Political Dynamics: Teachers' Unions and the Decentralization of Education in Argentina and Mexico

    María Victoria Murillo

  • Economic performance and incumbents' support in Latin America

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  • Latin American Labor Reforms: Evaluating Risk and Security

    María Victoria Murillo;Lucas Ronconi;Andrew Schrank

  • Teachers’ strikes in Argentina: Partisan alignments and public-sector labor relations

    Maria Victoria Murillo;Lucas Ronconi

  • Latin American Political Economy: Making Sense of a New Reality

    Juan Pablo Luna;María Victoria Murillo;Andrew Schrank

  • Understanding Institutional Weakness: Power and Design in Latin American Institutions

    Daniel M. Brinks;Steven Levitsky;Maria Victoria Murillo

  • Agency under constraint: Ideological preferences and the politics of electricity regulation in Latin America

    Cecilia Martinez-Gallardo;Maria Victoria Murillo

  • How Investor Portfolios Shape Regulatory Outcomes: Privatized Infrastructure After Crises

    Alison E. Post;María Victoria Murillo

  • Sensitivity to Issue Framing on Trade Policy Preferences: Evidence from a Survey Experiment

    María Victoria Murillo;Pablo M. Pinto;Martin Ardanaz

  • Political Competition, Partisanship, and Policy Making in Latin American Public Utilities: Casting a Partisan Light on Regulatory Choices

    Maria Victoria Murillo

  • Non-Policy Politics

    Ernesto Calvo;Maria Victoria Murillo

Frequent Co-Authors

Mariano Tommasi
Mariano Tommasi University of San Andrés
Steven Levitsky
Steven Levitsky Harvard University
Sebastian M. Saiegh
Sebastian M. Saiegh University of California, San Diego
Mark P. Jones
Mark P. Jones Rice University
Ernesto Stein
Ernesto Stein Inter-American Development Bank
Laurence Whitehead
Laurence Whitehead University of Oxford
Peter Kuhn
Peter Kuhn University of California, Santa Barbara
Elisa E. Konofagou
Elisa E. Konofagou Columbia University
Maximo Torero
Maximo Torero Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

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