Maria Victoria Murillo
Maria Victoria Murillo received her PhD from Harvard University and is an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Columbia University. She has been a faculty member at Yale University, and a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University.
Her research focuses on labor politics, political parties, the political economy of policymaking, regulatory politics, and institutional weakness in Latin America. Her recent publications include Political Competition, Partisanship and Policymaking in Latin American Public Utilities (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) and as the coedition of Argentine Democracy: the Politics of Institutional Weakness (Pennsylvania State University Press 2005). She is the editorial board of Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica.
In her "Latin American Political Economy" class, Professor Murillo asks students to read "An Empty Revolution: The Unfulfilled Promises of Hugo Chávez" (Mar/Apr 2008) by Francisco Rodríguez. She had also included "Latin America's Left Turn" (May/Jun 2006) by Jorge G. Castañeda in her classes.
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