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Research and Teaching Interests
Substantive: Bureaucracy, Corruption, Economic Development, Institutional Analysis and Development, Latin American Politics, Organizational Theory and Behavior, Political Development, Political Economy, Public Administration, and the Public Policy Process; with an emphasis in the comparative aspect of each of these fields.
Methods: Categorical Data Analysis, Causal Inference, Experimental, Exploratory Data Analysis, Formal/Game Theory, Introduction to Statistics/Quantitative Methods, Social Network Analysis
Dissertation Title
Escape from Patronage: A Multi-Method Exploration of the Causes and Consequences of Bureaucratic Insulation
Dissertation Committee
Regina Smyth (Chair), Claudia Avellaneda, William Bianco, Sean Nicholson-Crotty