Maria Victoria Murillo (PhD Harvard 1997) is the author of Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions, and Market Reforms in Latin America (Cambridge University Press 2001) and co-editor of Argentine Democracy: The Politics of Institutional Weakness (Pennsylvania State University Press 2005). She has published articles on labor politics, public policy, public utility reform, and patronage in World Politics, American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, World Development and other journals. She has recently finished a manuscript titled Voice and Light: Political Competition, Partisanship, and Policymaking in the Reform of Latin American Public Utilities. She is currently working on a project on patronage as a tool for partisan redistribution in Argentina and Chile.

Research interests: comparative politics, public policy, labor politics, Latin American politics.