M. Victoria Murillo
420 W 118th St., 7th Floor IABColumbia University
Phone: (212) 854-4671
Fax: (212) 854-4607
E-mail: mm2140 at columbia dot edu
Education
- Harvard University: PhD, November 1997; M.A., May 1994 (PhD Dissertation "From Populism to Neoliberalism: Labor Unions and Market Reforms in Latin America," sponsor: Jorge I. Dominguez, published 2001).
- Universidad de Buenos Aires, BA, June1991
Academic Employment
- Columbia University, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science/ School of International and Public Affairs, 2003- (with tenure since 2007).
- Yale University,
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, July 2002-December
2002 .
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, January 1998-July 2002.
Main Awards
- Harvard University, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies Fellowship, 1996-1997.
- Harvard University, Peggy Rockefeller Fellowship, July 2002-December 2002.
- American Political Science Association, Luebbert Award for the Best Comparative Politics Article published in 2004-05.
- National Science Foundation, Political Science Program, 2006 (Project: "Collaborative Research: Patronage, Democracy, and the Public Sector: Estimating the Size and Structure of Patronage Networks," award: $290,000)
- Fulbright Foundation, William Fulbright Foreign Scholar 2008.
Publications in English
Books- Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions, and Market Reforms in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, Comparative Politics Series, 2001). Selected for Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles 2003 in the Social and Behavioral Sciences.
- Argentine Democracy: the Politics of Institutional Weakness (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005). Co-edited with Steven Levitsky.
- Political Competition, Partisanship, and Policymaking in Latin America (under contract with Cambridge University Press).
- "The Causes and Implications of Variation in Institutional Strength" (with Steven Levitsky) Annual Review of Political Science (forthcoming)
- "From Kirchner to Kirchner" Journal of Democracy (forthcoming April 2008).
- "Political Competition and Policy Adoption: Market Reforms in Latin American Public Utilities" (with Cecilia Martínez Gallardo) American Journal of Political Science Vol. 51, No. 1 (January 2007).
- "Crisis and Policymaking in Latin America: the Case of Chile's 1998-99 Electricity Crisis" (with Carmen Le Foulon), World Development Vol. 34, No. 9 (September 2006)
- "Partisanship Amidst Convergence: Labor Market Reforms in Latin America," Comparative Politics Vol. 37, No. 4 (July 2005), 441-458.
- "With a Little Help from my Friends: External and Domestic Allies and Labor Rights in Latin America" (with Andrew Schrank), Comparative Political Studies Vol. 38, No. 8 (October 2005), 971-999.
- "Who Delivers? Partisan Clients in the Argentine Electoral Market" (with Ernesto Calvo) American Journal of Political Science Vol. 48, No. 4 (October 2004), 742-757.
- "Teachers' Strikes in Argentina: Partisan Alignments and Public Sector Labor Relations" (with Lucas Ronconi), Studies in Comparative International Development, Vol. 39, No. 1 (Spring 2004), 77-98.
- "Argentina Weathers the Storm" (with Steven Levitsky), Journal of Democracy, Vol. 14, No. 4, (October 2003),152-166.
- "Decentralization in Argentina" (with Nadir Habibi, Cindy Huang, Diego Miranda, Gustav Ranis, Mainak Sarkar and Frances Steward), Journal of Human Development Vol. 4, No. 1 (March 2003), 73-101.
- "Political Bias in Policy Convergence. Privatization Choices in Latin America," World Politics Vol. 54, No.4 (July 2002), 462-493.
- "From Populism to Neoliberalism: Labor Unions and Market Reforms in Latin America," World Politics Vol .52, No. 2 (January 2000), 135-174.
- "Recovering Political Dynamics: Teachers' Unions and the Decentralization of Education in Argentina and Mexico", Journal of Inter-American Studies and World Affairs, Vol. 41, No. 1, (Spring 1999), 31-57.
- "The 1993 Argentine Elections" (with Ernesto Cabrera) in Electoral Studies, Vol. 13, No. 2, (1994), 150-156.
- "A New Law of Argentine Politics" (with Ernesto Calvo) in Steven Levitsky and Maria Victoria Murillo (eds) Argentine Democracy: the Politics of Institutional Weakness (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005).
- "Introduction" (with Steven Levitsky) in Steven Levitsky and Maria Victoria Murillo (eds.) Argentine Democracy: the Politics of Institutional Weakness, (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005).
- "Building Castles in the Sand? The Politics of Institutional Weakness in Argentina" " (with Steven Levitsky) in Steven Levitsky and Maria Victoria Murillo (eds.) Argentine Democracy: the Politics of Institutional Weakness, (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005).
- "Theory Building in a Context of Institutional Instability" (with Steve Levitsky) in Steven Levitsky and Maria Victoria Murillo (eds.) Argentine Democracy: the Politics of Institutional Weakness, (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005).
- "The Economic Effects of Unions in Latin America: Teachers' Unions and Education in Argentina" (with Mariano Tommasi, Lucas Ronconi, and Juan Sanguinetti) in Peter Kuhn and Gustavo Márquez (eds.) What Difference Do Unions Make?, (Washington DC: Inter-American Development Bank, 2005.)
- "Latin American Labor at the Cross-Roads" in Jorge I. Domínguez and Michael Shifter (eds) Democratic Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003).
- "Industrial Competition and Union Responses to Macro-Economic and Sector-Specific Adjustment in Mexico" in Christopher Candland and Rudra Sil (eds). Industrial Relations in the Age of Globalization, (Oxford University Press, 2001).
- "Union Politics, Market-Oriented Reforms and the Reshaping of Argentine Corporatism" in Douglas Chalmers et al. (eds.), The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America: Rethinking Participation and Representation, (Oxford University Press, 1997).
- "A Strained Alliance: Continuity and Change in Mexican Labor Politics," in Monica Serrano ed. Mexico: Assessing Neo-Liberal Reform (Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, 1997).
- "The Politics of Freeing Markets in Latin America. Chile, Argentina, and Mexico" by Judith Teichman in Journal of Latin America Studies Vol. 35, No.1 (February 2003).
- "Mandates and Democracy" by Susan Stokes, Studies in Comparative International Development Vol 37, No.3 (Fall 2002).
- "Privatization South American Style" by Luigi Manzetti, APSR, Vol. 95, No.1 (March 2001.)
- "Organizing Dissent: Unions, the State, and the Democratic Teachers' Movement in Mexico" by Maria Lorena Cook, Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol. 51 (1999.)
- "Heroic Defeats: The Politics of Job Loss" by Miriam Golden, APSA-Comparative Politics. Newsletter of the APSA organized section in Comparative Politics, Vol. 9, No.1 (Winter 1998.)
Publications in Spanish
Books- Sindicatos, Coaliciones Partidarias y Reformas de Mercado en América Latina (Siglo XXI Editores, Madrid, 2005) (Spanish translation of Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions and Market Reforms in Latin America).
- Carreras Magisteriales, Desempeño Educativo y Sindicatos de Maestros en América Latina, (FLACSO-Argentina, 2003).
- "Teorias sobre instituciones débiles. Lecciones del caso argentino" in Sergio Emiliozzi, Mario Pecheny and Martin Unzue (eds) La dinámica de la democracia: representación, instituciones y ciudadanía en Argentina (Prometeo, Buenos Aires 2007).
- "Los trabajadores en América Latina" in Jorge Domínguez and Michael Shifter (eds.) Construcción gobernabilidad democrática en América Latina, Bogotá: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2005 (Spanish translation of "Latin American Labor at the
- "Privatización y Poder de Mercado: el caso de la generación de energía eléctrica en Argentina. Nota de investigación" (with Diego Finchelstein), Desarrollo Económico, Vol 44, Nº 173 (April-June 2004).
- Respuesta a "Crisis del sindicalismo en America Latina" de Francisco Zapata in Labour Again, Internacional Study of Social History (http://www.iisg.nl/labouragain/debate.html).
- "Profesión Docente, Sindicalismo Magisterial y Concertación Educativa" in Maria Victoria Murillo (ed) Carreras Magisteriales, Desempeño Educativo y Sindicatos de Maestros en America Latina (FLACSO-Argentina, 2003).
- "Tango de un desencanto anunciado," Foreign Affairs en Español, vol.2, No.2 (Summer 2002).
- "El sindicalismo latinoamericano en la encrucijada", Política y Gobierno, volume VIII, number 2, (June-December 2001.)
- "Una aproximación al estudio del sindicalismo docente en América Latina" Estudios Sociológicos, Vol. XIX, No. 55, January-April 2001 and Guillermina Tiramonti and Daniel Filmus (eds) Sindicalismo Docente y Reforma Educativa en América Latina, Flacso-Temas, 2001.
- "El fin de la dictadura perfecta", Escenarios Alternativos, No.11, Fall 2001.
- "Del populismo al neoliberalismo: sindicatos y reforma de mercado en America Latina". Desarrollo Económico, No.158, July-September 2000 (Spanish translation of "From Populism to Neoliberalism").
- "Sindicalismo docente y reforma educativa en América Latina", Propuesta Educativa, No.21, December 1999.
- "La adaptación del sindicalismo argentino a las reformas de mercado durante la primera presidencia de Menem", Desarrollo Económico, No.147, vol. 37, October-December, 1997.
- "Los sindicatos latinoamericanos y las reformas del sector social: restricciones institucionales y políticas alternativas", Revista Argentina de Ciencia Política, No.1, November 1997.
- Los sindicatos frente a la reforma del estado en Argentina y México," Sociedad, No 8, April 1996.
Works in Progress
- "When Parties Meet Voters: Partisan Networks and Distributive Expectations in Argentina and Chile" (with Ernesto Calvo).
- "Voting for the Left or Governing on the Left?" (with Milan Vaishnav and Virginia Oliveros).
- "Partisan Reforms in Latin American Public Utilities" (with Cecilia Martinez-Gallardo).
Other Awards
Columbia University- ILAS, Political Economy Faculty Group (joint with Pablo Pinto, 2007, 2008 ($5000 yearly).
- ILAS Faculty Research Grant, 2008 ($4,000).
- ILAS Faculty Research Grant, 2007 ($4,000).
- ILAS, Summer Faculty Grant, 2006 ($1,500)
- ISERP Seed Grant, 2004 ($5,000).
- CIBER Faculty Summer Award, 2004 ($4,000)
- Co-PI in collective IGERP Award granted by the National Science Foundation for New International Development and Globalization Program at Columbia University, 2003 ($ 3,707,857).
- Yale Center for International and Area Studies, Faculty Research Grant, 2002 ($4,000).<
- Carnegie Program for the Study of Globalization, Collective Grant on "Global Institutions, Local Practices," 2002 ($6,000 for each member).
- Leitner Program in Political Economy Faculty Research Grants, 2001 ($2,500).
- Leitner Program in Political Economy Faculty Research Grants, 2000 ($2,000).
- Yale Center for International and Area Studies, Faculty Research Grant, 2001 ($3,000).
- Yale Center for International and Area Studies, Faculty Research Grant, 2000 ($6,000)
- Yale Council on Latin American Studies, Faculty Research Grants, 2000 ($1,500)
- Junior Faculty Fellowship in the Social Sciences, 1999 (one year paid leave).
- Committee for the Social Science Review Fund, Yale University, 1999 ($2,500).
- Griswold Committee Fund, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, 1999 ($2,500).<
- Yale Center for International and Area Studies, Faculty Research Grant ,1999 ($5,000).
- Yale Council on Latin American Studies, Faculty Research Grants, 1999 ($1,500).
- Center for International Affairs, Graduate Research Fellow, 1993-94.
- Mellon Foundation Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 1994-95.
- David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Summer Grant 1996.
- CFIA Nomos Program Fellowship, 1996.
- Fundación Harvard en México 1995.
- CLAS Nomos Program Field Research Grant, 1994.
- Tinker Foundation Summer Grant, 1992.
- Harvard University Graduate Fellowship 1991-1993.
- Institute for the Study of World Politics, International Peace Fund Grant, 1995.
- Ministry of Culture and Education, Argentine Republic, Graduate Studies Grant, 1994-95.
- American Political Science Association, Foreign Students' Grant, 1994.
- Organization of American States, Graduate Studies Fellowship, 1993-94.<
- Ford Foundation, Graduate Studies Fellowship, declined.
- University of Buenos Aires, Junior Research Fellowship, 1988-1990.
Selected Professional Service
- American Political Science Association: Chair of the Sage Award Committee for the best paper in comparative politics, Chair of the Gregory Luebbert Award Committee for the best article in comparative politics in 2006, member of the Gregory Luebbert Award Committee for the best book on comparative politics in 2004.
- National Science Foundation: Grant Reviewer, National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, National Science Agency (Argentina), National Commission of Scientific and Technologic Research (Argentina).<
- Editorial Board Member: Foreign Affairs en Español, Secuencia (Mexican Social Science Journal), Res Publica (Argentinean Social Science Journal), Brazilian Political Science Review.
- Consultancies: State Department, Inter-American Development Bank, World Bank, Inter-American Dialogue.
- Latin American Academic Community: Board Member of the External Advisory Committee of Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica (Mexico), 2003-05, Coordinator, Network of Researchers on Teachers' Unions and Education Reform in Latin America, FLACSO-Argentina and PREAL.<
- Diffusion: O Globo TV (Brazil), CNN-International, CNN en Español, BBC, National Public Radio of Spain, Buenos Aires LS1 Radio Municipal, Pacifica Radio ("Our Americas"), the Council of the Americas, the Argentine Consulate in New York City, the Latin-American Advisor (Inter-American Dialogue, Washington, DC).
Ph.D. Dissertation Advising at Columbia
- Cecilia Martinez Gallardo, "Designing Cabinets: Presidents, Politics and Policymaking in Latin America" (defended 2005).
- Ozge Kemahlioglu, "When the Agent Becomes the Boss: The Politics of Public Employment in Argentina and Turkey" (defended 2006).
- James He Keon Kim, "Constrained Unilateralism: Comparing Institutional Foundations of Executive Decrees" (defended April 2007).
- Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro, "Choosing clientelism: political competition, poverty, and social welfare policy in Argentina" (defended April 2008).
- Katherine Baldwin, "What Good is Patronage? Local Public Goods and Private Goods as Alternative Types of Patronage."
- Pablo Calvi (School of Journalism), "Reporting on the Future: an Approach to Business Journalism and its Impact on the Markets. The Latin American Experiences in the Nineties."
- Carmen Le Foulon, "Alternative Mechanisms of Security against Government Expropriation: Firms Response to Changing Circumstances."
Courses Taught
Columbia University- Issues in Comparative Politics (Political Science PhD seminar)
- State and Society in the Developing World (SIPA advanced seminar)
- Labor in a Global Economy (SIPA advanced seminar)
- Comparative Public Policy (Political Science PhD seminar)
- Latin American Political Economy (Political Science senior seminar)
- Analytic Comparative Politics (PhD seminar)
- Markets and States in Comparative Perspective (PhD seminar)
- Politics of Latin American Economic Development (senior seminar)
- Democratization and Political Representation in Latin America (lecture class)
- Labor Politics in a Globalized World (honors seminar for Economic and Political Development concentration)
- Latin American Economic and Political Development (visiting professor, July 2001)
- Introduction to Rational Choice Theories (visiting professor, August 1999).
Conferences and Colloquia Organized
Columbia University- Faculty Group on the Political Economy of Latin America, ILAS, 2006-present.
- Comparative Politics Seminar Series, Dept. of Political Science 2005-present.
- Latin American Social Science
Seminar Series, Institute for Latin American Studies, 2003-04.
- Latin American Public Policy Speaker Series, Council on Latin American Studies, 2002.
- "Old Populism, New Populism in Latin America," Yale University (with Gilbert Joseph), April 7-8, 2000.
- Colloquia on Decentralization and Development (with Arun Agrawal), 1999-2000.
- Conference on Institutional Reforms, Growth and Human Development in Latin America, Yale Center for International Studies and Council of Latin American Studies (with Gustav Ranis), April 16-17, 1999.
- Regional Seminar "Social Pacts and Education Reform in Latin America," San Pedro Sula, Honduras, November 19-20, 2001
- Regional Workshop "Education Work and Teacher Incentives in Latin America," Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, May 30, 2001.
- Regional Workshop "School Autonomy and Teachers' Unions in Latin America," Guayaquil, March 15-16, 2001.
- "Rethinking Dual Transitions: Argentine Politics in the 1990s in Comparative Perspective," Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, March 20-22, 2003.
- Conference on Economic Reforms and Civil Society in Latin America, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, April 12, 1996.
- Co-Chair of the Latin American Seminar (with Jorge Dominguez), Center for International Affairs and David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 1995-96 and 1997.
- Co-Chair of the Labor Studies Colloquia (with Miguel Glatzer), Center for European Studies, 1994-95.
International Academic Experience
Argentina- PREAL-Inter-American Dialogue-FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales), Coordinator, Preal Network of Researchers on Teachers' Unions and Education Reform in Latin America, 2000-01.
- Universidad de San Andrés, Research Associate, 1998-2001.
- Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Visiting Fellow, Summer 1995.
- EURAL, research assistant, 1989-90.
- Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica (CIDE), Visiting Researcher, December 2000-February 2001.
- El Colegio de México, Visiting Fellow, Spring 1995.
- Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Visiting Fellow, Spring 1995
- Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Visiting Research Fellow, Summer 1993.
- Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Visiting Researcher, October-November 2000 and March 2001.
- Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración (IESA), Visiting Research Fellow, Summers 1996 and 1994.
Professional Presentations
- Political Linkages and Partisan Networks: Measuring the Size and Structure of Political Parties in Argentina and Chile" (with Ernesto Calvo) paper presented at the Conference on "Elections and Distribution," Yale University, October 26-27, 2007.
- "Voice and Light: The Politics of Public Utility Reform in Latin America", paper presented at The Ohio State University (November 2006), University of Wisconsin (February 2007), Michigan University (October 2007), and Princeton University (December 2007).
- "Political Identity and Policy Implementation," paper presented at the conference Democracy, Governance and Identity, International Institute, University of Michigan, May 5-6, 2006.<
- "Variation in Institutional Strength in Latin America: Causes and Implications," (with Steven Levitsky) paper presented at the 2006 Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 15-18, 2006, the University of Buenos Aires, June 20, 2006, and the University Di Tella, June 29, 2006.
- "Union Democracy in Latin America" in the roundtable on union democracy around the world at the conference "Union Democracy Reexamined", University of Washington, Seattle, February 24-25, 2006.
- "Policymaking Patterns: Privatization and Regulation of Latin American Public Utilities," presented at the comparative politics seminar, Stanford University, May 23, 2005, the Comparative Politics Workshop at the University of Chicago, November 9, 2005, and the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley on December 2, 2005, and the Watson Institute Colloquium on Comparative Research on December 7, 2005.
- "Policymaking under Pressure from Globalization: Reforming Public Utilities in Latin America," presented at the comparative politics seminar, University of Pennsylvania, April 15, 2005.
- "Policymakers' Agency under Globalization Pressures: Liberalizing Public Utilities in Latin America," paper presented at the American Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, September 2004 and Latin American Studies Association, Las Vegas, October 2004.<
- "Who Delivers?: Partisan Clients in the Argentina Electoral Market," presented at the conference on "Rethinking Dual Transitions: Argentine Politics in the 1990s in Comparative Perspective" March 27-29, 2003 and at the LASA 2003 Meeting, March 26-29, Dallas, TX and at the Leitner Conference on Globalization, Yale University, May 2004.
- "Partisanship Amidst Convergence: Labor Market Re-regulation in Latin America," Faculty Seminar, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, December 12, 2003 and Comparative Politics Seminar, Duke University, April 7, 2003, and Seminar on Labor and Class Struggle at Columbia University, December 15, 2003.
- "The Politicization of Public Sector Labor Relations: The Case of Argentine Education," presented at the Columbia University Seminar on Globalization, Labor and Popular Struggles, January 28, 2001, Seminar on Comparative Politics, Brown University, Watson Institute, April 19, 2002 and at the Latin America Seminar, Harvard University, September 24, 2002.
- "Partisan Bias in Policy Choice: Privatization Choices in Latin America," presented at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, December 11, 2001, at the Institute for Latin American Studies, Columbia University, October 29,2001, at the Kellogg Institute, University of Notre Dame, February 14, 2002, at Johns Hopkins University, May 28, 2002, at ITAM, Mexico City, October 2, 2002, and at CIDE, Mexico City, October 11, 2002.
- "Conviction versus Necessity: Public Utility Privatization in Argentina, Chile and Mexico", American Political Science Association Meeting, San Francisco, August 30-September 2, 2001.
- "Labor Unions, Democracy, and Economic Liberalization in Latin America," Latin American Association Meeting, Washington, DC, September 5-8, 2001.
- "Utilities privatization in Latin America: A Comparative View from Argentina, Chile, and Mexico," conference on "Is there a future for Private Utilities in Latin America?", David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, MA, May 4-5, 2001.
- "El sindicalismo latinoamericano en la encrucijada" Seminar on "Mercado de Trabajo e Intervención Sindical", IDES, Buenos Aires, October 4-5, 2000.
- "Latin American Labor at the Cross Roads," paper presented at the conference on Democratic Governance in Latin America, Inter-American Dialogue, Washington, DC, September 29-30, 2000.
- "Labor Parties and Partisan Labor," presented at the XXII Conference of the Latin American Studies Association, Miami, March 16-18, 2000.
- "From Public to Private: the Politics of Public Utility Privatization in Argentina," presented at the 95th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, September 2-5, 1999.
- "Labor Unions and Privatization in Post-populist Governments: a Comparative View of Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela", conference "Labor and Privatization: a Global View at Comparative Consequences", Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, March 5-6, 1999.
- "Latin American Unions and the Reform of the State: Neocorporatism Revisited," paper presented at the Conference "Economic Reforms and Civil Society in Latin America," David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, April 12, 1996.
- "Institutional Legacies and Union Preferences Facing the Transformation of Labor-Based Parties: The Case of Mexico in Comparative Perspective," paper presented at the Conference "Coalitions Under Stress: Governing Labor-Based Parties in a Liberalizing World," Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, January 12-13, 1996.<
- "Union Responses to Economic Reform in Argentina," paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, New York, September 1-4, 1994.
- "Organizational Autonomy and the Marketization of Corporatism," paper presented at the XVIII conference of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington, DC, March 10-12, 1994.
- "Breaking the Praetorian Circle or the Hope for Democracy: Why was 1983's Transition to Democracy in Argentina More Successful than 1973's," paper presented at the XVII Latin American Studies Association International Congress, Los Angeles, September 24-27,1992.