Maria Victoria Murillo (PhD Harvard 1997) holds a joint appointment with the Department of Political Science and the School of International and Public Affairs.

Murillo is the author of Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions, and Market Reforms in Latin America (Cambridge University Press 2001), which was translated as Sindicatos, Coaliciones Partidarias y Reformas de Mercado en América Latina  by Siglo XXI Editores (Madrid, 2005 and Argentina, 2007) and Political Competition, Partisanship, and Policymaking in the Reform of Latin American Public Utilities (Cambridge University Press, 2009). She is also the co-editor of Argentine Democracy: the Politics of Institutional Weakness (Pennsylvania State University Press 2005) Carreras Magisteriales, Desempeño Educativo y Sindicatos de Maestros en América Latina (Flacso-Argentina, 2003), and Discutir Alfonsín (Siglo XXI-Argentina, 2010). Her work has also appeared in World Politics, American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, World Development, the Annual Review of Political Science, and many Latin American academic journals.

Murillo's research on distributive politics in Latin America has covered labor politics and labor regulations, public utility reform, education reform, and economic policy more generally. Her work on political parties analyzes both their coalitional and policy implications as well as their linkages with voters in new democracies. Her empirical work is based on a variety of methods ranging from quantitative analysis of datasets built for all Latin American countries to qualitative field work in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and Venezuela and survey and experiments in Argentina and Chile.

Murillo received her BA from the Universidad de Buenos Aires and her MA and PhD from Harvard University. Murillo has taught at Yale University, was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and a Fulbright fellow.

Research interests: Argentina, Latin American politics, economics, labor

Professor Murillo is on leave for the 2011-12 academic year.