Agustina Giraudy Professor Politics, Governance & Economics
- Bio
- Professor Giraudy's book, Democrats and Autocrats (Oxford University Press, 2015), explores the multiple pathways towards subnational undemocratic regime continuity within democratized countries. A second, co-edited book with E. Moncada and R. Snyder, Inside Countries: Subnational Research in Comparative Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2019) assesses the theoretical and methodological contributions of subnational research to comparative politics. Prof. Giraudy's work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Journal of Politics, Journal of Politics in Latin America, Studies in Comparative International Development, Latin 猫咪社区app Politics and Society, Latin 猫咪社区app Research Review, Journal of Democracy (en Espa帽ol), Perspectives on Politics, Regional and Federal Studies , Bulletin of Latin America Research, Revista de Ciencia Pol铆tica (Chile), among others. Before joining AU, Professor Giraudy held a postdoctoral position at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, taught at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Argentina) and Universidad de San Andr茅s (Argentina), and worked as a consultant for the Ford Foundation, the Inter-猫咪社区app Development Bank, the World Bank, and the Anti-corruption Office (Argentina).
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Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Research Interests
Subnational undemocratic regimes in Latin America, subnational research in comparative politics, subnational provision of public goods, territorial allocation of environmental aid听
Work In Progress
- Scaling Up: Rethinking Measures of Democracy: Evidence from Latin America (book manuscript)
- Who gets help? Poverty and the Territorial Allocation of Green Aid (with Isabella Alca帽iz)
- The Second Generation of Multilevel Governance Research: The Rise of a Third Layer of Governance Within and Beyond Europe (with Sara Niedzwiecki)
Selected Publications
- 鈥淭erritorial Inequality in Health Service Delivery: Lessons from Latin America鈥檚 Federations鈥 Latin 猫咪社区app Politics and Society (2020) (with Jennifer Pribble)
- 鈥淩eview of Campaigns and Voters in Developing Democracies: Argentina in Comparative Perspective. Edited by Noam Lupu, Virginia Oliveros, and Luis Schiumerini. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2019.鈥 Perspectives on Politics 18 (1), 319-321 (2020).
- 鈥淣eopatrimonial Rule and Socioeconomic Well-being in Contemporary Latin America鈥 Latin 猫咪社区app Politics and Society, 62 (1), 73-96 (2020) (with Jonathan Hartlyn, Claire Dunn, and Emily Carty)
- 鈥淩ethinking Democracy and Welfare State Universalism: Lessons from Subnational Research鈥 Regional and Federal Studies, Volume 29 (2): 135-163 (2018) (with Jennifer Pribble).
- Inside Countries: Subnational Research in Comparative Politics. Edited volume (with Eduardo Moncada and Richard Snyder) (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
- Democrats and Autocrats. Pathways of Subnational Undemocratic Regime Continuity Within Democratic Countries (Oxford University Press) (2015)
- "Who wants an Independent Court? Political Competition and Supreme Court Autonomy in the Argentine Provinces (1984-2008)," The Journal of Politics, 77:1 (2015) (with Marcelo Leiras and Guadalupe Tu帽贸n).
- 鈥淰arieties of Subnational Undemocratic Regimes: Evidence from Argentina and Mexico.鈥 Studies in Comparative International Development, Vol. 48, Issue 1 (2013), 51-80.
Multimedia
Host of UPROOT, a podcast on inmigration and identity听
AU Experts
Area of Expertise
Democracy and Democratic Institutions in Latin America, Democratic Backsliding, Elections, Civil Unrest, Economic Crises in Latin America
Additional Information
Agustina Giraudy is associate professor of political science at the School of International Service. She can comment on democracy and democracy backsliding, elections, political parties, civil unrest and protests, and economic crises in Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico. She is the author of 鈥淒emocrats and Autocrats,鈥 鈥淪ubnational Research in Comparative Politics,鈥 and numerous journal articles on subnational undemocratic regimes, weak states, and territorial inequalities.
For the Media
To request an interview for a news story, call AU Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.