Public policy and territory
I examine how state interventions in low-income neighborhoods affect responsibility attribution, policy preferences, and voting behavior.
Georeferenced data · causal inference · fieldworkI am a political scientist and PhD candidate at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (UTDT). My research lies at the intersection of comparative politics and international political economy, with a focus on the domestic politics of economic policy in Latin America. A central question in my current research agenda is who receives political credit—and who is blamed—when the state intervenes in low-income urban neighborhoods.
Alongside my doctoral research, I am an Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics at UNLaM. My research experience includes collaborations with U.S. Ivy League universities, including Brown University and Cornell University, as well as with Argentina’s CONICET.
My work focuses on social movements and the political consequences of public policy implementation. I am particularly interested in how organized communities mediate state interventions and shape electoral accountability. I also study interest representation more broadly, including how social movements and business groups gain access to political institutions, influence policymaking, and shape the distributive consequences of public policy.
My research examines how states, organized interests, and financial institutions shape policy implementation, political representation, and distributive outcomes across Latin America. I combine causal inference, comparative methods, and field-based research.
I examine how state interventions in low-income neighborhoods affect responsibility attribution, policy preferences, and voting behavior.
Georeferenced data · causal inference · fieldworkI study when territorial embeddedness and public-goods provision translate into electoral support for candidates linked to social organizations.
Subnational politics · surveys · mixed methodsThis project asks under what conditions the digitization of informal income expands financial inclusion—and when it instead produces household over-indebtedness. It combines cross-national regression with in-depth comparison of typical and deviant cases selected from model residuals.
Global Findex · ILOSTAT · cross-national regression · residual-based case selectionI investigate tenure, reelection, and the return of political experience in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies since 1983.
Longitudinal data · institutional analysisBy comparing the historical-comparative design in Collier and Collier (1991), the theory-building case study in Schmitter (1971), and the cross-national instrumental-variable design in Acemoglu et al. (2001), this paper examines how different methods construct causal explanations. It argues for a demanding methodological pluralism attentive to trade-offs among temporality, causal mechanisms, endogeneity, and generalization.
Comparative methodology · causal inference · research designPeer-reviewed research, manuscripts in the editorial process, and ongoing projects.
Peer-reviewed article
The article examines the relationship between territorial presence, public-works implementation, and electoral support for social-movement candidates in La Matanza.
Editorial process · POSTData
Legislative careers, tenure, and discontinuous political experience in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies.
Article · in preparation
A comparative assessment of historical-comparative, theory-building case-study, and instrumental-variable approaches to causal explanation.
Book chapter · in preparation
With Caio Cardoso de Moraes. Chapter for a Springer volume on lobbying regulation in Latin America.
Ongoing research
Uses a difference-in-differences design to estimate the causal effect of halted socio-urban integration projects on the Peronist vote in Argentina’s low-income neighborhoods.
Ongoing research
Examines when the digitization of informal earnings expands financial inclusion and when it leads to household over-indebtedness. It uses a comparative mixed-methods design combining Global Findex and ILOSTAT data, cross-national regressions, and typical and deviant cases selected from model residuals.
University teaching and specialized training in comparative politics, political theory, and international political economy.
Comparative Political Systems · UNLaM
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