I am Associate Professor of Political Science and Associate Research Fellow at the Center for Inter-American Policy and Research and the Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University.

My research interests include political behavior, clientelism, corruption, and patronage politics, with a regional focus on Latin America. My book, Patronage at Work: Public Jobs and Political Services in Argentina (Cambridge University Press, 2021), focuses on the political use of public employment and received the Donna Lee Van Cott Award from the Political Institutions Section of LASA and the Charles H. Levine Memorial Book Prize (IPSA). A 2019 edited volume, Campaigns and Voters in Developing Democracies (with Noam Lupu and Luis Schiumerini, University of Michigan Press), examines the determinants of vote choice in developing countries. In May 2013, I received my Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University.

My research has appeared in American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Latin American Research Review, and Studies in Comparative International Development, among other outlets.

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Political Science Department

Tulane University

6823 St. Charles Avenue

Norman Mayer Building, Room 310

New Orleans, LA 70118

Email: volivero@tulane.edu