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Posted Oct 19, 2009
Prof. Victoria Murillo Releases New Publication
Join the Institute of Latin American Studies to celebrate the book release of Columbia University's Associate Professor of Political Science, Dr. Victoria Murillo. Professor Murillo's new book, Political Competition, Partisanship, and Policy Making in Latin American Public Utilities, has been described as "...a splendid, shrewd book on the political economy of policy reform and policy making in Latin
America. Focusing on the regulation of two key economic sectors, telecommunications and electricity, Murillo shows that, even at the height of the liberalization and privatization waves of the last decades, electoral competition and the partisan composition of governments crucially mattered to explain how politics and distributional considerations shape the economy" (Carles Boix, Princeton University).
Masters Program in Latin American and Caribbean Studies
The new Masters program in Latin American and Caribbean Studies begins Fall 2009.