I 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.

Interests

  • Comparative politics
  • International political economy
  • Public policy
  • Electoral accountability
  • Social movements
  • Interest representation

Education

  1. PhD in Political ScienceUniversidad Torcuato Di Tella2024–present
  2. MA in Political ScienceUniversidad Torcuato Di Tella
  3. BA in Political ScienceUniversidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero

Research

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.

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 · fieldwork

Social movements and representation

I study when territorial embeddedness and public-goods provision translate into electoral support for candidates linked to social organizations.

Subnational politics · surveys · mixed methods

Informal, Yet Visible: Digital Wallets and Financial Inclusion without Labor Formalization

This 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 selection

Institutions and legislative careers

I investigate tenure, reelection, and the return of political experience in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies since 1983.

Longitudinal data · institutional analysis

Conjunctures, Mechanisms, and Estimators: The Case for Methodological Pluralism in Comparative Politics

By 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 design

Publications

Peer-reviewed research, manuscripts in the editorial process, and ongoing projects.

Work in progress

Editorial process · POSTData

Federalism and Subnational Connection: Seniority and Incentives in Argentina’s Chamber of Deputies (1983–2025)

Legislative careers, tenure, and discontinuous political experience in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies.

Article · in preparation

Conjunctures, Mechanisms, and Estimators: The Case for Methodological Pluralism in Comparative Politics

A comparative assessment of historical-comparative, theory-building case-study, and instrumental-variable approaches to causal explanation.

Book chapter · in preparation

Lobbying Regulation in Argentina: Regulatory Gridlock and Interest Representation

With Caio Cardoso de Moraes. Chapter for a Springer volume on lobbying regulation in Latin America.

Ongoing research

When Construction Stops: The Suspension of Socio-Urban Integration Projects and the Peronist Vote in Argentina’s Low-Income Neighborhoods (2017–2025)

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

Informal, Yet Visible: Digital Wallets and Financial Inclusion without Labor Formalization

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.

Teaching

University teaching and specialized training in comparative politics, political theory, and international political economy.

2026–present

Assistant Professor

Comparative Political Systems · UNLaM

2024–2026

Political Theory

ISEN Entrance Exam Preparation

2024–2026

Economic and Political History of Argentina

ISEN Entrance Exam Preparation

2024–2026

History of International Political and Economic Relations

ISEN Entrance Exam Preparation

Contact

For academic inquiries, research projects, or working materials.