Research
Working Papers
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“Seeing Like a Citizen: Fragmented Citizenship in Intermediate States.”
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“Trading Off Democracy for Security? Evidence from Six Latin American Countries.”
With Beatriz Magaloni and Hanna Folsz.
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“Delivery or Democracy? Experimental Evidence from Six Latin American Countries.”
With Beatriz Magaloni and Christopher Dann.
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“Political Consultants in Latin America.”
With Joaquim Meira.
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“Democracy in Costa Rica.”
In
Central America’s Democratic Crisis: Drivers of Backsliding and Sources of Resilience,
edited by Steve Levitsky and Manuel Meléndez-Sánchez.
Book chapter in progress.
Research Experience
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Research Assistant, Poverty, Violence, and Governance Lab, Stanford University
— 2022–2023
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Visiting Researcher, Facultad de Gobierno, Universidad de Chile
— 2022
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Research Assistant, Center on Poverty and Inequality, Stanford University
— 2020–2021
Presentations
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“Constraints on Executive Aggrandizement in Costa Rica.”
Roundtable, “Democracy and Authoritarianism in Central America:
Explaining Twenty-First Century Regime Trajectories,”
LASA Central America Regional Symposium
— 2026
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“Fragmented Citizenship.”
Symposium of Undergraduate Research, Stanford University
— 2023
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“Fragmented Citizenship.”
National Student Research Conference, Pi Sigma Alpha
— 2023
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“Una Ciudadanía Desigual.”
Facultad de Gobierno, Universidad de Chile
— 2022
Public Outreach