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Claudia Nancy Avellaneda
Contact Information O’ Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
1315 East Tenth Street, Bloomington, IN 47405; Office: (812) 856-9026; [email protected]
Education Ph.D., Political Science, Texas A&M University. December 2007.
Fields: Public Administration/Public Policy, Latin American Politics, Comparative Politics
M.A., Political Science, Texas A&M University-Kingsville (with distinction). August 2002.
B.S., Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca, Bogotá, Colombia.
Citizenship Colombian-American
Academic Appointments2017 – 2019 2018 – 2019 2014 – present 2014 – present 2014 – present 2013 – present
2012 – 2013
2008 – 2013
2007 – 2008
Chair, Governance and Management Faculty, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Faculty Fellow, Public Policy Institute, Indiana University
Faculty Affiliate, Political Science Department, Indiana University
Faculty Affiliate, Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University
Faculty Affiliate, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Associate Professor, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana
University
Graduate Coordinator, Latin American Studies, University of North Carolina-
Charlotte. Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina-Charlotte.
Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Texas A&M University.
Fields of Research Interest Governance and Public Management in Developing Countries, Local Governments, Latin American Politics,
Decentralization, Innovation, Comparative Public Policy, and Chief Executives’ Decision-Making.
Professional Activities • President of the Midwest Public Administration Caucus, 2019-2020 • Editor, Local Government Studies, 2020-
• International Editor: Journal of Behavioral Public Administration, 2018-present
• Editorial Board: Public Management Review, 2014-present
• Editorial Board: The Brazilian Journal of Public Administration (RAP), 2018-present
• Editorial Board: Gobernar: Journal of Latin American Public Policy and Governance, 2017-present
• Editorial Board: Public Service Review (Revista do Serviço Público), 2016-present
• Editorial Board: Fudan Public Administration Review, 2015-present.
• Editorial Board: Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 2011-2018.
• Editorial Board: Public Administration Review, 2014-2017
• Editorial Board: Urban Affairs Review, 2016-2018
• Elected Member to the 2017-2021 Public Management Research Association (PMRA) Governing Board. • Member, Program Committee for the 2020 Public Management Research Conference • Member, American Political Science Association (APSA) 2020 John Gauss Lecture Award Committee
• Member, PMRA Nomination and Elections Committee, 2019-present.
• Member, PMRA Internationalization Committee II, 2018-present.
• Member, PMRA Book Series Committee, 2017-2019
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• Member of the Deil S. Wright Best Paper Award Committee. Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations
Section, APSA, 2018-2019.
• Member on the 2018-2019 Kaufman Best Paper Award Committee in the Public Administration Section in the
American Political Science Association.
• Co-Organizer of the Workshop on Experiments and Elites in the 2020 Southern Political Science
Association and in the 2019 Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL and
• Section Head for Public Administration at the 76th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science
Association, April 2018.
• Member, the External Assessment Committee for the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas
(CIDE), Mexico City, 2017-present.
• Member, 2017 Nominating Committee for President of the Southern Political Science Association.
• Member, Public Management Research Association Strategic Committee, 2017.
• Member, 2017 John Kincaid Best Article Award in Publius, Journal of the Federalism and
Intergovernmental Relations Section of the American Political Science Association
• Member, Laverne-Burchfield Award Committee for the best 2016 book review published at
Public Administration Review.
• Member, American Society of Public Administration. 2016 Dwight Waldo Award Committee.
• Member, 2016 Southern Political Science Association Program Committee and Coordinator of the
Spanish Language Panels.
• Member, International Advisory Board (IBM) of the Public Management Evidence Lab (PuMEL) in the
Department of Public Policy at City University of Hong Kong, 2014-present.
• Member, 2015 Frederickson Award Committee in the Public Management Research Association.
• Member, 2015 and 2016 Kaufman Best Paper Award Committee in the Public Administration Section in the
American Political Science Association.
• Member, 2015 Carlo Masini Award Committee. Academy of Management.
• ASPA 2015 Program Committee Track Reviewer of the Human Resource and Labor Management Section.
• Member, Scientific Committee for the “2011 Conference on Public Management in South and Central
Americas.” Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Publications
Book
Meier, Kenneth J., Amanda Rutherford, and Claudia N. Avellaneda. Eds. 2017. Comparative Public
Management: Why National, Environmental, and Organizational Context Matters. Washington, DC:
Georgetown University Press. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/49920
Articles in Refereed Journals
Suzuki, Kohei, Hyeson Ha, and Claudia Avellaneda. Forthcoming. “Direct and Non-linear Innovation Effects of Demographic Shifts.” Australian Journal of Public Administration.
Olvera, Johabed and Claudia N. Avellaneda. 2019. “Subnational Government Performance: Testing Multiple
Dimensions of Governors’ Experience.” Public Administration Review, 79 (3): 383-398. http://dx.doi.
org/10.1111/puar.13035
Piña, Gabriel and Claudia N. Avellaneda. 2019. “Central Government Strategies to Promote Local
Governments’ Transparency: Guidance or Enforcement?” Public Performance and Management Review,
42 (2): 357-382. DOI: 10.1080/15309576.2018.1462215
Claudia N. Avellaneda and Johabed Olvera. 2018. “Chief Executives’ Approval of Immigrants: Evidence from a
Survey Experiment of 101 Latin American and Caribbean Mayors.” Journal of Behavioral Public
Administration, 1(1): 1-16. https://doi.org/10.30636/jbpa.11.14
Piña, Gabriel and Claudia N. Avellaneda. 2018. “Do Collaborative Agreements Lead to Municipal
Isomorphism?” Public Management Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2017.1412116
*Third Place Kooiman Award for the Best Paper in Public Management Review for 2018
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Suzuki, Kohei and Claudia N. Avellaneda. 2018. “Women and Risk-Taking Behavior in Public Finance.” Public
Management Review, 20 (12): 1741-1767. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/
abs/10.1080/14719037.2017.1412118?journalCode=rpxm20
Avellaneda, Claudia N. and Eleonora Dávalos. 2017. “Identifying the Macro-Level Drivers of Adolescent
Fertility Rate in Latin America: The Role of School-Based Sexuality Education.” American Journal of
Sexuality Education, 12(4): 358-382. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15546128.2017.1372830
Avellaneda, Claudia N. and Ricardo Correa Gomes. 2017. “Mayoral Quality and Municipal Performance in
Brazilian Local Governments.” Organizacoes & Sociedade, 24(83): 555-579.
Avellaneda, Claudia N., Morgen Johansen and Kohei Suzuki. 2016. “What Drives Japanese INGOs to Operate
in Latin American Countries?” International Journal of Public Administration, 40(8): 670-683. https://doi.
org/10.1080/01900692.2016.1187165
Avellaneda, Claudia N. 2016. “Government Performance and Chief Executives’ Intangible Assets: Motives,
Networking, and/or Capacity?” Public Management Review, 18(6): 918-947. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719
037.2015.1051574
Walker, Richard, Frances Berry, and Claudia N. Avellaneda. 2015. “Limits on Innovativeness in Local
Government: Examining Capacity, Complexity, and Dynamism in Organizational Task Environments.” Public
Administration, 93(3): 663-683. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/padm.12159/epdf
Avellaneda, Claudia N. and Ricardo Correa Gomes. 2015. “Is Small Beautiful? Testing the Effects of Size on
Brazilian Municipal Performance.” Public Administration Review, 75(1); 137-149. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.
com/doi/10.1111/puar.12307/abstract
Petrovsky, Nicolai and Claudia N. Avellaneda. 2014. “Mayoral Public Sector Work Experience and Tax Collection Performance in Colombian Local Governments.” International Public Management Journal, 17(2):145-173. https://doi.org/10.1080/10967494.2014.905406
Avellaneda, Claudia N. 2013. “Mayoral Decision Making: Issue Salience, Decision Context and Choice
Constraint? An Experimental Study with 120 Latin American Mayors.” Journal of Public Administration
Research and Theory, 23(3): 631-661.
*Selected by JPART as one of the pieces appearing in the JPART 2014 Virtual Special Issue on Experiments in
Public Management. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/mus041
Brewer, Gene A., Richard M. Walker, Barry Bozeman, Claudia N. Avellaneda, and Gene A. Brewer Jr. 2012.
“External Control and Red Tape: The Mediating Effects of Client and Organizational Feedback.” International
Public Management Journal, 15(3): 288-314. https://doi.org/10.1080/10967494.2012.725291
Avellaneda, Claudia N. 2012. “Do Politics or Mayors’ Demographics Matter for Municipal Revenue
Expansion?” Public Management Review, 14(8): 1061-86. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2012.66244 2
Avellaneda, Claudia N., Felipe Botero, and Maria Escobar-Lemmon. 2012. “Policymaking in Parochial
Legislatures: What Laws Does the Colombian Congress Pass?” The Latin Americanist, 56(2): 7-33.
Avellaneda, Claudia N. and Maria Escobar-Lemmon. 2012. “All by Myself: The Role of Personal Qualifications
versus Party Affiliation in Colombian Mayoral Elections.” Latin American Politics and Society, 54(2):109-132.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/41485474.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A482f5a481502cfd79c08652558c55cba
Walker, Richard, Gene Brewer, George Boyne, Claudia N. Avellaneda. 2011. “Market Orientation and Public
Service Performance: NPM Gone Mad?” Public Administration Review, 71(5):707-717. http://onlinelibrary.
wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-6210.2011.02410.x/abstract
Walker, Richard, Claudia N. Avellaneda, and Frances Stokes Berry. 2011. “Exploring the Diffusion of
Innovation among High and Low Innovative Localities: A Test of the Berry and Berry Model.” Public
Management Review, 13(1): 95-125. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/
pdf/10.1080/14719037.2010.501616?needAccess=true
*Third place on the 2012 Kooiman Prize for the best paper in Public Management Review in 2011.
Avellaneda, Claudia N. 2009. “Municipal Performance: Does Mayoral Quality Matter? Journal of Public
Administration Research and Theory, 19(2): 285-312. https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/mun001
Avellaneda, Claudia N. 2009. “Mayoral Quality and Local Public Finance.” Public Administration Review,
May/June: 469-486. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-6210.2009.01993.x/pdf
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Damanpour, Fariborz, Richard Walker, and Claudia N. Avellaneda. 2009. “Combinative Effects of Innovation
Types on Organizational Performance: A Longitudinal Study of Public Services.” Journal of Management
Studies, 46(4): 650-675. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-6486.2008.00814.x/abstract
Walker, Richard, Fariborz Damanpour, and Claudia N. Avellaneda. 2007. “Combinative Effects of Innovation
Types on Organizational Performance: A Longitudinal Study of Public Services.” Published in the Best Papers
Proceedings of the 2007 Academy of Management Meeting.
Chapters in Edited Books Avellaneda, Claudia N. and Ricardo Andrés Bello Gómez. Forthcoming. “Policy Analysis f0r Decision-making in
Colombian Local Governments.” In Pablo Sanabria and Nadia Rubaii (Eds.), Policy Analysis in Colombia.
University of Bristol: Policy Press.
Avellaneda, Claudia N., Ricardo Andres Bello Gomez, and Johabed Olvera. Forthcoming. “Explaining
Subnational Governance: The Role of Governors’ Codified and Uncodified Knowledge.” In J. Glückler, G.
Herrigel, and M. Handke (Eds.), Knowledge for Governance. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.
Olvera, Johabed and Claudia N. Avellaneda. 2017. “Performance Management and Public Administration.”
In William Thompson (Ed.), The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. New York: Oxford University
Press.
Avellaneda, Claudia N. 2017. “The Delegation of Municipal Spending: Does the Decision Context Matter?”
In Kenneth J. Meier, Amanda Rutherford, and Claudia N. Avellaneda (Eds.), Comparative Public
Management: Why National, Environmental, and Organizational Context Matter, pp. 154-173.
Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press
Gomes, Ricardo C. and Claudia N. Avellaneda. 2017. “Explaining Expansion of Brazilian Municipal Revenues:
Politics or Managerial Competency.” In Kenneth J. Meier, Amanda Rutherford, and Claudia N. Avellaneda
(Eds.), Comparative Public Management: Why National, Environmental, and Organizational Context
Matter, pp. 174-194. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
Sanabria, Pedro Pablo and Claudia N. Avellaneda. 2014. “Colombia.” In Montgomery Van Wart, Annie
Hondeghem, and Erwin Schwella (Eds.), Leadership and Culture: Comparative Models of Top Civil Servant,
Chapter 16. Palgrave Macmillan.
Rainey, Hal G., John Ronquillo, and Claudia N. Avellaneda. 2010. “Decision Making in Public Organizations.”
In Paul C. Nutt and David Wilson (Eds.), The Blackwell Handbook of Decision Making, pp. 349-377. Wiley-
Blackwell.
Book Reviews, Reports and Other Publications
Avellaneda, Claudia N. 2019. “Global Trends: Mexico in the Central American Context.” National Intelligence Council Global Trends.
Avellaneda, Claudia N. and Gabriel Pina. 2017. “Determinants of Property Value Reappraisals: A Critical
Question for Municipal Fiscal Health in Latin America.” Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Working Paper.
Meier, Kenneth J., Amanda Rutherford, and Claudia N. Avellaneda. 2017. Review and Comments on our
co-edited book, Comparative Public Management: Why National, Environmental, and Organizational
Context Matters. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press published in PUBLIC; ESADE’s Center for
Public Governance (ESADEgov) e-bulletin (ISSN 2013-2530).
Avellaneda, Claudia N. 2017. Review of Avoiding Governors: Federalism, Democracy, and Poverty
Alleviation in Brazil and Argentina, by Tracy Beck Fenwick. 2016. Latin American Politics and Society, 59
(1): 156-159.
Avellaneda, Claudia N, and Kohei Suzuki. 2015. “The conditioning effect of context on the managerial capacity- performance relationship. In Academy of Management Proceedings, 2015 (1): 18661.
Avellaneda, Claudia N. 2014. Review of Decentralization and Reform in Latin America: Improving
Intergovernmental Relations, by Giorgio Brosio and Juan Pablo Jimenez. Eds. 2013. Publius: Journal of
Federalism, 44(3): Summer 2014.
Gomes, Ricardo C. and Claudia N. Avellaneda. 2014. “Governo [Government].” Brasil em números [Brazil in
figures] Vol. 22. Rio de Janeiro. Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estadistica (IBGE). 2014. ISSN 1808-1983.
Pp.397-403.
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Work under Revise and Resubmit
Suzuki, Kohei and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “Does Organizational Structure Condition the Effect of Chief
Executives’ Abilities on Municipal Performance? The Japanese Case.”
Bello-Gomes, Ricardo, Johabed Olvera, and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “Management in Context: The Moderating
Effect of Party System on the Management-Performance Relationship.”
Muraoka, Taishi and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “When Do Managerial Networks Enhance Government
Performance?”
Zambrano, Julio and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “Municipal Response to Fiscal and Governance Reforms: Stricter Debt Limits’ Effects across Jurisdictions”
Articles under Review Avellaneda, Claudia N. and Julio Zambrano. “The (un)intended effects of regulatory burden on policy
effectiveness: Regulation targeting NGOs.”
Bello-Gomez, Ricardo Andres and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “I’d rather do it myself: An experiment examining mayoral preferences for managerial autonomy.”
Works in Progress Avellaneda, Claudia and Luis Enrique Becerra. “Explaining the Implementation of Mexican Merit System: A
longitudinal study: 2003-2019.
Olvera, Johabed, Julio Ramos and Claudia N. Avellaneda,. “Political Hawks vs. Technocrats: The Impact of
Governors’ Career Path on Gubernatorial Performance.”
Bello-Gomez, Ricardo Andres and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “I’d rather do it myself: An experiment examining mayoral preferences for managerial autonomy.”
de Oliveira Gomes, Adalmir and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “Explaining Domestic Violence against Women Reporting: Institutional, Cultural and/or Socio-economic Factors?
de Oliveira Gomes, Adalmir and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “Identifying the Drivers of Pro-women Institutions.” Catussi Paschoalotto, Marco Antonio and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “Testing the Moderating Effects of Size,
Context and Power Structure on the Management-Performance Relationship.”
Avellaneda, Claudia N. and Gabriel Pina. “Local Government Effectiveness: Assessing the Role of
Administrative Capacity.”
Olvera, Johabed and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “Explaining Mayoral Delegation in a Collaborative Arrangement:
Evidence from Mexican Mayors.” Avellaneda, Claudia N and Johabed Olvera and “Do Incentives Moderate Civil Servants’ Discretionary Authority
in a Transparent Context?” Avellaneda, Claudia N., Ricardo Andres Bello-Gomez, Johabed Olvera. “Decision Making: Self-Identified
Indigenous vs. Non-Indigenous Mayors.”
Helmke-Long, Laura and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “Waste Management in Latin America: A Review of the
Literature.”
Avellaneda, Claudia N. and Gabriel Piña. “Determinants of Property Value Reappraisals: A Critical Question
for Municipal Fiscal Health in Latin America.”
Suzuki, Kohei and Claudia Avellaneda. “New Public Management and Public Service Performance: Does NPM
Reform Boost Municipal Performance?”
Avellaneda, Claudia N. and Luis E. Becerra. “The Drivers of Meritocracy in Mexico.”
Avellaneda, Claudia N. and Ricardo Gomes. Local Governance in a Transitional Economy: Empirical
Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities
Avellaneda, Claudia N. “Colombian School Performance: Bureaucratic, Managerial, or Leadership Quality?”
Avellaneda, Claudia, Jill Nicholson-Crotty, and Meghann G. Rother. “Politics and Regulation:
Nongovernmental Organizations in Latin America.”
Recognition and Awards
• 2019-2020 President Midwest Public Administration Caucus, Midwest Political Science Association.
• 2019 Indiana University Distinguished Latino Faculty Award. IU Latino Faculty and Staff Council, April 19.
• 2019 Trustees Teaching Award. Indiana University.
• 2019 Garcia-Zamor Best Paper Award granted by the ASPA Section of International and Comparative
Administration (SICA). Ricardo Andrés Bello-Gomez, Johabed Olvera, and Claudia N. Avellaneda,
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“Management in Context: Informal Political Institutions and the Management-Performance Relationship.”
• Third Place Kooiman Award for the 2018 Best Paper in Public Management Review. • Keynote speaker on thematic area of Public Administration at 2019 EnANPAD Conference. The Association of
Research and Post-Graduate in Administration (ANPAD) in Brazil. São Paulo-SP, Brazil, October 2019.
• Elected Member of the 2017-2021 Public Management Research Association Governing Board.
• Nominated for the 2018 Latino Faculty and Staff Council Award, IU, April 2018. • Inaugural recipient of the Most Inclusive Award. Presented by the SPEA Student Community, April 2015.
• Guest Speaker at the Latino/Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration, Civic Leaders Center, Indiana University.
October 13, 2014.
• Keynote Speaker at the Global Brigades Exchange at Indiana University, April 18-19, 2014.
• Special Congratulation Letter from Philip L. Dubois, Chancellor of the University of North Carolina Charlotte,
for in the 2012-2013 Political Science Senior Student Survey, several students identified me as the one person
at UNC Charlotte who had made the most significant, positive contribution to their education, November
2013 and November 2014.
• Nominated for the 2013 Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP) Teaching Award for Junior
Faculty.
• Special Recognition at the International Women’s Day Celebration by the UNCC International Women’s Day
Committee. March 22, 2012.
• Keynote Speaker at the Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration. Latin American Student Association (LASO),
UNCC. October 13, 2011.
• Outstanding Duraniense Citizen. Presented by the Municipality of Durania, Norte de Santander, Colombia.
April 30, 2011.
• Latina Women’ Achievement Award. Presented by Latin American Student Organization at UNC-Charlotte.
March 23, 2011.
• Member of Pi Beta Delta, Honor Society for International Scholars, 2010-present.
• Outstanding Alumnae. Presented by the Colegio José María Córdoba, Durania, Norte de Santander, Colombia.
November 21, 2009.
• Artinian Travel Award at the 80th Annual Conference of the Southern Political Science Association, January
8-10, 2009.
• Doctoral Dissertation Nominated to the “Best Doctoral Dissertation in Public Administration” at the American
Political Science Association. 2008.
• Bryan D. Jones Award. Presented to the Outstanding Graduate Student in Political Science at Texas A&M
University. December 2007.
• Best Graduate Student Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Political Science
Association, San Antonio, TX. April 12-15, 2006.
• Mentor of the Year in the 2006-2007 Aggie Women in Leadership. Texas A&M University.
• Regents’ Graduate Fellowship, Texas A&M University. 2002-2003.
• Center for Teaching Effectiveness, Texas A&M University-Kingsville. Nominated for the “most professional,
best overall educator.” April 2002.
• International Exchange Education Fund Scholarship. Texas A&M University-Kingsville. April 27, 2001.
• Pan American Round Table-Corpus Christi, Texas Scholarship. May 2002 and March 2001.
• Political Science Departmental Merit Scholarship. Texas A&M University-Kingsville April 29, 2002; November
26, 2001; and April 23, 2001.
• Baker Pre-Law Scholarship, Texas A&M University-Kingsville. November 2001.
Grants
• Pi. Ostrom Workshop Seed Funding. ($4,720). Fall 2019. Unfunded.
• PI. CLACS Faculty Travel Grant (1,000). Fall 2019. Funded. • Co-PI. Emerging Areas of Research. “Empowered Democracy in Communities: Collaborative Systems for
Local Self-Governance in the 21st Century.” PI: Aaron Deslatte and Lisa Blomgren Amsler. 2019. (4,200.000). Unfunded.
• PI. IME-BECAS 2019. “Scholarships for Students with Mexican Background.” Mexican Minister of Foreign
Affairs. ($15,000). Spring 2019. Unfunded.
• PI. Indiana University Gateway Seed Grant. “Assessing Government Performance through Health
Indicators.” ($5,000). Spring 2019. Awarded.
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• PI. 2019 IU President’s International Research Award. “Government Performance: Assessing Health
Outcomes of Mexico City’s Doctor at Your Home Program.” Co-PI: Johabed Olvera, O’Neill School
doctoral student. February 1, 2019. ($150,000) Unfunded.
• CO-PI. CNPQ, Nacional Council for Scientific and Technological Development, Brazil. “Accountability in the Implementation of Public-Private Partnerships Programs.” PI, Ricardo Gomes, Co-PI, Stephen Osborne, Claudia Avellaneda, and Claudio Oliveira. (50,000 Brazilian Reals). Fall 2018. Awarded.
• Co-PI. Grand Challenge: Responding to the Addiction Crisis, Phase 2. “Community Collaborative Governance
to Address the Addictions Crisis.” PI: Lisa Blomgren Amsler. ($890,000). June 2018. Unfunded.
• PI. Public Policy Institute Research Fellow Grant. “Entrepreneurship and Innovation in City Government:
Nature or Nurture?” March 2018 ($24,500). Awarded.
• PI. IME-BECAS 2018. “Scholarships for Students with Mexican Background.” Mexican Minister of Foreign
Affairs. ($15,000) Awarded.
• PI. 2018 Ostrom Faculty Research Award. “Assessing Government Performance through Health Indicators.”
($10,000) Awarded.
• PI. 2018 IU President’s International Research Award. “Government Performance: Assessing Health
Outcomes of Mexico City’s Doctor at Your Home Program.” Co-PI: Johabed Olvera, O’Neill School
doctoral student. January 12, 2018. ($150,000) Unfunded.
• Team Member in SPEA Local Government Group for IU President’s Addiction Initiative Research Call.
“Empowering Indiana Communities to Address the Opioid Epidemic: Collaborative Systems for Local Self-
Governance in the 21st Century.” September 2017. PI Lisa Blomgren Amsler. ($2,000,000) Unfunded.
• Team Member in the Indiana University’s Emerging Areas of Research Proposal. “Empowered Democracy in
Communities: Collaborative Systems for Local Self-Governance in the 21st Century.” Fall 2017. PI: Lisa
Blomgren Amsler. ($3,000,000) Unfunded.
• PI. Climate & Development Knowledge Network: Climate Resilient Cities in Latin America. “Subnational
Urban Governance of Climate Resilience in Colombia” ($280,000). Unfunded.
• PI. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. “Identifying the Drivers of Land Policy Adoption in Mexican Cities.” June
2017 ($39,900). Unfunded.
• PI. Ostrom Faculty Research Award. “Collaborative Governance: The Role of Cultural Values in Partner
Selection.” February 2017 ($10,000). Awarded.
• PI. Public Policy Institute Research Fellow Grant. “Entrepreneurship and Innovation in City Government:
Nature or Nurture?” March 2017 ($24,500). Unfunded.
• Co-PI. National Council for Scientific and Technological Development. Brazil Ministry of Science, Technology
and Innovation. “Effectiveness in Local Revenue Expansion: Political Context or Administrative Capacity.”
Spring 2016. ($25,822). CNPQ Nº 01/201. Awarded.
• PI. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. “Determinants of Securing Financing and Implementation of Large-Scale
Urban Projects in Latin American Municipalities.” July 2016 ($29,000). Unfunded.
• Co-PI. National Council for Scientific and Technological Development. Brazil Ministry of Science, Technology
and Innovation. “Assessing the Impact of Brazilian More Doctors Program.” Spring 2016. ($27.000). CNPQ
Nº 005/2016. Unfunded.
• PI. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. “Effectiveness in Local Revenue Expansion: Political Context or
Administrative Capacity.” Fall 2015. ($27.822). Unfunded.
• PI. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Land Policy and Urban Development in Latin America. Fall 2015.
($30,000). Awarded.
• Academic Director. Study of the U.S. Institutes for Latin American Student Leaders on U.S. Government. State
Department. Spring 2015. ($1,027,272) Unfunded.
• Travel Grant. Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Indiana University. Fall 2013.
($300). Awarded.
• PI. Mayoral Leadership, Inter-municipal Cooperation and Regional Development: The Case of Honduras.
Institute for New Economic Thinking (with Qingfang Wang). Spring 2013. ($217,225) Unfunded.
• Diversity Mini-Grant. UNC-Charlotte, Spring 2013. ($2000) Awarded.
• Faculty Development Research Grant. UNC-Charlotte, 2013-2014. ($5900) Awarded.
• Co-PI. Exploring the Direct and Indirect Effects of NGOs on Civil Unrest in Central America and Colombia.
Minerva Research Initiative (with Maureen Brown). Fall 2012. ($950,000) Unfunded.
• College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Small Grant. UNCC, Fall 2011 ($1000), Fall 2012 ($1000). Awarded.
• International Travel Grant. UNCC, Fall 2012 ($500); Fall 2011. ($300). Awarded.
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• College of Liberal Arts and Sciences International Travel Support, Spring 2011. ($525). Awarded.
• College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Small Grant. UNCC, Spring 2010. ($1,000) Awarded.
• International Travel Grant. UNC-Charlotte, Fall 2010. ($300) Awarded. • Faculty Development Research Grant. UNC-Charlotte, 2010-2011. ($5,700) Awarded.
• Diversity Mini-Grant. UNCC, Spring 2010. (Co-PI with Greg Weeks). ($1,000) Awarded.
• Communications across the Curriculum Summer Institute Grant. UNCC, Spring, 2009 ($400), 2010.
($400) Awarded.
• International Travel Grant. UNC-Charlotte, Spring 2010. ($300).
• Artinian Travel Grant. 80th Annual Conference of the Southern Political Science Association, January 8-10,
2009. ($200) Awarded.
• International Travel Grant. UNC-Charlotte, Fall 2008. ($300) Awarded.
• College of Liberal Arts Dissertation Research Grant, Texas A&M University, Fall 2006. ($2500) Awarded.
• George Bush Presidential Library Foundation Grant, Spring 2006. ($700) Awarded.
• International Education Study Grant, Texas A&M-Kingsville, Summer 2003. ($2,000) Awarded.
Research Experience
• Field Research in Mexico, La Havana (Cuba), and Colombia. Spring 2019
• Field Research in Bogotá, Colombia. Summer 2018, Fall 2018.
• Field Research in Mexico to survey and interview mayors, August 2017
• Field research in Guatemala to interview and survey 100 mayors, Spring 2017.
• Field research in Mexico to survey and interview 60 mayors, August 2016.
• Field research in Honduras to conduct surveys and interviews with 160 Honduran mayors, Spring 2012.
• Field research in Honduras to conduct interviews with two Honduran ex-presidents, Fall 2011.
• Field research in El Salvador to conduct surveys and interviews with 150 Salvadorian mayors, Fall 2010.
• Surveys and interviews with 200 mayors from 12 Latin American countries. Field research in 40 Colombian
Municipalities, November 2005-February 2006.
• “Out of-field” Judge in the Texas A&M University Student Research Week, 2005.
• “In-field” Judge in the Texas A&M University Student Research Week, 2006.
• Participant, Texas A&M University Workshop on Grant Writing, February, 2005. 2004.
Invited Research Talks • Ostrom Workshop Colloquium Series, Indiana University. February 24, 2020. • College of Public Administration, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. Fall 2019.
• School of Arts, Science and Humanities. University of São Paolo, Brazil. Fall 2019.
• Keynote speaker on thematic area of Public Administration at the 2019 Conference of the Association of
Research and Post-Graduate in Administration (ANPA), São Paulo, Brazil, October 2019.
• Arizona State University-Seoul National University International Conference. “Local Government
Effectiveness: Assessing the Role of Administrative Capacity” with Gabriel Pina. Arizona State University,
Phoenix, January 14-16, 2019.
• IU CLACS. Quantitative research in Latin America. Fall 2019.
• Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia,
Fall 2018.
• The Quality of Governance Institute, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, Fall
2018.
• School of Government, University Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, July 2018.
• Department of Public Policy and Administration, Florida International University, Miami, April 23, 2018.
• Center for Latin American Studies, The University of Chicago, Chicago, April 4, 2018.
• Foundation Getulio Vargas, EBAPE, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 7, 2018.
• Center for Constitutional Democracy, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, February 22, 2018.
• Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, “Chief Executives’ Approval of Immigrants: A Survey-Experiment with
100 Latin American Mayors,” January 2018.
• National Academy of Public Administration. “Public Management in Developing Countries.” Hanoi, Vietnam,
November 2017.
• Universidad Javeriana de Cali, Colombia. “Drivers of Local Governance in Latin America.” Cali, Colombia,
July 26, 2017.
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• University of Heildelberg, Germany. “Knowledge for Governance Symposium” organized by the Institute of
Geography, University of Heildelberg, Germany. Villa Bosch Studio in Heidelberg, Germany, June 28-July 01,
2017.
• Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. FY17 Research Seminar, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean.
Mexico City, Mexico, November 14-15, 2016.
• International Seminar on “La Constitución de la Ciudad de México y el Financiamiento de la Ciudad.” Mexico
City, November 16, 2016.
• National School of Public Administration (ENAP), Brasilia, Brazil, September 19, 2016.
• Department of Public Policy Management, University of Brasilia, Brazil, September 15, 2016.
• Federación Nacional de Municipios de Mexico (FENAMM), Seminario Nacional para Autoridades
Municipales Electas, Mexico City, August 12, 2016.
• Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Syracuse University, November 29, 2015.
• Public Administration Division, CIDE (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas). Aguascalientes,
Mexico, Fall 2015.
• Department of Public Administration and Social Science Research Institute, Incheon National University in
Sondgo International City. Incheon, South Korea, June 2014.
• Centro Universitario de Ciencias Económico Administrativas. Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico, November
11, 2013.
• Department of Political Science, Javeriana University, Colombia, September 27, 2013.
• Department of Political Science, Rice University, December 4, 2012.
• School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, November 2012.
• Department of Politics and Public Administration, Hong Kong University, May 2010.
• School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, November 2010.
• Martin School of Public Policy & Administration, University of Kentucky, December 2007.
• Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California, December 2007.
• Department of Political Science, University of New Orleans, October 2007.
• Department of Public Administration & Policy, Rockefeller College, Sunny Albany, November 2007.
• Department of Political Science, UNC-Charlotte, November 2007.
Teaching and Instructional Activities Teaching Interests
Governance and Performance, Public Management, Comparative Public Administration/Management, Public
Policy and Policymaking, Comparative Public Policy, Latin American Governance, Latin American Politics, and
Latin American Political Economy.
Teaching Experience
O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
• Comparative Public Administration and Management. Graduate Level. Spring 2017, 2018, Summer 2018.
• Public Management. Graduate Level. Fall 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018.
• Public Management. Undergraduate Level. Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018.
• Latin American Governance. Graduate Level. Spring 2016, Spring 2018.
• Public Policy Seminar. Senior Undergraduate Level. Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall
2017, Spring 2019.
Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
• Municipal Public Management. Graduate Level. Summer 2014. Vietnam Government, Hanoi • Public Management
University of North Carolina-Charlotte
• Latin American Political Economy. Undergraduate Level. Spring 2010, 2011, Summer II, 2011, and 2012.
• Latin American Politics. Graduate Level. Master in Latin American Studies. Spring 2009, 2011, 2013.
• Latin American Politics. Undergraduate Level. Summer 2010, Spring 2012.
• Governance and Government Performance. Senior Undergraduate Seminar. Spring 2012, 2013.
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• Public Policy and Policymaking. Graduate Level. Ph.D. Program. Fall 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011. 2012.
• Foundations of Public Policy. Graduate Level. Spring 2010, Fall 2011. Fall 2012.
Texas A&M University
• Public Policy and Policymaking. Undergraduate Level. all 2007 and Spring 2008.
• Political Systems of Latin America. Undergraduate Level. Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Summer 2007, Fall 2007,
and Spring 2008.
• Introduction to World Politics. Undergraduate Level. Fall 2007, Spring 2007, and Summer 2008. Thesis and Research Advising
Committee Chair or Member on PhD Dissertation and Third-Year PhD Review
Ricardo Andres Bello-Gómez (IU); Andre Cabral (Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil), Usman Ali (IU); Julio
Zambrano (IU); Renzo de la Riva Aguero (IU); Paulo Massoca (IU); Rodrigo Chocano (IU); Taha Hameduddin
(IU); Taishi Muraoka (Washington University); Lina Ochoa (IU); Luke Martin Shimek (IU); Gabriel Pina (IU);
Mehmet Akif Demircioglu (IU); Hyesong Ha (IU); Sanchayan Nath (IU); Kayo Onishi (IU), Welles M. Abreu
(University of Brasilia, Brazil); Karen Okhoya (UNC Charlotte); Aileen V. Lapitan (UNC Charlotte); Veronica Caro
(University of Houston), Sabrina Jones Niggel (UNC Charlotte).
Master’s
• Juliana Costa de Carvalho, Getulio Vargas Foundation (Brazil), 2018.
• Pia Raffler. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, 2015-2017.
• Megan Beddow. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the Center of Latin American and Caribean
Studies, Indiana University, 2015-2016.
• Nathan Viets, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the Center of Latin American and Caribean
Studies, Indiana University, 2014-2015.
• Shavon Bell, Chair of Master’s Thesis, Latin American Studies, University of North Carolina-Charlotte.
2012-2013.
• Martha Plumley, Member of Master’s Comprehensive Exam, Latin American Studies, University of North
Carolina-Charlotte. Spring 2013.
• Melissa Watkins, Member of Master’s Comprehensive Exam, Latin American Studies, University of North
Carolina-Charlotte. Fall 2010.
• Sara Levy, Member of Master’s Thesis, Latin American Studies, University of North Carolina-Charlotte.
2009- 2010.
Undergraduate Senior Thesis
• Katherine Walker, Political Science, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Fall 2012.
• Amanda Lee, International Studies, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Spring 2012.
• Connie Callaway, Political Science Department, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Fall 2011.
• Whitney Campbell, Political Science Department, Texas A&M, 2008.
• Ole Grauke, Political Science Department, Texas A&M University, 2007.
• Michael Baker, Political Science Department, Texas A&M University, 2007.
Independent Studies
• Jerry Shen, Indiana University, Undergraduate, Spring 2018.
• Laura Morales, Indiana University, MPA, Spring 2017.
• Nathan Viets, Indiana University, MPA, Fall 2014.
• Mary Katherine Bailey, Indiana University, MPA, Fall 2014.
• Aviva Elzufon, the Center of Latin American and Caribean Studies, Indiana University, Spring 2014.
• Katherine Walker, Political Science Department, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Fall 2012.
• Karen Okhoya, PhD Public Policy, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Spring 2012.
• Connie Callaway, Political Science Department, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Fall 2011.
• Tasmin Washington, Latin American Studies, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Spring 2011.
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• Daniela Cabezas, Political Science Department, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Spring 2009.
Summer Undergraduate Research Mentor
• Taishi Muraoka, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Charlotte Research Scholars Program, Summer
2013.
• Katherine Walker, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Charlotte Research Scholars Program, Summer
2012. *Awarded Social Science Second Place.
Sponsored and Hosted International Visiting Scholars
Lucia Queiroz; Ricardo Gomes; Paulo Marques; Luiz Henrique Alonso; Francisco Ferriera; Cassio Mendes;
Rodolpho Vasconcellos; Sirajul Haque; Adriana Vasconcelos; Felicia Santos; Eva Kovacs; Luna Ferolla; Gabriela
Hönnicke Antunes; Italo Oliveira Mendes; Lígia Vilela Félix; Rodrigo Morais Lima Delgado; Alex Teixeira;
Huiping Li; Juliana Carvalho; Marco Paschoalotto; Adalmir de Oliveira Gomes.
Professional Membership
American Political Science Association, Midwest Political Science Association, Latin American Studies
Association, Public Management Research Association, American Society for Public Administration, Southern
Political Science Association, Academy of Management, and Latin American Association of Political Science
(ALACIP).
Other Membership Associations
Latin American Women’s Association; League of Women Voters; American Association of University Women;
Century Club: Texas A&M Association of Former Students; UNC-Charlotte Latino/Hispanic Faculty Caucus
Service Profession: Reviewer
Referee for the National Science Foundation Grant Funding; American Political Science Review; American
Journal of Political Science; Journal of Politics, Politics & Policy; Journal of Public Administration Research and
Theory; Public Administration Review; Public Administration; Public Management Review, Policy Studies
Journal, Journal of Public Policy, Policy Studies; Political Research Quarterly; Journal of Management Studies;
Journal of Urban Affairs Review; Public Performance & Management Review; American Review of Public
Administration; Latin American Politics and Society; Review of Policy Research; The Latin Americanist; Local
Government Studies; Administration & Society; Journal of Social Policy & Administration; Fudan Public
Administration Review; International Review of Administrative Sciences; Journal of US-China Public
Administration; American Journal of Sexuality Education; and Journal of Business Research.
University • Member of Ostrom Workshop Visiting Scholar Committee, Spring 2020.
• Member of Search Committee for IU SPEA Dean, Fall 2018-Spring 2019.
• Chair, Ostrom Workshop Fellowships Committee, Indiana University 2018-2019.
• Steering Committee Member, IU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Fall
2015-present.
• Member of the Ostrom Search Committee for a Director of the Program on Political, Economic,
Legal Institutions and Organizations, Spring 2017.
• Member of the Ostrom Workshop Colloquium Committee for 2017-2018.
• Faculty Mentor in the Faculty Mentoring Initiatives (FMI) Program, IU, Fall 2016-present.
• Faculty Advisor for the Society of Inter-Cultural Understanding, Spring 2016-present.
• Faculty Advisor for the Latin American Policy Association (LAPA), Fall 2013- present.
• Guest Speaker at the Office of the Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Multicultural Affairs (OVPDEMA),
Spring 2016.
• Member of the Visiting Scholar Selection Committee, Ostrom Workshop, IU, Spring 2016.
• Member of the Field Research Grants Selection Committee, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies,
Spring 2016-present.
• Discussant at the Fall 2015 Ostrom Workshop “mini-conference,” Fall 2015.
• Reviewer for the IU Office of Competitive Awards and Research, Fall 2014-present.
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• Faculty Advisor for the International Public Affairs Association (IPAA), 2014-present. • Faculty Advisor for Global Brigades at Indiana University, Fall 2014-present.
• Guest Speaker at the Latino/Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration, Civic Leaders Center, Indiana University,
October 13, 2014.
• Speaker at the Pre-College Academy Balfour Scholars Program, IU, July 15, 2014.
• Keynote Speaker at the Global Brigades Exchange at IU, April 18-19, 2014.
• Member of the Indiana University Diversity Committee, Fall 2013-Spring 2014.
• Award Selection Committee on International Women Celebration, University of North Carolina-Charlotte,
March 2013.
• Graduate Coordinator of Latin American Studies, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, 2012-2013.
• International Faculty Representative on the Selection Committee for Awardees on International Women’s Day,
University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Fall 2012 and Spring 2013.
• Arts and Sciences Council Alternate at University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Fall 2011-2012.
• Latin American Studies Graduate Committee at University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Fall 2009-present.
• Qualifying Exam Grading Committee, Public Policy Program, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Fall
2008- 2013.
• Pi Alpha Alpha Advisor at MPAD Program, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Fall 2011-2102.
• Pi Sigma Alpha Advisor at University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Fall 2008 - 2012.
• Vice-President of the Political Science Honor Association, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Fall 2001.
• Graduate Student Representative on the Liberal Arts College Research and Planning Committee, Texas A&M
University, Fall 2007.
• Mentor in the Aggie Women in Leadership Program, Texas A&M University, 2005.
College
• In charge of creating a student exchange agreement between the School of International Relations and Public
Affairs in Fudan University, China and the University of North Carolina-Charlotte Public Administration
Program. Fudan-University of North Carolina-Charlotte agreement was signed in April 2013.
• Co-organizer of the 8th Annual William Wilson Brown Jr. Conference on Latin American Studies, University
of North Carolina-Charlotte, April 26, 2013.
• Organizer of the 1st International Public Management Conference, University of North Carolina-Charlotte,
February 27-28, 2013.
• Speaker at the Liberal Arts and Sciences College Community Advisory Council Semester Meeting, University
of North Carolina-Charlotte, October 13, 2011.
Department or School Level (O’Neill School, IU, unless otherwise noted)
• 2019. Director of Potential, Master of Public and International Affairs
• Visited and met with representatives from the Embassies of Costa Rica, Paraguay and Chile in Washington DC in order to explore potential cooperation agreements between their Ministries of Education and the O’Neill School. September2019.
• Currently, I am collaborating in stablishing a cooperation agreement between the O’Neill School and Foundation Getulio Vargas (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); the University of Twente in Netherlands, and the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
• Organizer and coordinator of the 2019 Leadership Executive Advanced Program (LEAP), hosting and training 18 top Brazilian public servants on August 4-10, 2019.
• Met with the Delegation of Universidad Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) during theirl visit to IU, Spring 2019.
• Member of External Review Board for CIDE (Center de Investigación and Docencia Económicas) in Mexico.
• Hosted and mentored international visiting scholars from Brazil, Pakistan, and Colombia, including Lucia Queiroz, Ricardo Gomes, Paulo Marques, Luiz Henrique Alonso, Francisco Ferriera, Cassio Mendes, Rodolpho Vasconcellos, Sirajul Haque, Adriana Vasconcelos, Felicia Santos,Eva Kovacs, Luna Ferolla, Marco Paschoalotto, Gabriela Hönnicke Antunes, Italo Oliveira Mendes, Lígia Vilela Félix, Rodrigo Morais Lima Delgado, Alex Teixeira, Huiping Li. Juliana Carvalho, Pedro Pablo Sanabria, Jeff Vargas, Jami Nunez, Luis Enrique Becerra, Adalmir Gomes.
• Hosted several international guest speakers and public officials: Richard Walker (City University of Hong Kong), Arturo Herrera (Mexico), Armando Ahued (Minister of Health of Mexico City), Miriam Leyva and Enrique Lazcano (Secretary of Health Mexico City), Jean Paul Faguet (London School of Economics), Rene Torenvlied (University of Twente, Netherlands), Ricardo Gomes (University of Brasilia), Yijia Jin (Fudan
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University, China).
• Organizer of the 2019 Bonser Distinguished Lecture and Pre-Lecture Reception, March 31, April 1, 2019.
• Member on the keynote panel at the Center for Cultural Affairs (CCA) Opening Symposium on May 9th, 2019.
• Hosted five guest speakers for the Governance and Management Speaker Series: Carolyn Heinrich, Steven Kelman, Ann Bowman, Craig Thomas, and Nicolai Petrovsky. Spring 2019.
• Member of the Advisory Board, Center for Cultural Affairs, IU SPEA, Fall 2018-present.
• Chair, Local Governance and Management. Search Committee. IU SPEA, Fall 2018.
• Undertook the initiative and materialized a cooperation agreement between SPEA and The Colombian Superior School of Public Administration (ESAP). The SPEA-ESAP agreement was signed in Spring 2019 and will allow for internships, visiting scholar exchanges, and student exchanges.
• Undertook the initiative and materialized a cooperation agreement between SPEA and The Consulate of Mexico in Indianapolis. This agreement allows SPEA’s MPA students to do internships in the Mexican Consulate. Spring 2018.
• Member of the Charles Bonser Lecture Committee. SPEA/Kelly School 2017-2019.
• Member of the Student Fairness Committee. SPEA 2017-present.
• Member on Faculty Board of Advisors for the SPEA Journal of Public and Environmental Affairs. 2017-present.
• Undertook the initiative and materialized a cooperation agreement between SPEA and University of Los Andes’ School of Government, Bogota, Colombia. The SPEA-ANDES agreement was signed in summer 2018 and allows for internships, visiting scholar exchanges, and student exchanges.
• Organizer of the Second Leadership Executive Advanced Program (LEAP) hosting 30 top Brazilian public servants on May 20-26, 2018.
• Participant in the 18th Association of SPEA Ph.D Students Conference. Spring 2018.
• Promoted and concreted SPEA’s membership to the Inter-American Network on Public Administration Education (INPAE). 2018 – present.
• Undertook the initiative and materialized a cooperation agreement between the Mexico City Secretary of Health (SEDESA) and SPEA. The SPEA-SEDESA agreement was signed on October 37, 2017 and allows for data sharing, internships, visiting scholar exchanges, and a Leadership Executive Advanced Program.
• Organizer of Leadership Executive Advanced Program (LEAP) hosting 21 top Brazilian public servants on May 21-28, 2017 and 27 participants on May 20-26, 2018.
• Participant in the 17th Association of SPEA Ph.D Students Conference. Spring 2017.
• Undertook the initiative and materialized a cooperation agreement between the Brazilian National School of Public Administration (ENAP) and SPEA. The SPEA-ENAP agreement was signed in November 2016 and allows for internships, visiting scholar exchanges, and a Leadership Executive Advanced Program.
• Member of MPA Admission Committee, SPEA, IU. Fall 2013-present.
• Member of PhD in Public Affairs Program Committee. SPEA, Fall 2015-present.
• Member of “SPEA Local Government Initiative.” SPEA, Indiana University, Spring 2015-present.
• Member of SPEA-Kelley Bonser Lecture Committee. 2016-2017.
• Panelist in the Third Annual PPIA/NASPAA Conference, “Moving the World Forward: Exploring a Life in Public Service.” October 21-22, 2016.
• Guest Speaker in SPEA Math Camp for Masters’ Students, August 2014, 2015, 2016.
• Panelist. “Does Representation Matter? Diversity in Public & Environmental Affairs.”
• Advocacy and Action Committee, SPEA, IU. April 20, 2016.
• Member of the Ad Hoc committee to select SPEA’s nominations for the Provost’s Award for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity. Spring 2016.
• Member of the SPEA and SGIS planning committee to create a joint undergraduate degree on development and governance. Fall 2015-present.
• Organizer of the Indiana Hispanic High School Students’ visit to SPEA. 6 Oct. 2015.
• Speaker at SPEA Second Annual PPIA/NASPAA Conference, “Moving the World Forward: Exploring a Life in Public Service.” October 23-24, 2015.
• Speaker at SPEA Concentration Sessions for MPA students, Sep 23, 2015.
• Guest Speaker in SPEA Launch Program. August 20, 2015.
• Lecturer in SPEA Connect Week. SPEA, IU. August 5, 2015.
• SPEA’s faculty liaison for minority student outreach and mentoring. 2013-present.
• Panelist in SPEA’s Spring Experience Day. March 2015
• Invited and coordinated the visit to SPEA of professors Ken Meier, Laurence J. O’Toole, Donald Moynihan, and Krister Andersson. Fall 2014 and Spring 2015.
• Best Paper Judge, 14th SPEA Ph.D. Students Conference. Spring 2015.
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• Member, SPEA Fellowship for International Engagement Selection Committee. Spring 2015.
• Panelist. “Public Affairs in a Global Environment.” SPEA, Indiana University, Fall 2014.
• Member of PP Ph.D. Program Committee. SPEA, Indiana University, Fall 2014-2015.
• Member of Strategy and Management Faculty Search Committee. SPEA, IU. Fall 2014.
• Member of Public Management Faculty Search Committee. SPEA, IU. Fall 2014.
• Member of SPEA International Advisory Committee. Indiana University. Fall 2014-present.
• Organizer of the Indiana Hispanic High School Students’ visit to SPEA. April 18, 2014.
• Best Paper Judge at 13th SPEA Ph.D. Students Conference. March 28th, 2014.
• Panelist in SPEA’s Spring Experience Day. March 2014
• Member on the International Engagement Fellowship Review Committee. MPA, SPEA, IU, Spring 2014.
• SPEA Faculty Representative at the 15th Annual Indiana Latino Leadership Conference. IU, March 1, 2014.
• Presenter at the SPEA Advisory Board Annual Meeting. Washington, DC. Sept. 2013.
• Co-founder and mentor of SPEA Latin American Policy Association (LAPA). Fall 2013-present. Department or School Level (University of North Carolina-Charlotte)
• Co-Chair of the Latin American Brown Conference, UNCC. Spring 2013.
• Organizer of the 1st International Public Management Mini-Conference, UNCC. Spring 2013.
• Member on International Relations Faculty Search Committee. UNCC. Fall 2010.
• Junior Faculty Observer on POLS Department Review Committee. UNCC. 2010- 2011.
• Pi Sigma Alpha Advisor at UNC-Charlotte. Fall 2008- 2012.
• Honors Committee Member. Political Science Department, UNCC. Fall 2008 – 2011.
• Invited and coordinated the visit to UNCC of several national and international well-known distinguished professors such as Ken Meier, Hal Rainey, Frank Baumgartner, Lawrence O’Toole, Frances Berry, George Edwards, Virginia Gray, Jorge Dominguez, and Steven Kelman as well as the visit of Professors John Bond, Richard Walker, James E. Anderson, Jan Leighley and Rene Torenvlied; and Associate Professors Gene Brewer, Maria- Escobar-Lemmon, Agnes Akkerman and Elizabeth Zechmeister as well as the visit of Assistant Professors Tetsuya Matsubayashi, Justin Gross and Nicolai Petrovsky.
• Invited and coordinated the visit to UNCC of Stata Director of Econometrics, David Drukker, PhD, who offered a two-day workshop on statistics and econometrics for faculty and students of political science, public policy and master’s in public administration.
• Committee Member, Graduate Student Council, Texas A&M University. Spring 2004.
• Graduate Student Representative on the Political Science Department Undergraduate Committee, Texas A&M
University, Fall 2007Department or School Level (University of South Carolina-Charlotte) • Co-Chair of the Latin American Brown Conference, UNCC. Spring 2013.
• Organizer of the 1st International Public Management Mini-Conference, UNCC. Spring 2013.
• Member on International Relations Faculty Search Committee. UNCC. Fall 2010.
• Junior Faculty Observer on POLS Department Review Committee. UNCC. 2010-2011.
• Pi Sigma Alpha Advisor at UNC-Charlotte. Fall 2008-2012.
• Honors Committee Member. Political Science Department, UNCC. Fall 2008-2011.
• Invited and coordinated the visit to UNCC of several national and international well-known distinguished
professors such as Ken Meier, Hal Rainey, Frank Baumgartner, Lawrence O’Toole, Frances Berry, George
Edwards, Virginia Gray, Jorge Dominguez, and Steven Kelman as well as the visit of Professors John Bond,
Richard Walker, James E. Anderson, Jan Leighley and Rene Torenvlied; and Associate Professors Gene
Brewer, Maria- Escobar-Lemmon, Agnes Akkerman and Elizabeth Zechmeister as well as the visit of Assistant
Professors Tetsuya Matsubayashi, Justin Gross and Nicolai Petrovsky.
• Invited and coordinated the visit to UNCC of Stata Director of Econometrics, David Drukker, Ph.D., who
offered a two-day workshop on statistics and econometrics for faculty and students of political science, public
policy and master’s in public administration.
• Committee Member, Graduate Student Council, Texas A&M University. Spring 2004.
• Graduate Student Representative on the Political Science Department Undergraduate Committee, Texas A&M
University, Fall 2007.
Public/Community
• Member of the City of Bloomington Innovation Task Force, Spring 2016. • Interview with Malin Falu, host of the TV program “Diálogo de Costa a Costa,” Hispanic Information &
Telecommunications Network (HITN TV), Brooklyn, NY, on “Situación de Honduras aún sin resolver,”
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October 8, 2009.
• Guest Speaker at the Hispanic College Awareness Program (HCAP)’s High School Students Orientation.
UNC-Charlotte, Spring 2012.
Discipline
• Mentor in the Midwest Political Science Association Mentoring Program, 2013-present.
Panelist, Discussant and Panel Chair • Co-organizer and Chair. “Political Institutions and Elite Behavior 7: Experimental Approaches.” Mini
Conference @ SPSA. SPSA Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Jan 9-11, 2020.
• Chair, “Understanding the Post-Decentralization Scenario in Latin America.” Annual Meeting of American
Political Science Association, Washington, DC, August 28-September 1, 2019.
• Chair, “Local Government and Performance in Latin America.” WOW6. Indiana University, June 19-21, 2019.
• Co-Chair, Four PMRA-Sponsored Panels at the IRSPM, Wellington, New Zealand, April 15-19, 2019. • Panelist, “Navigating Interdisciplinary Departments and Research,” at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest
Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 4-7, 2019.
• Chair and Discussant, “Conference within a Conference: Experiments and Political Elites: Workshop:
Research Designs II,” at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April
4-7, 2019.
• Co-chair, with Rene Torenvlied, of panel proposal for the 2019 IRSPM Conference Wellington, New Zealand.
Panel Title: “PMRA-Sponsored panel: Management and Organizational Performance in Comparative
Perspective.”
• Chair, “Change Leadership and Policy Entrepreneurship,” at the Annual Meeting of the Public Management
Research Conference in Singapore, May 31-June 2, 2018.
• Co-chair, with Rene Torenvlied, of Panel Title: “PMRA-Sponsored panel: Management and Organizational
Performance in Comparative Perspective” at the 2018 IRSPM Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland.
• Panelist, “Now What? Sustaining Scholarly Excellence Post-Tenure,” at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest
Political Science Association. Chicago, IL, April 5-8, 2018.
• Panel Chair. “Federalism in Comparative Perspective.” At the Annual Meeting of American Political Science
Association, San Francisco, CA, August 31-September 2, 2017.
• Panel Chair. 2017. Local Politics and Decentralization. At the Annual Meeting of the Latin American Studies
Association, Lima, Peru, April 28-May 1, 2017.
• Panel Chair. 2017 Representative Bureaucracy Workshop: Representative Bureaucracy Ill. At the Annual
Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, Ill., April 6-9, 2017.
• Poster Session Discussant. “Decentralization and Local Politics. At the Annual Midwest Political Science
Association. Chicago, Ill., April 6-9, 2017.
• Panel Chair. “Trust in Public Management in the World.” At the 2016 Annual Political Science Association,
Philadelphia, September 1-4, 2016.
• Panel Discussant. “Comparative Public Administration and Management.” At the 2016 Southern Political
Science Association. Puerto Rico, January 6-9, 2016.
• Panel Discussant. “Políticas Publicas y Efectividad del Gobierno en Puerto Rico.” At the 2016 Southern
Political Science Association. Puerto Rico, January 6-9, 2016.
• Panel Chair. “Returning to Capacity’s Role in Local Government and Nonprofit Service.” At the 2015 Academy
of Management Meeting. Vancouver, BC, Canada. August 7-11 2015.
• Panel Discussant. Empirical Performance Management and Experiments. At the 2015 annual meeting of the
Association of Public Policy and Management (APPAM), Miami, FL, November 11-13th.
• Panel Discussant. “Contracting for Public Goods and Services.” At the Annual Meeting of the American
Political Science Association. San Francisco, CA. Sept. 3-6, 2105.
• Panel Discussant. “Public Bureaucracy: A Comparative Perspective.” At the Annual Meeting of the Midwest
Political Science Association. Chicago, IL. April 16-19, 2015.
• Panel Discussant. “Managing Public Organizations; Strategies and Performance.” At the Annual Meeting of
the Southern Political Science Association. New Orleans, LA. January 15-17, 2015.
• Panelist. “Authorship and Publishing.” Office of Research Ethics, Education & Policy (REEP). Office of the
Vice President for Research. Indiana University. November 19, 2014.
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• Panel Chair and Discussant. Electoral Dynamics and Policy-making in Latin America. At the Annual Meeting
of the American Political Science Association. Washington, DC. August 28-31, 2104.
• Panel Discussant. Urban Politics and Local Governance in Developing Countries. At the Annual Meeting of
the American Political Science Association. Washington, DC. August 28-31, 2104.
• Panel Chair. International and Food Policy. IPAA 7th Annual Spring Conference. SPEA, IU. March 28, 2014.
• Panel Chair. “New Political Institutions in Latin America.” At the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political
Science Association. Chicago, IL. April 3-6, 2014.
• Panel Chair. Causes and Consequences of Decentralization. At the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political
Science Association. Chicago, IL. April 3-6, 2014.
• Panel Discussant. Causes and Consequences of Decentralization. At the Annual Meeting of the Midwest
Political Science Association. Chicago, IL. April 3-6, 2014.
• Panel Chair. Local Government: Public Service for the People. At the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political
Science Association. New Orleans, LA. January 6-9, 2014.
• Panel Chair. Context and Performance. At the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association. New
Orleans, LA., January 6-9, 2014.
• Panel Discussant. Representing Politics in Latin America. At the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political
Science Association. New Orleans, LA. January 6-9, 2014.
• Panelist. “La Necesidad de Internacionalizar los Programas Educativos.” Congreso Nacional de Maestrías en
Administración Pública de México. México City. November 6-7, 2013.
• Panel Chair. “Decentralization, Public Goods and Accountability.” At the Annual Meeting of the Midwest
Political Science Association. Chicago, IL. April 11-14, 2013.
• Panel Discussant. “Local Representation.” At the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association.
Chicago, IL. April 11-14, 2013.
• Panel Chair. “Local Leadership.” Public Management Research Conference. Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
May 25-27, 2012.
• Panel Discussant. “Public Management and Organizational Performance. Annual Meeting of the American
Political Science Association. New Orleans, LA. Aug 30-Sept 2, 2012.
• Panel Discussant. “The Politics of Mayors: Fiscal Policy and Elections at the Municipal Level.” Annual
Meeting of the American Political Science Association. New Orleans, LA. August 30-September 2, 2012.
• Panel Chair. “Contemporary Socioeconomic Policy Dynamics in the BRIC Countries.” At the Annual Meeting
of the Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, IL. April 12-15, 2012.
• Panel Discussant. “Organized Violence in Latin America: Origins and Solutions.” At the Annual Meeting of the
Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, IL. April 12-15, 2012.
• Panel Chair. “International Relations and Foreign Affairs.” At the 40th Annual Conference of the North
Carolina Political Science Association. Charlotte, NC. February 25th, 2011.
• Panel Chair. “Effectiveness of Public Service Provision.” At the 1st ‘Off-Year’ Research Conference of the
Public Management Research Association in Asia (pmra.irspm.asia). Hong Kong. October 14-16, 2010.
• Panel Discussant. “Gauging the Gauges: Issues in Organizational Performance and Performance
Management.” At the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Washington, DC.
September 2-5, 2010.
• Panel Discussant at the Texas A&M Public Management Conference. College Station, Texas, May 6-9, 2010.
• Round Table Organizer. “Public Management in Developing and Transition Countries.” At the Annual
Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, IL. April 22- 25, 2010.
• Panel Discussant. “The Lasting Impact of Political and Economic Legacies.” At the Annual Meeting of the
Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, IL. April 22-25, 2010.
• Panel Chair. “Recent Developments in Methodology.” At the Public Management Research Conference to be
held at the John Glenn School of Public Affairs at the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, October 1-3,
2009.
• Panel Organizer. “Government Performance: An International Perspective on the Role of Public Management
and Policy.” At the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Toronto, Canada,
September 3-6, 2009.
• Panel Discussant. “Issues Directly Affecting Citizens.” At the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science
Association. Chicago, IL. April 2-5, 2009.
• Panel Moderator. “Policy Making.” At the 38th Annual Meeting of the North Carolina Political Science Association.”
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Greensboro, NC, February 27, 2009.
• Panel Discussant. “Parties and Representation.” At the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science
Association. New Orleans, LA, January 8-10, 2009.
• Panel Chair. “Parties and Representation.” At the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association.
“New Orleans, LA, January 8-10, 2009.
• Panel Discussant. “Party Systems in Latin American.” At the Annual Meeting of the Political Science
Association. Boston, MA. August 28-31, 2008.
• Panel Discussant. “Management and Agency Performance.” At the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science
Association. Chicago, IL. April 3-6, 2008.
• Panelist. “The Challenges of Chavez.” The Wiley Lecture Series at Texas A&M University, TX. March 5, 2008.
• Panel Chair. “State and Local Politics and Policy.” At the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Political Science
Association. Albuquerque, NM. March 14-17, 2007.
• Panel Chair. “Race and Ethnicity in State and Local Politics.” At the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern
Social Science Association. San Antonio, TX. April 12-15, 2006.
• Panelist. “Intellectual Excellence in Higher Education.” Rio Bravo Conference on Sustainable Development,
Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Kingsville, TX. April 1-3, 2006.
Papers at Research Conferences
Avellaneda, Claudia N. and Ricardo Andrés Bello-Gómez. “Explaining Delegation in Cooperative Arrangements:
A Survey-Experiment with 246 Mayors.” GMU-SNU BK21 International Conference. Washington, 2020.
Gómez-Bello, Ricardo and Claudia Avellaneda. “I’d Rather Do It Myself: An experiment on mayoral
preferences for managerial autonomy.” SPSA Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Jan 9-11, 2020.
Julio Ramos, Johabed Olvera, and Claudia N Avellaneda. “Hawks or Technocrats? Governors’ Career Path
on Gubernatorial Performance.” At APPAM Annual Meeting. Denver, Colorado. November 2019.
Gomez-Bello, Ricardo and Claudia Avellaneda. “I’d Rather Do It Myself: An experiment on mayoral preferences
for managerial autonomy.” Midwest Public Affairs Conference. Indianapolis, October 2019.
Siena, Susan and Claudia Avellaneda. “A Contextual Framework for Comparative Courses in Public
Administration.” 2nd Annual NASPAA & ICPA-Forum/JCPA Workshop on Teaching Comparative Policy:
Syllabi, Cases, Simulations & More. Los Angeles, CA. October 15-17, 2019.
Avellaneda, Claudia and Johabed Olvera. “Information Disclosure and Performance: The moderating role of
incentives.” Annual Meeting of American Political Science Association, Washington, DC. August
28-September 1, 2019
Ricardo Andrés Bello-Gomez, Johabed Olvera and Avellaneda, Claudia. “Management in Context: The
Moderating Effect of Party System on the Management-Performance Relationship. At the XIV Congress of the
Spain Administration and Political Science Association. Salamanca, Spain, July 11-14, 2019.
Avellaneda, Claudia and Johabed Olvera. “Delegation in Collaborative Arrangements.” WOW6, Indiana
University. June 19-21, 2019.
Ricardo Andrés Bello-Gomez, Johabed Olvera and Avellaneda, Claudia. “Management in Context: The
Moderating Effect of Party System on the Management-Performance Relationship. WOW6. Indiana
University, June 19-21, 2019.
Johabed Olvera and Avellaneda, Claudia. “Do Incentives Moderate Civil Servants’ Discretionary Authority in a
Transparent Context?”, at the Public Management Research Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, June 11-14, 2019.
Johabed Olvera and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “Do Incentives Moderate Civil Servants’ Discretionary Authority in
a Transparent Context?” At the International Research Society for Public Management Annual Conference,
Wellington, New Zealand, April 15-19, 2019.
Ricardo Andrés Bello-Gomez, Johabed Olvera and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “Management in Context: The
Moderating Effect of Party System on the Management-Performance Relationship. At the International
Research Society for Public Management Annual Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, April 15-19, 2019.
Claudia N. Avellaneda and Laura J. Morales. “Decision Making: Self-Identified Indigenous vs. Non-Indigenous
Mayors,” at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 4-7, 2019.
Ricardo Andrés Bello-Gomez, Johabed Olvera and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “Management in Context: The
Moderating Effect of Party System on the Management-Performance Relationship,” at the Annual Meeting of
the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 4-7, 2019.
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Laura Helmke-Long and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “Waste Management in Latin America: A Review of the
Literature,” at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 4-7, 2019.
Ricardo Andrés Bello-Gomez, Johabed Olvera and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “Management in Context: Informal
Political Institutions and the Management-Performance Relationship,” 2019 American Society for Public
Administration, Washington, DC, March 7-11, 2019.
Kohei Suzuki and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “External Pressure, Mayoral Leadership and Public Sector
Innovation: Findings from a Study of Japanese Municipalities.” The Workshop on Public Sector Innovation in
the Asia Pacific – Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore,
15-16 February, 2019.
Claudia N. Avellaneda and Gabriel Pina. “Local Government Effectiveness: Assessing the Role of
Organizational Capacity.” ASU-SNU BK21 International Conference, Arizona State University, Phoenix,
January 14-16, 2019.
Avellaneda, Claudia and Johabed Olvera. “Chief Executives’ Approval of Immigrants: Evidence from a Survey
Experiment of 101 Latin American and Caribbean Mayors,” at the Annual Meeting of the Public Management
Research Conference in Singapore, May 31-June 2, 2018.
Avellaneda, Claudia and Johabed Olvera. “Chief Executives’ Approval of Immigrants: Evidence from a Survey
Experiment of 101 Latin American and Caribbean Mayors, at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political
Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 5-8, 2018.
Aguero, Renzo de la Riva and Claudia Avellaneda. “Organizational Innovation After Disaster: Do Local
Governments Transform in Response to Climate Change?” at Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science
Association, Chicago, IL, April 5-8, 2018.
Claudia N. Avellaneda, Johabed Olvera and Julio Ramos. “Experienced Administrator or Skilled Politician?
The Impact of Governors’ Career Path on Gubernatorial Performance.” At the Annual Meeting of American
Political Science Association, San Francisco, August 31-September 2, 2017.
Taishi Muraoka and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “When Do Managerial Networks Enhance Government
Performance?” At the Twelfth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. International
Conference Center, Hiroshima, Japan. 26-28 July, 2017.
Claudia N. Avellaneda and Johabed Olvera. “Explaining Mayoral Decision Making: Issue Salience, Political
Ambition, or Mayoral Qualifications.” Presented at Public Management Research Conference, Washington,
DC, June 8-10, 2017.
Claudia N. Avellaneda, Johabed Olvera, and Julio Ramos. “Experienced Administrator or Skilled Politician?
The Impact of Governors’ Career Path on Gubernatorial Performance.” Presented at Public Management
Research Conference, Washington, DC, June 8-10, 2017.
Suzuki, Kohei and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “New Public Management and Public Service Performance: Does
NPM Reform Boost Performance?” Workshop: Public Management and Institutional Quality. Gothenburg,
Sweden, June 7- 8, 2017.
Suzuki, Kohei and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “New Public Management and Public Service Performance: Does
NPM Reform Boost Municipal Performance?” Nordic Association for the Study of Contemporary Japanese
Society Conference. Stockholm, Sweden, May 18-19, 2017.
Sanabria-Pulido, Pablo, Claudia N. Avellaneda, and Ernesto Cardenas. “Social, Institutional, and Contextual
Determinants of Local Government Performance in a Developing Country.” Presented at the 21st
International Research Society on Public Management Conference. Budapest, Hungary, April 19-21.
Claudia N. Avellaneda and Johabed Olvera. “Explaining Mayoral Decision Making: Issue Salience, Political
Ambition, or Mayoral Qualifications.” At the Annual Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Lima,
Peru, April 28-May 1, 2017.
Claudia N. Avellaneda and Johabed Olvera. “Explaining Mayoral Decision Making: Issue Salience, Political
Ambition, or Mayoral Qualifications.” At the Annual Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, IL, April
6-9, 2017.
Claudia N. Avellaneda, Johabed Olvera, and Julio Ramos. “Experienced Administrator or Skilled Politician?
The Impact of Governors’ Career Path on Gubernatorial Performance.” Annual Midwest Political Science
Association. Chicago, IL, April 6-9, 2017.
Ricardo Andres Bello-Gomez and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “The Impact of Decentralization in Public Education
Provision: Do Strong Local Governments Make A Difference?” At the Annual Midwest Political Science
Association. Chicago, IL, April 6-9, 2017.
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Claudia N. Avellaneda and Laura Morales. “Work-Related Perceptions, Decisions, and Behaviors between
Self-Identified Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Mayors.” At the Annual Midwest Political Science Association.
Chicago, IL, April 6-9, 2017.
Julio Zambrano and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “Decentralization and Fiscal Institutions: The Effects of Debt
Ceilings on Municipal Spending.” Western Economic Association International Conference, Santiago, Chile,
January 3-6, 2017.
Kohei Suzuki and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “Does Gender Representation in City Councils Affect Legislation
Proposals and Approval?” To be presented at the 2017 Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans,
LA, January, 2017.
Ricardo Andres Bello-Gomez and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “Testing the Multiplicative Effect of Mid-level
Managerial Size and Turnover on Subnational Government Performance.” The 2017 Southern Political
Science Association, New Orleans, LA, January, 2017.
Taishi Muraoka and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “When Do Networks Enhance Municipal Performance?” At the
2017 Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA, January, 2017.
Julio Zambrano and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “Decentralization and Fiscal Institutions: The Effects of Debt
Ceilings on Municipal Spending.” 2016 Association for Budgeting & Financial Management, Seattle, WA,
October 2016.
Avellaneda, Claudia N. and Julio Zambrano. “Municipal Fiscal Sustainability after Decentralization.” Presented at the 2016 Annual Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, September 1-4, 2016.
Kohei Suzuki and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “Assessing the Effect of Gender Representation on Local Fiscal Performance.” Presented at the 2016 Public Management Research Conference, Aarhus, Denmark, June 22-24, 2016.
Avellaneda, Claudia and Luis Enrique Becerra. “Explaining the Implementation of Merit System: the case of
Mexico.” Presented at the 2016 Annual Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, IL, April 7-10, 2016.
Gabriel Pina and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “Explaining Regional Government Performance: Political Context or
Managerial Capacity?” Presented at the 2016 Annual Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, IL, April
7-10, 2016.
Kohei Suzuki and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “Assessing the Effect of Gender Representation on Local
Administrative Reform.” Presented at the 2016 Annual Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, IL,
April 7-10, 2016.
Taishi Muraoka and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “Political Institutions and Policy Responsiveness to Minority
Protests in 17 Latin American Countries.” At the 2016 Southern Political Science Association. Puerto Rico,
January 6-9, 2016.
Claudia N. Avellaneda and Johabed Olvera. “Regional Disparities: Do Governors’ Background Characteristics
Matter?” At the 2016 Southern Political Science Association, Puerto Rico, January 6-9, 2016.
Claudia N. Avellaneda and Julio Zambrano. “La sostenibilidad fiscal y el rol del alcalde en el desempeño
municipal: El caso de los Gobiernos Autónomos y Descentralizados Municipales del Ecuador.” At the 2016
Southern Political Science Association, Puerto Rico, January 6-9, 2016.
Kohei Suzuki and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “Does Political Context Matter? Explaining Performance in Japanese
Local.” At the 2016 Southern Political Science Association, Puerto Rico, January 6-9, 2016.
Avellaneda, Claudia and Luis Enrique Becerra. “Explaining the Implementation of Merit System: the case of
Mexico.” 2015 APSA, San Francisco, CA, September 3-5, 2015.
Claudia N. Avellaneda and Gabriel Piña. “Local Revenue Expansion: Political Context or Managerial Capacity.”
2015 Annual Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, September 3-5, 2015.
Suzuki, Kohei and Claudia Avellaneda. “Does Context Condition the Effect of Chief Executives’ Managerial
Capacity on Municipal Performance?” Presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Vancouver,
BC, Canada, August 7-11, 2015.
Piña, Gabriel and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “Municipal Performance and Interorganizational Collaboration: A
contingent Approach.” Presented at the 2015 Biannual Public Management Research Association Conference.
Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, June 11-13, 2015.
Avellaneda, Claudia N. and Ricardo A. Bello-Gomez. “Explaining Regional Government Performance: Political
Context or Managerial Capacity?” Presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science
Association, Chicago, IL, April 16-19, 2015
Piña, Gabriel and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “Local Revenue Expansion: Political Context or Managerial
Capacity.” Presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL,
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April 16-19, 2015.
Avellaneda, Claudia N. and Johabed Olvera. “Regional Disparities: Testing the Direct and Indirect Effect of
Managerial Capacity.” Presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association,
Chicago, IIL, April 16-19, 2015.
Avellaneda, Claudia N. “The Impact of Political and Municipal Context on Mayoral Decision Making.” At the
Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association. New Orleans, MI. January 15-17, 2015.
Avellaneda, Claudia N., Jill Nicholson-Crotty, and Meghann G. Rother. Politics and Regulation:
Nongovernmental Organizations in Latin America. At the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science
Association, New Orleans, LA. January 15-17, 2015.
Suzuki, Kohei and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “Does Context Condition the Effect of Chief Executives’ Managerial
Capacity on Municipal Performance?” At the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association,
New Orleans, LA, January 15-17, 2015.
Suzuki, Kohei and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “The Effect of the Macro Institutional Context on Local Government
Performance: A comparative analysis.” At the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association,
Washington, DC, August 28-31, 2104.
Leon, Filadelfo and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “Explaining Citizens’ Attitudes toward Mayoral Term Limits: The Case of Mexico.” Paper presented at the Public Management Research Conference, Seoul, Korea.
Avellaneda, Claudia N. and Ricardo C. Gomes. “Explaining Expansion of Brazilian Municipal Revenues: Politics or Managerial Competency.” Presented at Texas A&M Public Management Research Conference, College Station, TX, May 15-17, 2014.
Avellaneda, Claudia N. “Mayoral Decision-Making: The case of Honduras.” Presented at the Texas A&M Public Management Research Conference, College Station, TX, May 15-17, 2014.
Claudia N. Avellaneda and Nicolai Petrovsky. “Plata y Plomo: Assessing the Influence of Resources and
Political Violence on Political Ambition in Colombian Municipalities.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the
Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 3-6, 2014.
Muraoka, Taishi and Claudia N. Avellaneda. 2014. “What Political Institutions Favor Indigenous People’s
Rights?” A Latin American Study. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science
Association, New Orleans, MI, January 6-9, 2014.
Avellaneda, Claudia N. and Ricardo C. Gomes. “Explaining Expansion of Brazilian Municipal Revenues:
Politics or Managerial Competency” Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New
Orleans, MI, January 6-9, 2014.
Avellaneda, Claudia N., Morgen Johansen and Kohei Suzuki. “What Motivates Japanese Nonprofit Decisions
in Latin America?” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New
Orleans, LA, January 6-9, 2014.
Petrovsky, Nicolai, Claudia N. Avellaneda, and Priyam Saharia. “Where Does Natural Resource Wealth Flow?
Testing the Rentier Hypothesis in Colombian Local Governments. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the
Latin American Association of Political Science, Bogota, Colombia, September 25-27, 2013.
Avellaneda, Claudia N. “Mayoral Decision-Making: the case of Honduras.” At the Annual Meeting of the
Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL,April 11-14, 2013.
Avellaneda, Claudia N. “Mayoral Delegation in Honduras.” At the 60th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Council
of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS), March 6-10, 2013, Panama City, Panamá.
Brewer, Gene, Richard Walker and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “When Does Red Tape Hurt Performance? Evidence
from Different Policy Arenas.” Presented at the 2012 Association of Policy Analysis and Management,
Baltimore, November 8-10.
Avellaneda, Claudia N. “Local Leadership in El Salvador: A Mayor’s Role in Municipal Performance. Presented at the
Public Management Research Conference, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, May 25-27, 2012.
Brewer, Gene, Richard Walker and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “When Does Red Tape Hurt Performance? Evidence
from Different Policy Arenas.” Presented at the PMRA-sponsored panel at IRSPM. Rome, April 12-14, 2012.
Avellaneda, Claudia N. “Local Leadership in El Salvador: A Mayor’s Role in Municipal Performance. Presented
at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 12-15, 2012.
Davalos, Eleonora and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “Explaining the Drivers of Teenage Pregnancy in Latin
America.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April
12-15, 2012.
Okhoya, Karen and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “Assessing the Performance of Kenyan Constituency Development
Fund Committees.” Presented at the SPSA, New Orleans, LA, January 12-14, 2012.
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Anggoro, Yudo and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “Government Performance in Latin America: A Longitudinal
Study.” Presented at the SPSA, New Orleans, January 12-14, 2012.
Avellaneda, Claudia N., Frances S. Berry and Richard M. Walker. Limits on Innovation: Munificence,
Complexity and Non-linearity in the Technical Environment. ESRC Seminar Series in Innovation in Public
Services: Innovation in Public Services Industries. University of Edinburgh, UK, November 18, 2011.
Brewer, Gene A., Richard M. Walker, Barry Bozeman, Gene A. Brewer Jr., and Claudia N. Avellaneda.
“External Control and Red Tape: The Mediating Effects of Client and Organizational Feedback.” Presented at
the 11th Biannual Public Management Research Conference, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public
Affairs of Syracuse University, New York, June 2-4, 2011.
Gomes, Ricardo, Claudia Avellaneda, Marcelo Rodrigues Trevenzoli, and Tiago Silva. “Local Governmental
Performance in Brazil: Do Target Size and Mayoral Background Make Difference?” Presented at the XV
International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM), Dublin, Ireland, April, 11-13, 2011.
Petrovsky, Nicolai, Priyam Saharia, and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “Where Does Natural Resource Wealth Flow?
Testing the Rentier Hypothesis in Colombian Local Governments. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the
Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, March 21-April 3, 2011.
Avellaneda, Claudia N. and Ricardo Correa Gomes. “Managerial Quality and Municipal Performance: The
Brazilian Local Governments.” Presented at the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies. Wilmington,
NC, March 16-19, 2011.
Avellaneda, Claudia N. and Nicolai Petrovsky. “Local Social Spending: Ideology, Competitiveness, or
Managerial Quality?” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the North Carolina Political Science Association,
Charlotte, NC, February 25, 2011.
Avellaneda, Claudia and Ricardo Correa Gomes. “Managerial Quality and Municipal Performance: The
Brazilian Local Governments.” Presented at the 1st ‘Off-Year’ Research Conference of the Public Management
Research Association in Asia (pmra.irspm.asia), Hong Kong, October 14-16, 2010.
Nicolai Petrovsky and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “Tax Collection Performance: Rentier Versus Non-Rentier Local
Governments in Colombia.’ Presented at the 1st ‘Off-Year’ Research Conference of the Public Management
Research Association in Asia (pmra.irspm.asia)., Hong Kong, October 14-16, 2010.
Avellaneda, Claudia N. and Nicolai Petrovsky. “Local Social Spending: Ideology, Competitiveness, or
Managerial Quality?” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Toronto,
Canada, October 6-9, 2010.
Avellaneda, Claudia N. “Education Quality in a Latin American Setting: Bureaucratic, Managerial, or Political
Leadership Quality? Presented at the Texas A&M Public Management Conference, College Station, Texas, May
6-9, 2010.
Avellaneda, Claudia N. and Nicolai Petrovsky. “Does Managerial Quality Affect Tax Collection in a Developing
Setting? Testing Management Theory in the Colombian Local Governments.” Presented at the Annual Meeting
of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 22-25, 2010.
Avellaneda, Claudia N. and Gregory Weeks. “Local Leadership in a Latin American Setting: Mayor’s Role in
Municipal Performance.” At the 57th Annual Conference of the South Eastern Council of Latin American
Studies (SECOLAS), Mexico City, April 2010.
Brewer, Gene and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “Public Service Motivation: An Organizational Perspective.”
Presented at the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the International Research Society for Public Management,
Berne, Switzerland, April 7-9, 2010.
Avellaneda, Claudia N. and Nicolai Petrovsky. “Does Managerial Quality Affect Tax Collection in a Developing
Setting? Testing Management Theory in the Colombian Local Governments.” Presented at the Fourteenth
Annual Conference of the International Research Society for Public Management, Berne, Switzerland, April
7-9, 2010.
Avellaneda, Claudia N. and Maria Escobar-Lemmon. “All by Myself? The Role of Parties in Securing Mayoral
Election in Latin America.” Annual Meeting of the North Carolina Political Science Association, NC Central
University, Durham, NC, February 26, 2010.
Avellaneda, Claudia N. “Municipal Revenue Strategy in a Latin American Setting: Does the Public Manager’s
Background Matter?” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Toronto,
Canada, September 3-6, 2009.
Avellaneda, Claudia N. “Education Quality in a Latin American Setting: Bureaucratic, Managerial, or Political
Leadership Quality? Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago,
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IL, April 2-5, 2009.
Avellaneda, Claudia N. and Maria Escobar-Lemmon. All by Myself? The Role of Parties in Securing Mayoral
Election in Latin America.” Presented in the RTI-Carolina-Duke Working Group on Political Decentralization,
Durham, North Carolina, April 2009.
Avellaneda, Claudia N. “Mayoral Decision-Making: Context, Issue Salience, and Leadership Quality.” At the
38th Annual Meeting of the North Carolina Political Science Association, Greensboro, NC, February 27, 2009.
Avellaneda, Claudia N. and Maria Escobar-Lemmon. All by Myself? The Role of Parties in Securing Mayoral
Election in Latin America.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Political Science Association,
New Orleans, LA, January 8-10, 2009.
Avellaneda, Claudia N. “Mayoral Decision-Making: Context, Issue Salience, and Leadership Quality.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwest Social Science Association, Las Vegas, NV, March 12-15, 2008.
Avellaneda, Claudia N., Debra Cardona, and Maria Escobar-Lemmon. “Women and the Supreme Court in Latin America.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association. New Orleans, LA, January 10-12, 2008.
Walker, Richard, Claudia N. Avellaneda, and Frances Stokes Berry. “The Diffusion of Innovation: A
Longitudinal Empirical Test of the Berry and Berry Model.” Presented at the 9th Public Management
Research Conference, Tucson, AZ, October 25-27, 2007.
Avellaneda, Claudia N. and Maria Escobar-Lemmon. “All by Myself? The Role of Parties in Securing Mayoral
Election in Latin America.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.
Chicago, IL, August 30 -September 2, 2007.
Walker, Richard M., Fariborz Damanpour, and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “Combinative Effects of Innovation
Types on Organizational Performance: A Longitudinal Study.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the
Academy of Management, Philadelphia, PA, August 3-8, 2007.
Avellaneda, Claudia N. and Roseanna Health. 2007. “The New Latin American Left: Inequality, Poverty,
Support for Democracy, or Chávez’s Influence? At the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science
Association, Chicago, IL, April 12-15, 2007.
Avellaneda, Claudia N. 2007. “Assessing Latin American Mayors: An Experimental Analysis. Presented at the
Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association, Albuquerque, NM, March 14-17, 2007.
Avellaneda, Claudia N. and Maria Escobar-Lemmon. “Pork or Policy? Legislative Styles in the Colombian
Congress.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA,
August 31-September 3, 2006.
Avellaneda, Claudia N. “Local Management Quality and Program Performance: Do the Mayor’s Qualifications
Matter?” Conference on Empirical Study of Organizations and Public Management, Texas A&M University,
College Station, TX, May 4-6, 2006.
Avellaneda, Claudia N. “Reaching the Poor through Decentralized Social Services Delivery.” Midwest Political
Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 20-23, 2006.
Avellaneda, Claudia N. “Assessing Local Government Performance: The Role of the Mayor.” Presented at the
Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association, San Antonio, TX, April 12-15, 2006.
Avellaneda, Claudia N., Debra Cardona, and Maria Escobar-Lemmon. “Diversifying the Bench: An Exploration
of Women and the Supreme Court in Latin America.” Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the APSA,
Washington, DC, September1-4, 2005.
Avellaneda, Claudia N. and Chih-Cheng Meng. “Assessing the Effects of Decentralization on Economic
Inequality, Human Development, and Economic Growth.” At the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political
Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 7-10, 2005.
Avellaneda, Claudia N. “Latin American Ethnic Wars: Fractionalization, Political and Territorial Autonomy,
and Negative Spatial Diffusion of Ethnic War.” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association,
Chicago, IL, September 2-4, 2004.
Shaykhutdinov, Renat, Chih-Cheng Meng and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “Bringing Development In:
Decentralization and Economic Growth.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science
Association. Chicago, IL, September 2-4, 2004.
Avellaneda, Claudia N. “The Effects of Decentralization on Poverty Alleviation: A Latin American Study.”
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association, Corpus Christi, TX, March
17-20, 2004.
Escobar-Lemmon Maria, Claudia N. Avellaneda, and Felipe Botero. “Legislative Legacies: The Success and
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Failure of Legislation in Colombia.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science
Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 28-31, 2003.
Other Academic Training
• Social Choice Winter Institute of Foreign Policy Decision Making. Texas A&M University. January 2005.
• Conflict Resolution Winter Institute of Foreign Policy. Texas A&M University. 2004.
• Certificate on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution. Institute for International Mediation and Conflict
Resolution. Technological de Monterrey. Monterrey, Mexico. Summer 2003.
• Certificate on Management and Administration. Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander, Cúcuta, Colombia
1996.
Other Professional, Non-Political Science/Public Administration Experience
• Lieutenant on Reserve in the Colombian National Army, 1995-2000. Received military training, and offered
professional service to soldiers of the Grupo of Caballeria Maza and to rural, poor communities in the
province of Norte de Santander, Colombia.
• Bacteriologist and Medical Technologist. Avellaneda Clinical Laboratory, Cúcuta, Colombia, 1990-2000.
• Bacteriologist and Medical Technologist. Caja de Previsión Departamental, Cúcuta, Colombia, 1990-1999.
• Bacteriologist-Medical Technologist. Hospital San Jose, Arboledas, Colombia, 1988-1989.
Languages
Spanish (native), English