Rate My Professor Giuliana Pardelli

Pardelli’s research examines the relationship between inequality, state-building, and state capacity, with a particular emphasis on Latin America and the determinants of subnational variation in fiscal capacity and public goods provision. Her key publications include “Ethnoracial Homogeneity and Public Outcomes: The (Non)effects of Diversity” (with Alexander Kustov, American Political Science Review, 2018), “When Coethnicity Fails” (with Alexander Kustov, World Politics, 2022), and “When do Economic Elites Support Increasing Taxation? Evidence from the American South” (with Jeffrey Jensen and Jeffrey F. Timmons, Journal of Politics, forthcoming). Her research has been funded by the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice, and Princeton’s Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS). Pardelli received the McGillivray Best Paper Award from the APSA Political Economy Section in 2019, a PIIRS Fellowship from the University Center for Human Values (2018-2019), a PIIRS Dissertation Grant ($10,000, 2017), and other grants including from the Center for Globalization and Governance ($5,000, 2017). She has taught courses including Introduction to Comparative Politics (2019), Inequality (2017), Comparative Political Economy of Development (2022), and Latin American Politics (2016), and serves as a reviewer for journals such as American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, and Comparative Political Studies.