Maria Victoria Murillo is Associate Professor of Political SMaria Victoria Murillo is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Columbia University. Shecience and International Affairs at Columbia University. She has been a faculty member at Yale University, a Fellow at t has been a faculty member at Yale University, a Fellow at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, and ahe Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, and a Peggy Rockefeller Fellow at the David Rockefeller Center fo Peggy Rockefeller Fellow at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. She is the ar Latin American Studies at Harvard University. She is the author of Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions, and Market Reforuthor of Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions, and Market Reforms in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and cms in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and co-editor of Argentine Democracy: The Politics of Institutiono-editor of Argentine Democracy: The Politics of Institutional Weakness (2005). Her articles have appeared in numerous Ual Weakness (2005). Her articles have appeared in numerous US and Latin American social science journals, and she was coS and Latin American social science journals, and she was co-recipient of the Luebbert Award for the best article from t-recipient of the Luebbert Award for the best article from the Comparative Politics Section of APSA in 2004. he Comparative Politics Section of APSA in 2004.