Agustina Giraudy

Dr. Agustina Giraudy is a full professor (tenured) of Political Science in the School of International Service at the American University. She was previously an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies at Harvard University and a lecturer at the Torcuato Di Tella University and the San Andrés University in Argentina.

Her research focuses on comparative politics, with an emphasis on subnational politics, federalism, and the territorial unevenness of democracy and state capacity in Latin America. She is the author of multiple articles in peer-reviewed journals and two books, the Democrats and Autocrats (Oxford University Press, 2015) and co-author of Inside Countries (Cambridge University Press, 2019). She founded and currently directs the Subnational Politics Project (SPP), a multi-country data initiative and dashboard on subnational political institutions in Latin America. She has conducted extensive field research in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and the Andean region.

She has been recognized with several awards, including the Best Journal Article Award from Regional and Federal Studies (2020), the Best Paper Award from the Latin American Studies Association (2016), and the Juan Linz Prize for Best Dissertation in the Comparative Study of Democracy from the American Political Science Association (2010), among others.

Agustina Giraudy joined Tecnológico de Monterrey as a Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democracy and Populism for the School of Social Sciences and Government and for the School of Government and Public Transformation.

• Ph.D., Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• M.A., Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• B.A., Political Science, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella 

• Alcañiz, I., & Giraudy, A. (2022). From international organizations to local governments: how foreign environmental aid reaches subnational beneficiaries in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. Environmental Politics, 32(4), 663–683. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2022.2124004

• Giraudy, A., & Niedzwiecki, S. (2021). Multi-level governance and subnational research: Similarities, differences, and knowledge accumulation in the study of territorial politics. Regional & Federal Studies, 32(3), 393–411. https://doi.org/10.1080/13597566.2021.1941900

• Diaz-Rioseco, D. and Giraudy, A. (2021), Unconditional Transfers Are Not Oil: The Economic Foundations of Subnational Undemocratic Regime Reproduction. Bull Lat Am Res, 40: 730-749. https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.13219

• Cyril Bennouna, Agustina Giraudy, Eduardo Moncada, Eva Rios, Richard Snyder, Paul Testa, Pandemic Policymaking in Presidential Federations: Explaining Subnational Responses to Covid-19 in Brazil, Mexico, and the United States, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 51, Issue 4, Fall 2021, Pages 570–600, https://doi.org/10.1093/publius/pjab025

• Benton, A. (2021). Inside Countries: Subnational Research in Comparative Politics. Edited by Agustina Giraudy, Eduardo Moncada, and Richard Snyder. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Perspectives on Politics, 19(1), 295–297. doi:10.1017/S1537592720004326

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