Paula Muñoz is a Full Professor at the Universidad del Pacífico in Peru and a researcher at its Research Center (CIUP), a policy-oriented institution widely recognized for its contributions in applied research on major social, economic, and public policy issues. Paula studies clientelism and patronage, civil society demand-making, sub-national politics, corruption, democratic accountability, and the politics of plastic regulation. Her research focuses on Latin America. She earned her PhD and her MA in Government at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Buying Audiences: Clientelism and Electoral Campaigns When Parties Are Weak (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and co-author of Prosecutors, Voters and The Criminalization of Corruption in Latin America: The Case of Lava Jato (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
Paula Muñoz is a Full Professor at the Universidad del Pacífico in Peru and a researcher at its Research Center (CIUP), a policy-oriented institution widely recognized for its contributions in applied research on major social, economic, and public policy issues. Paula studies clientelism and patronage, civil society demand-making, sub-national politics, corruption, democratic accountability, and the politics of plastic regulation. Her research focuses on Latin America. She earned her PhD and her MA in Government at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Buying Audiences: Clientelism and Electoral Campaigns When Parties Are Weak (Cambridge University Press, 2009)…