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Victor Menaldo (Ph.D., Stanford University, 2009) is an assistant professor of
Political Science at the University of Washington. He specializes in comparative politics, with an emphasis on the political economy of development. Menaldo's research focuses on four substantive issues: states' capacity to tax and redistribute wealth and income, the political economy of autocratic regimes, the politics of democratic transition, and the so-called resource curse.
He is currently working on a book project that explores the evolution of state
capacity in Latin America over the long run and highlights the discontinuous and cyclical trajectory of these states' fiscal, legal and bureaucratic capabilities.
Menaldo's teaching interests include comparative political economy, the study of political and economic development, the political economy of Latin America, and the politics of property rights.
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