Paula Clerici

Political Science

Short bio

I am a Researcher at Argentina’s National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) and an Associate Professor of Political Science at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. I also serve as Director of the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Computational Social Science (iLCSS–University of Maryland) in Argentina. I hold a PhD in Political Science from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and an MA in Social Research from the University of Warwick. I have been a visiting fellow at the University of Maryland (2017), Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg (2018), and Tulane University (2025), and I am a Chevening and Fulbright alumna.

My research examines the relationship between electoral competition and political decision-making, with a particular focus on political institutions, legislative behavior, executive-legislative relations, cabinets, political coalitions, party systems, and federalism. Methodologically, my work relies primarily on quantitative research designs and survey experiments. My research has appeared in Government and Opposition, Studies in Comparative International Development, Legislative Studies Quarterly, The Journal of Legislative Studies, Governance, Publius, Journal of Politics in Latin America, and several Spanish-speaking journals.

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