Stephanie McNulty The Honorable & Mrs. John C. Kunkel Professor of Government
Biography
Dr. McNulty, Professor of Government, is a Latin Americanist with expertise in participatory governance, gender, decentralization, and development. Visit her website .
She is the author of and , which explore the effects of nationally mandated participatory reforms in the developing world. She also published Voice and Vote: Decentralization and Participation in Post-Fujimori Peru (Stanford University Press, 2011), which explores the origin and implementation of Peru's 2002 decentralization reform, considered to be one of the most participatory in Latin America. McNulty is a global expert on participatory democracy reforms as well as Peruvian politics, and has contributed to several and about their emergence and impact. Dr. McNulty's work has been published in several academic journals, such as Comparative Political Studies, Latin American Politics and Society, and the Journal of Development Studies.
During the pandemic, Dr. McNulty collaborated with student researchers and Church World Service to document the experience of undocumented immigrants in Lancaster, PA. Read the report .
Dr. McNulty has worked, lived, and conducted extensive fieldwork in Chile, Honduras, Peru, Bolivia, and Guatemala. She has a Ph.D. in Political Science from The George Washington University and a M.A. in Political Science from New York University. In addition to studying, teaching, and researching in several Latin American countries, Dr. McNulty worked for several years in the field of international development as a program manager and a monitoring and evaluation specialist. This experience led her to work on many USAID-funded projects around the world, including Guatemala, Bolivia, Liberia, and Kosovo.
Select Publications
2023. 鈥�.鈥� with Co-authored Jared Abbott and Katherine McKiernan (鈥�15, F&M). Comparative Political Studies.
2023. 鈥�.鈥� Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management. Co-authored with Brian Wampler and Mike Touchton.
2023. 鈥淧articipatory Budgeting and Community Development: A Global Assessment.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;American Behavioralist Scientist. Co-authored with Brian Wampler and Mike Touchton.
2019. Stanford University Press.
2018. 鈥�.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Global Discourse, 8:3, 532-549.
2017. 鈥�: Political Instability and Paralysis in Peru.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;NACLA.
2017. 鈥淧er煤 2016: Continuity and Change in an Electoral Year.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Revista de Ciencia Pol铆tica.
2016. 鈥淧eru鈥檚 Participatory Decentralization Reform.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy.
2015. 鈥淏arriers to Participation: Exploring Gender in Peru鈥檚 Participatory Budget Process.鈥� Journal of Development Studies 51(11). 1429-1443.
2015. 鈥� Pensamiento Propio 40. Special issue on 鈥淐itizen Participation in Latin America.鈥�
2014.&苍产蝉辫;鈥�.鈥� The Philadelphia Inquirer. July 31.
2013. "Institutions of Participatory Governance: Latin America's Response to a Failing Party System." SpazioFilosofico 9: 415-427.
2013. 鈥淧articipatory Democracy? Exploring Peru鈥檚 Efforts to Engage Civil Society in Local Governance.鈥�&苍产蝉辫; 55, 3: 69-92. .
2012. 鈥�,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Journal of Public Deliberation 8(2), Article 4.
2011.. Stanford University Press. (Reviewed in and )
2011. 鈥�? Exploring the Nature and Impact of Participatory Reform,鈥� co-authored with Brian Wampler. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC.
2011. 鈥�.鈥� The Philadelphia Inquirer A11, January 4.
2007. 鈥淧articipaci贸n y sociedad civil: Las experiencias con los CCRs y los presupuestos participativos en el Per煤.鈥� In Aldo Panfichi (ed.) La Participaci贸n Ciudadana en el Per煤. Disputas, confluencias y tensiones. Lima, Peru: Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Cat贸lica.
2007.鈥淒ecentralization and Participatory Local Governance: A Decision Space Analysis and Application to Peru.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Co-authored with Jennifer and Derrick Brinkerhoff. In Dennis Rondinelli and Shabbir Cheema (eds.) Decentralizing Governance: Devolution, Capacity, and Partnership. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.
Education
Professor McNulty has a Ph.D. in Political Science from and a M.A. in Political Science from New York University. She also has a B.A. in Politics from .
Grants & Awards
- Hewlett Foundation. 鈥淭he State of the Art of Participatory Budgeting.鈥� With Brian Wampler and Mike Touchton. 2017.
- American Association of University Women American Postdoctoral Fellow. 2012-2013.
- American Political Science Association鈥檚 Small Research Grant. 2012.
- Faculty Hackman and Committee on Grants Awards. Franklin & 四虎影院.
- Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Award, Peru. November 2004 鈥� October 2005.
- Fulbright Scholar, Peru. January - October 2004
- Consortium for Qualitative Research Methods, Tempe, Arizona. January 2003.
- George Washington University Fellow, George Washington University, Washington, DC. 1999-2002.
- Research Fellow, PromPer煤, Lima, Peru. 1996.
- Rotary International Fellow, Santiago, Chile. 1992-1993. Graduate study at Pontifica Universidad Cat贸lica de Chile.
Course Information
Power and Politics
Latin American Politics
Politics of Development