Tulia Falleti is the Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of Political Science, affiliated faculty of the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies and of the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program, and Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics. Falleti is the author of Decentralization and Subnational Politics in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2010), recipient of the Donna Lee Van Cott Award from the Latin American Studies Association, and Participation in Social Policy (with Santiago Cunial, Elements in the Politics of Development, Cambridge University Press, 2018). She is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism (Oxford University Press, 2016) and Latin America Since the Left Turn (University of Pennsylvania, 2018), among other co-edited volumes. Her peer-reviewed articles on decentralization, federalism, authoritarianism, participation, Indigenous peoples, and qualitative methods have appeared in the American Political Science Review, World Politics, World Development, Comparative Political Studies, Publius, Qualitative Sociology, and Studies in Comparative International Development, among other journals. Falleti, as the principal investigator of a transdisciplinary team, was awarded a $5 million grant from the Mellon Foundation's Just Futures Initiative. With partners throughout the Americas, the team has researched “Dispossessions in the Americas: The Extraction of Bodies, Land, and Cultural Heritage from La Conquista to the Present.” At the University of Pennsylvania, Falleti has served as Director of the Latin American and Latinx Studies Program (2016-2021), founding Director of the Center for Latin America and Latinx Studies (2021-2024), Chair-elect (2022-2023) and Chair (2023-2024) of the Faculty Senate.
Ph.D. Political Science, Northwestern University.
B.A. Sociology, University of Buenos Aires.
- Comparative Politics
- Latin American Politics
- Democratization
- Indigenous peoples, policies, and politics.
- Federalism and Decentralization
- Community Participation
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Historical Institutionalism
- Latin American Politics
- Introduction to Comparative Politics
- People of the Land: Indigeneity and Politics in Argentina and Chile
- Comparative Politics of Federalism and Decentralization
- Democratization
- Transitions to Democracy
- Democracy and Decentralization in Latin America
- Social Capital and Trust
Books:
Participation in Social Policy. Falleti, Tulia G. and Santiago Cunial, 2018, Elements in the Politics of Development, Cambridge University Press.
Latin America Since the Left Turn. Falleti, Tulia G. and Emilio Parrado (eds.) 2017, Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. [See table of contents, contributors, and introduction here]
The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism. Fioretos, Orfeo, Tulia G. Falleti and Adam Sheingate (eds.) 2016, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. [See table of contents, contributors, and introduction here]
El Federalismo Argentino en Perspectiva Comparada [Argentine Federalism in Comparative Perspective] Falleti, Tulia G., Lucas González and Martín Lardone (eds.) 2012, Córdoba: EDUCC – Editorial de la Universidad Católica de Córdoba; Buenos Aires: Educa. (Reprinted, Buenos Aires: EDUCA 2013) [See table of contents, contributors, and introduction here]
Decentralization and Subnational Politics in Latin America, 2010, New York: Cambridge University Press. (Buy this book from Amazon or the publisher.)
Selected Articles:
Falleti, Tulia G., Santiago L. Cunial, Selene Bonczok Sotelo, and Favio Crudo. 2024. “State and NGO Coproduction of Health Care in the Gran Chaco,” World Development, 176, 19 pages.
Falleti, Tulia G. 2024. “Studying Indigenous Peoples’ Politics: Recommendations for Non-Indigenous Researchers” in Cyr, Jennifer and Sara Wallace Goodman, Editors, Doing Good Qualitative Research, Oxford University Press, Chapter 24.
Falleti, Tulia G. 2020. “Invisible to Political Science: Indigenous Politics in a World in Flux,” review essay, Journal of Politics, Nov. online.
Falleti, Tulia G. and Santiago L. Cunial. 2019. “Participación cívica en programas de salud pública: el caso de Argentina,” [Civic programmatic participation in public health: the case of Argentina], CSP Cadernos De Saúde Pública, 35 (2), 1-18.
Falleti, Tulia G. and Thea N. Riofrancos. 2018. “Endogenous Participation: Strengthening Prior Consultation in Extractive Economies.” World Politics. Vol. 70, No. 1.
Davies, Emmerich, and Tulia G. Falleti. 2017. "Poor People’s Participation: Neoliberal Institutions or Left Turn?" Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 50, Issue 12, 1699-1731.
Falleti, Tulia G. 2016. "Process tracing of extensive and intensive processes.” New Political Economy, Volume 21 (5), 455-462.
Falleti, Tulia G., and James Mahoney. 2015. "The Comparative Sequential Method." In Advances in Comparative-Historical Analysis, ed. J. Mahoney and K. Thelen. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 211-39. Spanish Translation: here
Falleti, Tulia G. 2013 “Decentralization in Time: A Process-Tracing Approach to Federal Dynamics of Change,” in Arthur Benz and Jörg Broschek (eds.) Federal Dynamics: Continuity, Change and Varieties of Federalism, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 140-166.
Falleti, Tulia G. 2011 “Varieties of Authoritarianism: The Organization of the Military State and its Effect on Federalism in Argentina and Brazil.” Studies in Comparative International Development, 46 (2), 137-162 (Lead Article).
Falleti, Tulia G. 2010 “Infiltrating the State: The Evolution of Health Care Reforms in Brazil, 1964-1988” in James Mahoney and Kathleen Thelen (eds.) Explaining Institutional Change: Ambiguity, Agency, and Power, New York: Cambridge University Press, Chapter 2, 38-62. Portuguese Translation here.
Falleti, Tulia G. and Julia Lynch. 2009 “Context and Causal Mechanisms in Political Analysis,” Comparative Political Studies, 42 (9), 1143-1166 (Lead Article).
Falleti, Tulia G. and Julia Lynch. 2008 “From Process to Mechanism: Varieties of Disaggregation,” Qualitative Sociology, 31 (3), 333-339.
Falleti, Tulia G. 2007. “S’emparer du pouvoir ou créer du pouvoir? Les héritages des régimes militaires dans la décentralisation en Argentine et au Brésil” [To Seize or to Create Power? The Legacies of Militarism on Decentralization in Argentina and Brazil], Critique Internationale (France), 35 (April-June), 101-117.
Falleti, Tulia G. 2006. “Efeitos da Descentralização nas Relações Intergovernamentais: O Brasil em Perspectiva Comparada” [The effects of decentralization on intergovernmental relations: Brazil in comparative perspective], Sociologias (Brazil), 16 (July-December), 46-85.
Falleti, Tulia G. 2005 “A Sequential Theory of Decentralization: Latin American Cases in Comparative Perspective,” American Political Science Review, 99 (3), 327-346. (Winner of the 2006 Gregory Luebbert Article Award from the Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.)
Cameron, Maxwell A. and Tulia G. Falleti. 2005 “Federalism and the Subnational Separation of Powers,” Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 35 (2), 245-271.
Gibson, Edward L. and Tulia G. Falleti. 2004 “Unity by the Stick: Regional Conflict and the Origins of Argentine Federalism,” in Edward L. Gibson (ed.), Federalism and Democracy in Latin America, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 226-254.
Gibson, Edward L., Ernesto Calvo and Tulia G. Falleti. 2004 “Reallocative Federalism: Legislative Overrepresentation and Public Spending in the Western Hemisphere,” in Edward L. Gibson (ed.), Federalism and Democracy in Latin America, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 173-196.
Gibson, Edward L., Ernesto Calvo and Tulia G. Falleti. 1999. “Federalismo redistributivo: sobrerrepresentación territorial y la transferencia de ingresos en el hemisferio occidental” [Reallocative Federalism: Legislative Overrepresentation and Public Spending in the Western Hemisphere], Política y Gobierno (Mexico), VI (1), 15-40 (Lead Article).
Portuguese translation: Gibson, Edward L., Ernesto Calvo and Tulia G. Falleti. 2003. “Federalismo realocativo: Sobre-representação legislativa e gastos públicos no hemisfério occidental”, Opinião Pública (Brazil), IX (1), 98-123.
Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies
Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics
Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Program & the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies