Julieta Casas

Expertise

• State Capacity
• Bureaucratic Politics
• Bureaucracy
• Comparative Politics
• State Politics
• Latin American Politics
• American Political Development

LEARN MORE

• Download Headshot

• Fellow's Personal Website
• View Short Bios

  Julieta Casas

  Research and Teaching Fellow

  Short Bio

  Julieta Casas is a research fellow at the Hoover History Lab. Her research examines state development and governance, with an emphasis on the state bureaucracy and the role of patronage and personnel management in civil service reform. She investigates these dynamics in the United States and Latin America across both historical and contemporary settings, using novel administrative data and process tracing.

  Copy Bio

  Mid-Length Bio

  Julieta Casas is a research fellow at the Hoover History Lab. Her research examines state development and governance, with an emphasis on the state bureaucracy and the role of patronage and personnel management in civil service reform. She investigates these dynamics in the United States and Latin America across both historical and contemporary settings, using novel administrative data and process tracing.

  Casas is completing her book manuscript, Paths Out of Patronage: The Political Origins of Civil Service Reforms, which traces the roots of modern bureaucracies in the Americas. In addition, she is a cofounder and principal investigator of the Merit Project, a scholarly initiative to gather and analyze data on meritocratic recruitment in civil services worldwide.

  Casas received her PhD in political science from the Johns Hopkins University. Prior to joining the Hoover Institution, she was the Einstein-Moos postdoctoral fellow at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute, housed in the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. She was also an affiliated researcher at Stanford’s King Center on Global Development.

  Copy Bio

  To view, the complete bio visit https://www.hoover.org/profiles/julieta-casas.