Degrees:
Ph.D., Harvard Univ.
M.A., Harvard Univ.
M.A., Univ. Torcuato Di Tella
B.A., Univ. de Buenos Aires
Belén Fernández Milmanda holds a PhD in Political Science from Harvard University. She researches how economic elites influence policy making in Latin America with a focus on distributive and environmental politics. Her award-winning book, Agrarian Elites and Democracy in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2024), studies the strategies (electoral and non-electoral) that agrarian elites employ to make democracy work to their advantage. Professor Fernández Milmanda has also studied the political determinants of forest protection in the Argentine Chaco Forest.
Professor Fernández Milmanda is currently working on two new research projects. In one, she explores the challenges that tackling climate change creates for democracies in the developing world. In the other, together with Andrea Vilán at American University, they study the determinants of Latin American countries adherence to the Escazú Agreement, the first international treaty in the world to protect the lives of environmental defenders.
She holds a MA in Political Science from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Argentina and a BA in Sociology from the University of Buenos Aires.
Her work has appeared in World Development, Politics and Society, and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia on Latin American Politics.
At Trinity, Professor Fernández Milmanda teaches courses on Latin American politics, environmental politics, political economy, the politics of inequality, and climate change. |
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Comparative Politics
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Latin American Politics
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Environmental Politics
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Political Economy
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Qualitative methods
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Latin American Politics
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Interest Groups Politics
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Political Economy
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Environmental Politics
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Book
Peer-Reviewed Articles:
- 2022. “Harvesting Influence: Agrarian Elites and Democracy in Brazil,” Politics and Society (on line first)
- 2020. “The Multilevel Politics of Enforcement: Environmental Institutions in Argentina,” (with Candelaria Garay) Politics & Society, 48(1), 3-26.
- 2019. “Subnational Variation in Forest Protection in the Argentine Chaco Forest,” (with Candelaria Garay) World Development, 118, 79-90.
- 2012. “El Nuevo Liderazgo Sindical en la Argentina Post Neoliberal: el Caso de la Federación de Trabadores Camioneros,” (with Enzo Benes) Desarrollo Económico, Vol. 52 N° 205 (April-Jun 2012), 31-61.
- 2010. “Moderación Reivindicativa en el Nuevo Contexto Macroeconómico post 2001: El Caso del Sindicato de Comercio,” (with Enzo Benes) Revista SAAP, Vol. 4 N°1 (Jul-Dec 2010).
- “La CGT Disidente frente a la Crisis y Salida del Régimen Convertible,” Realidad Económica N° 250 (Feb-Mar 2010), 75-104.
Book chapters:
- 2020. “A Multilevel Approach to Enforcement: Forest Protection in the Argentine Chaco.” (with Candelaria Garay) In D. Brinks, S. Levitsky, & M. Murillo (Eds.), The Politics of Institutional Weakness in Latin America (pp. 183-207). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- 2019. “Agrarian Elites and Democracy in Latin America after the Third Wave,” in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American Politics.
- 2013. “Cuellos no tan Blancos. Los Trabajadores de Supermercados y su Desafío al Viejo Modelo Sindical Mercantil,” in C. Senén González & A. del Bono (Comp.): Revitalización Sindical en Argentina. Heterogeneidades Sectoriales (pp. 151-176), PROMETEO-UNLaM, Buenos Aires.
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- Donna Lee Van Cott Best Book Award 2024
- Best Book Award 2024, LASA Economics and Politics Section
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