Jorge Mangonnet

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Vanderbilt University and a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University's Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS).

I study comparative politics and political economy, focusing on how states and societies create property rights institutions and how these institutions shape development, conflict, and behavior. I am also interested in the determinants of collective action among marginalized and excluded populations, particularly in rural and peripheral areas beyond the effective reach of the state. My research primarily focuses on Latin America.

Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. I received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University in 2020.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Family Ties, Social Control, and Authoritarian Distribution to Elites

with Antonella Bandiera and Horacio Larreguy. 2026. American Political Science Review 120(1): 226–244.

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Peasant Resistance in Times of Economic Affluence: Lessons from Paraguay

with Rocío Liliana Duarte Recalde, Germán Feierherd, and M. Victoria Murillo. 2025. Comparative Political Studies 58(3): 494–525.

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Playing Politics with Environmental Protection: The Political Economy of Designating Protected Areas

with Jacob Kopas and Johannes Urpelainen. 2022. Journal of Politics 84(3): 1453–1468.

Article Appendix Replication Data Evan Ringquist Award to the Best Article in Science, Technology & Environmental Politics (APSA)

This article was independently reproduced and replicated by the Institute for Replication (I4R) (Villalobos, Caviglia-Harris, & Jayalath 2023).

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Protests of Abundance: Distributive Conflict over Agricultural Rents during the Commodities Boom in Argentina, 2003–2013

with M. Victoria Murillo. 2020. Comparative Political Studies 53(8): 1223–1258.

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Local Economic Voting and the Agricultural Boom in Argentina, 2007–2015

with M. Victoria Murillo and Julia M. Rubio. 2018. Latin American Politics and Society 60(8): 27–53.

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Argentina: Voters' Influence and Electoral Alternation

with M. Victoria Murillo and Julia M. Rubio. 2018. Revista de Ciencia Política 36(1): 3–26.

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Competitiveness, Partisanship, and Subnational Protest in Argentina

with Moisés Arce. 2013. Comparative Political Studies 46(8): 895–919.

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Book Chapters

Public Goods Provision and Elite Centrality: Evidence from Paraguay's Democratic Transition

with Antonella Bandiera, Horacio Larreguy, and José Luis Pérez Castellanos. In Roots of Underdevelopment: A New Economic and Political History of Latin America and the Caribbean, Vol. II (F. Valencia Caicedo, ed.). Forthcoming.

Working Papers

Emancipation, Labor Control, and Property Rights Formation

Mancur Olson Award to the Best Dissertation in Political Economy (APSA)
Why Landowners Support Property Rights

Lanahan Award to Best Graduate Student Paper (NPSA)
Slavery and Political Dynasties
Formal Land Access, Formal Labor, and Engagement with the State: Evidence from a Land Lottery in Argentina

with Antonella Bandiera, Lucas Borba, and Horacio Larreguy.
Did Slavery Make Stronger States? Mixed Evidence from Brazil

with Alexander Dean.
Ethnic Threats and the Making of Nation and State in the Frontier

with Christopher L. Carter, Paola Galano Toro, and Federico Lombisano.
The Insurgent Roots of Indigenous Rights Litigation

with Sofía Berrospi and Ezequiel González-Ocantos.
Far-Right Movements, Conservative Parties, and the Death of Democracy

with Federico Lombisano.
Triggering Events, Trade, and Slave Resistance in the American South

with Colette Marcellin.