Madai Urteaga Quispe is a political scientist whose research is focused on the political economy of the adoption of agricultural technology in the Andean countries and the effects of rural mobilization on state-building in Peru.
Her dissertation, “Agrarian Developmentalism: The Politics of Development Strategies,” examines why some countries adopt pro-agricultural development strategies while industrializing, with a focus on Latin America. She argues that party systems and rural producers’ legislative strength shape whether and how governments support agriculture. She tests this argument through a comparative historical analysis of Colombia and Chile during the twentieth century using qualitative and quantitative analysis of original data collected during a year of fieldwork in both countries.
Urteaga Quispe has been published in Comparative Politics and has received awards from the Latin American Political Economy Network (REPAL) and the American Political Science Association’s Comparative Politics Section.
She holds a PhD in political science from Harvard University.