Jorge Mangonnet is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. His research lies at the intersection of comparative politics and political economy, with a focus on how states and societies create property rights and how these rights shape development, conflict, institutions, and behavior.
At Kellogg, Mangonnet will work on his book project, “Law of the Landless: Formalizing the Right to Exclude in Post-Emancipation Americas,” which examines how the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in plantation economies prompted landed elites to support the creation of private property rights over rural land. This research won the 2021 Mancur Olson Award for the Best Dissertation in Political Economy from the American Political Science Association.
Another strand of his research investigates the determinants of collective action among marginalized and excluded populations, particularly in rural areas beyond the effective reach of the state.
His work focuses primarily on Latin America and has appeared or is forthcoming in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Latin American Politics and Society, and in the Cambridge University Press Politics of Development Element Series.
Previously, Mangonnet was a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. He holds a PhD in political science from Columbia University and an MA in political science from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Buenos Aires, Argentina).