Publications
- Altamirano, Melina. 2025. “Delegated Governance in Segmented Welfare Regimes: How Non‐State Provision Shaped Childcare Policy Outcomes in Mexico”, Social Policy & Administration, 59, no. 6: 1072–1083. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.70002.
- Altamirano, Melina. 2025. “Early Childhood Education, Policy Design, and Skills-Enhancing Goals in Latin America”, in Juan A. Bogliaccini and Aldo Madariaga (eds.), Skills, Values, and Development: The Political Economy of Education in Latin America. Oxford University Press.
- Altamirano, Melina and Laura Flamand. 2025. “Entre el universalismo y la recentralización: la política social del gobierno de López Obrador en México (2018-2024)”. Foro Internacional, 1–58. DOI: 10.24201/fi.3126
- Altamirano, Melina, Sarah Berens and Sandra Ley. 2024. “Security or Social Spending? Perceptions of Insecurity, Victimization, and Policy Priorities in Mexico and Brazil”. Political Studies, 72(1): 134–157. (Honorable mention for the 2024 Harrison Prize from Political Studies)
- Altamirano, Melina and Bárbara Zárate-Tenorio. 2022. “Trade Unions, Labor Market Dualization, and Investment in Early Childhood Education and Care in Latin America”, in Julian Garritzmann, Silja Häusermann, and Bruno Palier (eds.), The World Politics of Social Investment (Volume I): The Welfare State in the Century of Knowledge. Oxford University Press.
- Altamirano, Melina, Sarah Berens and Franziska Deeg. 2022. “Varieties of Economic Vulnerability: Evidence on Social Policy Preferences and Labor Informality from Mexico.” Latin American Politics and Society, 64(2), 139-168. doi:10.1017/lap.2022.9
- Altamirano, Melina and Laura Flamand (eds.). 2021. Desigualdades sociales en México. Legados y desafíos desde una perspectiva multidisciplinaria. Ciudad de México, México: El Colegio de México.
- Altamirano, Melina and Sandra Ley. 2020. “The Economy, Security, and Corruption in the 2018 Presidential Election. Campaign issues and electoral preferences in Mexico”, Política y gobierno, 27(2): 1–39. [Español | English]
- Altamirano, Melina, Sarah Berens and Sandra Ley. 2020. “The Welfare State amid Crime: How Victimization and Perception of Insecurity Affect Social Policy Preferences in Latin America and the Caribbean”, Politics & Society, 48(3): 389–422. (2021 Seligson Prize from LAPOP, Vanderbilt University)
- Altamirano, Melina. 2020. “Política social e igualdad de género en México, 2012-2018”, Foro Internacional, LX, núm. 2, cuad. 240, 755-789. DOI: 10.24201/fi.v60i2.2738.
- Altamirano, Melina. 2019. “Economic Vulnerability and Partisanship in Latin America.” Latin American Politics and Society, 61, no. 3: 80–103.
- Trejo, Guillermo and Melina Altamirano. 2016. “The Mexican Color Hierarchy: How Race and Skin Tone Still Define Life Chances 200 Years after Independence” in Hooker, J. and Tillery, A. (eds.), The Double Bind: The Politics of Racial and Class Inequalities in the Americas, American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C.
- Kitschelt, Herbert and Melina Altamirano. 2015. “Clientelism in Latin America. Effort and Effectiveness” in Ryan Carlin, Matthew Singer, and Elizabeth Zechmeister (eds.), The Latin American Voter, University of Michigan Press.
- Wibbels, Erik, David Rueda and Melina Altamirano. 2015. “The Origins of Dualism”, in Pablo Beramendi, Silja Häusermann, Herbert Kitschelt and Hanspeter Kriesi (eds.), The Politics of Advanced Capitalism, Cambridge University Press.
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