Victor Menaldo

Political Science; political economy, comparative politics.

Victor Menaldo (Ph.D., Stanford University, 2009) is a professor of Political Science at UW and an affiliated faculty of the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS), Near and Middle Eastern Studies, and the Center for Environmental Politics. He specializes in comparative politics and political economy. Menaldo’s research focuses on the political economy of taxation and redistribution, the political economy of regulation, the political economy of regime change, and the political economy of natural resources.