Sebastián Mazzuca

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University

Sebastián L. Mazzuca graduated in Political Science (MA, PhD) and Economics (MA) from the University of California at Berkeley and has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University’s Academy for International and Area Studies. His work focuses on state formation, regime change, and economic development, and has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Studies in International Comparative Development, Journal of Democracy, Hispanic American Historical Review, and the Oxford Handbook of Political Science.

Latest contributions 

VoxEU Column

Failed states and the paradox of civilisation: New lessons from history

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  • Economic history
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  • Politics and economics