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Guillermo Toral

Faculty Affiliate

email gtoral@mit.edu

website http://www.guillermotoral.com/

Guillermo is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. He is Faculty Affiliate at MIT GOV/LAB and holds a PhD in Political Science from MIT. His research focuses on relationships among state actors (politicians, bureaucrats, and anti-corruption agents) and how they shape public service delivery and human development. His work uses big administrative datasets, surveys, and extensive qualitative fieldwork to shed light on dynamics of within-government accountability. Guillermo is writing a book on “The political logics of patronage,” or the different ways in which local politicians in Brazil use public employment, and what those strategies mean for the quality of public services like education and healthcare. As part of that project and with MIT GOV/LAB support, he implemented surveys of bureaucrats and politicians, as well as a field experiment in partnership with the State Audit Court of Rio Grande do Norte.

Projects

  • Projects December 2020

    Governance Innovation

    Our initiative combining evidence and methods from design and social science to co-develop governance solutions with practitioner partners.

  • Research March 2020

    Information and Accountability: Evidence Syntheses of Within-Government and Citizen-Government Accountability Pathways

    Full report on the evidence syntheses undertaken for the Transparency and Accountability Initiative as part of the Learning from Evidence series.

  • Research November 2018

    Effect of International Standards on Accountability Behaviors

    Evidence review on the impact of international norms and standards initiatives on accountability.

  • Research November 2018

    Taxation and Accountability in Developing Countries

    Does taxation motivate citizens to hold government accountable? How is taxation increased and tax evasion decreased?

  • Projects April 2018

    Personnel Politics: How Politics in Bureaucrat Hiring Impacts Local Governance

    Politics often influence the hiring of bureaucrats around the world, but how this practice impacts local government effectiveness and accountability is not well understood.

  • Projects March 2018

    Unpacking the Black Box of Government Decision-Making

    What incentivizes local officials to respond to citizen needs and demands? What constraints, motivations, and considerations influence the behavior of bureaucrats?

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