Mariely Lopez-Santana's Website
Associate Professor of Government and Politics
Schar School of Policy and Government
George Mason University
Orcid: 0000-0002-9277-6230
Prof. Mariely López-Santana is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. Dr. López-Santana earned her PhD in 2006 from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor).
Dr. López-Santana’s research and teaching interests are threefold (but are centered around the State, political economy, and multilevel governance): (1) the politics and governance of welfare states, and employment and social policy in Western Europe and the United States, (2) States’ reactions to a variety of social problems, including labor market exclusion, fiscal and financial crises, the COVID-19 pandemic, and gang activity, and (3) the politics, policies and governance of multilevel systems, including her current book project on the Puerto Rican financial crisis. She has also worked on the topic of Europeanization, as well as on new modes of governance (including soft law). Her first book entitled The New Governance of Welfare States in the United States and Europe: Between Decentralization and Centralization in the Activation Era (SUNY Press, 2015) explores contemporary changes in the organization of welfare states in Italy, Germany, Spain, the UK, and the United States.
Prior to joining George Mason University, she was Max Weber Post-Doctoral Fellow at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). In addition, in 2010 she received a grant to be an Erasmus Mundus MAPP Visiting Scholar at the Institut Barcelona D' Estudis Internacionals (IBEI). She has also been a visiting scholar at the Center for Political and Constitutional Studies (Madrid, Spain), SCORE (Stockholm, Sweden), Juan March Foundation (Madrid), and the Free University of Brussels.
Dr. Lopez-Santana is a past director of both the School's MA and PhD programs in Political Science. She is the co-director of the "Minority Graduate Placement Program" (MIGAP) and the NSF-funded Mobilization and Political Economy Summer Program. She is also a member of the Executive Board Member of the Comparative Federalism and Multilevel Governance Section (Research Committee 28) from the International Political Science Association. Finally, she is the book review editor for Publius: The Journal of Federalism.
For more information, refer to her CV.
Dr. López-Santana’s research and teaching interests are threefold (but are centered around the State, political economy, and multilevel governance): (1) the politics and governance of welfare states, and employment and social policy in Western Europe and the United States, (2) States’ reactions to a variety of social problems, including labor market exclusion, fiscal and financial crises, the COVID-19 pandemic, and gang activity, and (3) the politics, policies and governance of multilevel systems, including her current book project on the Puerto Rican financial crisis. She has also worked on the topic of Europeanization, as well as on new modes of governance (including soft law). Her first book entitled The New Governance of Welfare States in the United States and Europe: Between Decentralization and Centralization in the Activation Era (SUNY Press, 2015) explores contemporary changes in the organization of welfare states in Italy, Germany, Spain, the UK, and the United States.
Prior to joining George Mason University, she was Max Weber Post-Doctoral Fellow at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). In addition, in 2010 she received a grant to be an Erasmus Mundus MAPP Visiting Scholar at the Institut Barcelona D' Estudis Internacionals (IBEI). She has also been a visiting scholar at the Center for Political and Constitutional Studies (Madrid, Spain), SCORE (Stockholm, Sweden), Juan March Foundation (Madrid), and the Free University of Brussels.
Dr. Lopez-Santana is a past director of both the School's MA and PhD programs in Political Science. She is the co-director of the "Minority Graduate Placement Program" (MIGAP) and the NSF-funded Mobilization and Political Economy Summer Program. She is also a member of the Executive Board Member of the Comparative Federalism and Multilevel Governance Section (Research Committee 28) from the International Political Science Association. Finally, she is the book review editor for Publius: The Journal of Federalism.
For more information, refer to her CV.
