#  Joshua Fording 

Graduate Student Affiliate.

PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University.

 

 

 



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**Research interests:** Political economy of development; political behavior; Latin America; informality; victimization; participatory institutions; the welfare state; contentious politics; and political and economic transitions.

**Pronouns:** he/him



 

 

 





 

 

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