Claudia Avellaneda

Assistant Professor

Office: Fretwell 435M
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Telehone: 704-687-4536

Select Publications

• Walker, Richard, Gene Brewer, George Boyne, Claudia N. Avellaneda. Forthcoming. “Market Orientation and Public Service Performance: NPM Gone Mad?” Public Administration Review.
• Walker, Richard, Claudia N. Avellaneda, and Frances Stokes Berry. Forthcoming. “The Diffusion of Innovation: A Longitudinal Empirical Test of the Berry and Berry Model.” Public Management Review.
• Avellaneda, Claudia N. 2009. “Municipal Performance: Does Mayoral Quality Matter? Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 19(2): 285-312.
• Avellaneda, Claudia N. 2009. “Mayoral Quality and Local Public Finance.”Public Administration Review, May/June: 469-486.
• Walker, Richard, Fariborz Damanpour, and Claudia N. Avellaneda. 2009. “Combinative Effects of Innovation Types on Organizational Performance: A Longitudinal Study of Public Services.” Journal of Management Studies, 46(4): 650-675.
• Walker, Richard, Fariborz Damanpour, and Claudia N. Avellaneda. “Combinative Effects of Innovation Types on Organizational Performance: A Longitudinal Study of Public Services.” Published in the Best Papers Proceedings of the 2007 Academy of Management Meeting.

• Rainey, Hal G., John Ronquillo, and Claudia N. Avellaneda. 2010. “Decision Making in Public Organizations.” In The Blackwell Handbook of Decision Making, eds. Paul C. Nutt and David Wilson. Wiley-Blackwell. Chapter 13. Pp349-377.

Biography

Dr. Claudia N. Avellaneda joined the Department of Political Science in August 2008.  In December 2007, she received her Ph.D. in political science from Texas A&M University, where she obtained the 2007 Bryan D. Jones Award, which is presented to the outstanding graduate student in Political Science at Texas A&M University. Dr. Avellaneda’s main research interests include comparative politics, public policy, and public management with a regional focus on Latin America. Specifically, she investigates the determinants of local governmental performance in Latin American municipalities by focusing on the role of the local chief executive (the mayor). She conducts field research in Latin American countries. For her PhD dissertation, which assessed the impact of mayors’ education and experience on social service delivery and public finance, she conducted personal interviews with 200 mayors from 12 Latin American countries. Currently, she is extending this line of research to 900 municipalities in Brazil, all the municipalities (1,100) in Colombia, and all the municipalities (261) in El Salvador. Dr Avellaneda’s research has been published in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, Public Management Review, and Journal of Management Studies.