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Research Interests
Comparative political behavior, political parties and democracy, political fragmentation, state capacity, electoral systems, and democratic erosion. Methodological interests in Bayesian statistics, causal inference, and machine learning. Regional focus on Latin American and European politics.
Biography
Mario Pino is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he specializes in Comparative Politics and Methodology. His research explores the connections between political fragmentation, state capacity, and democratic erosion, with a regional emphasis on Latin America and Europe. Methodologically, he draws on Bayesian statistics, causal inference, and machine learning to study these questions.
Before beginning his Ph.D. studies, Mario served as Project Director at the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Legislative Director in Chile’s Senate, Research Associate at the Chicago Center on Democracy, and Program Manager at the University of Chicago Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS).
He holds a B.A. in Law and Social Sciences and a J.D. from Universidad de Chile, an M.A. in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago, and an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.