Katherine Bersch

Katherine Bersch

  • CDDRL Postdoctoral Fellow, 2015-16

Biography

Katherine Bersch is a Kellogg Fellow at the University of Notre Dame (2022-23) and the Nancy Akers and J. Mason Wallace Assistant Professor of Political Science at Davidson College. A research affiliate of the CDDRL Stanford Governance Project, she is also a co-founder of the Global Survey of Public Servants. Her research focuses on democratic quality in developing countries, with an emphasis on governance reform and state capacity in Latin America. She is the author of When Democracies Deliver: Governance Reform in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2019), which won the Van Cott Best Book Prize from LASA, the Levine Book Prize from IPSA, and the ASPA Prize for the Best Book Published in Public Administration.

 

publications

Journal Articles
June 2023

Defining Bureaucratic Autonomy

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Conference Memos
January 2023

Does Democracy Deliver? Opening the Black Box of the State

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