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Diego Romero is an assistant professor in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also an affiliated researcher and former postdoctoral research associate at the University of Pennsylvania’s PDRI-DevLab@Penn. He earned his PhD in Political Science from Duke University, specializing in Political Economy and Political Methodology, in May of 2022.
His research focuses on the interface between corruption, civil society, democratic backsliding, and digital media. In exploring these themes, he employes a wide variety of methods to gather and analyze data, from survey experiments and fieldwork to web scraping, big data analytics, natural language processing, and advanced regression techniques. His research portfolio encompasses several projects that explore bureaucratic politics, political favoritism in public procurement, transparency, anti-corruption campaigns, and the impact of digital media on democratic backsliding. He also has ongoing projects on gender-based violence, the reintegration of deported migrants, and the gradient of state presence through its territory.
His research has been published in Comparative Political Studies, Governance, Political Behavior, Latin American Politics and Society, and the Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy.