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Mariely Lopez-Santana is an Assistant Professor of Politics and Government at George Mason University. She holds a PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2006), and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the European University Institute (Max Weber Program) and the Erasmus Mundus MAPP program in Barcelona. Her research focuses on comparative federalism, welfare state governance, Europeanization, and multilevel governance. She examines how soft law and policy frameworks influence domestic and transnational policy dynamics, with particular attention to employment policy and intergovernmental coordination.
Her academic contributions include a forthcoming SUNY Press book, *The New Governance of Welfare States in the United States and Europe: Between Decentralization and Centralization in the Activation Era*, which analyzes how welfare policies adapt to economic crises and transnational pressures. Her work bridges comparative politics and international relations, emphasizing the interplay between domestic policy structures and supranational frameworks like the EU’s Open Method of Coordination.
Lopez-Santana’s research spans social policy evaluation (e.g., child tax credit effectiveness during the pandemic), fiscal federalism responses to crises (Puerto Rico debt crisis, Great Recession), and the mythos surrounding transnational criminal organizations like MS-13. Her recent work engages with emerging issues in regional governance and the evolving architectures of democratic accountability.
Awarded prestigious postdoctoral fellowships, Lopez-Santana’s scholarly trajectory reflects a commitment to rigorous qualitative analysis of subnational and transnational policy dynamics. She teaches courses on comparative federalism, welfare policy, and European governance at George Mason University.
