Melissa Rogers

“Voting Your Region or Vote your Income? Decomposing Variance in Redistributive Voting”

Melissa Rogers is associate dean of the School of Social Science, Policy & Evaluation, co-director of the Inequality and Policy Research Center, and an associate professor of international studies in the Division of Politics & Economics at Claremont Graduate University. She is a specialist in comparative politics, political geography, political economy, Latin American politics, and comparative political institutions. Her work focuses on state institutional and economic development, with particular application to developing nations. Rogers earned her PhD from the University of California, San Diego, and her BA from Brown University.

Rogers’ specialty is the political economy of inequality and fiscal policy. Her work focuses in particular on the territorial incidence of inequality and its effects on national policymaking, national state-building, and the development of the fiscal state. Her first book examined the role of political institutions in shaping distribution of resources to economic classes and geographic regions. Two of her articles are forthcoming in the Journal of Politics. The first is focused on the long-run development of fiscal capacity. The second, co-authored with a former CGU PhD student, examines the effects of inter-regional inequality on public spending. Rogers’ recent publications in the Political Research Quarterly and the Latin American Research Review analyze state efforts to reduce inequality in developing nations. She is currently writing two books, Geography, Capacity, and Inequality, in progress with the Cambridge University Press Elements Series, and Limits to Equality, both with Pablo Beramendi.

Learn more about Melissa here:
https://www.cgu.edu/people/melissa-rogers/