Paula Muñoz is a Full Professor at the Universidad del Pacífico in Peru. She received her PhD and MA in Government from the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of “Buying Audiences: Clientelism and Electoral Campaigns When Parties Are Weak” (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and co-author of “Prosecutors, Voters and The Criminalization of Corruption in Latin America: The Case of Lava Jato” (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Her research interests include distributive politics, corruption, sub-national politics, democratic accountability, and, more recently, the politics of plastics regulation.