Julieta Casas is a Research Fellow in the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Her research examines state development and governance, with an emphasis on the state bureaucracy and the role of patronage and personnel management in civil service reform. Casas received her PhD in political science from the Johns Hopkins University. Prior to joining the Hoover Institution, she was the Einstein-Moos Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute, housed in the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law.