Maggie Shum

University of Notre Dame | Notre Dame, United States

Maggie Shum is a research and program associate for the Global Policy Initiative (GPI) in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.

She earned her Ph.D. in political science from Notre Dame, specializing in comparative politics with a focus on Latin America, Brazil and Hong Kong. She is interested in participatory policies, policy diffusion, political parties, contentious politics and elections.

Maggie’s dissertation, The Politics of Policy Diffusion: Party Organization Versus Individual Motivations in the Diffusion of Participatory Budgeting in Brazil, focuses on how participatory budgeting—a program heavily associated with the Workers’ Party—spread across Brazil and was adopted by politicians on both the left and right.