Lucy Luccisano

My research falls within the areas of political sociology, international development and gender, Mexican social policy and comparative urban policy and security in North America.

My initial research on conditional cash-transfer program examined Mexican social policy as an example of global poverty alleviation trends. My later research examined the ways in which poverty programs were experienced by poor women and how social policy was intertwined with practices of clientelism and citizenship.

My SSHRC Insight Development grant is a collaborative project with Paula Maurutto (University of Toronto), Laura Macdonald and Jill Wigle (Carleton University) which compares urban social policies and security Mexico City, New York City and Toronto.

When not on sabbatical, I am willing to supervise or sit on the committees of graduate students in the areas of political sociology, gender and development, and social policy and security.

• Luccisano, L. & L. Macdonald. “Guns and Butter: Social Policy, Semi-Clientelism and Efforts to Reduce Violence in Mexico”, in Tina Hilgers and Laura Macdonald (eds), Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean: Subnational Structures, Institutions, and Clientelism, (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2016).
• Luccisano, L. & L. Macdonald, “The impact of the global financial crisis on Mexican social policy”, in Stephen McBride, Rianne Mahon and Gerard Boychuk (eds), After ’08 Social Policy and the Global Financial Crisis, (University of British Columbia Press, 2015), pp. 181-196.
• Luccisano, L. & L. Macdonald, “Mexico and Social Protection by the Federal Government and the Federal District: Obstacles and Openings to a Social Protection Floor” Global Social Policy, 2014, (3).
• Luccisano, L. & G. Wall. “La configuracion de la maternidad a traves de la inversion social en los ninos. Ejemplos de Canada y Mexico”, Revista de El Colegio de San Luis. Nueva epoca, ano IV, numero 7, enero a junio: 180-202, 2014.
• Luccisano, L. & L. Macdonald, “Neo-liberalism, Semi-clientelism and the Politics of Scale in Mexican Anti-poverty Policies,” World Political Science Review. 8(1): 1-27, 2012.
• Luccisano, L. & L. Macdonald, "The Limits of Anti-Poverty Policy: Citizenship, Accountability and Semi-clientelism in Mexico’s Oportunidades Program, " in Jordi Díez and Susan Franceschet (eds), Comparative Public Policy in Latin America (University of Toronto Press, 2012), pp. 205-227.
• L. Luccisano & L. Macdonald, “Le néolibéralisme, le semi-clientélisme et la théorie politique de l’échelle dans les mesures anti-pauvreté mexicaines," Politique et Sociétés. 30(2): 173-201, 2011.

• L. Luccisano, & P. Maurutto, L. Macdonald, Jill Wigle. SSHRC Insight Development Grant, June 2016 ($74,395)
• L. Luccisano, Mitacs Globalink Research Award, February 2015 ($5,000)
• L. Luccisano & Kevin Spooner, Program for North American Mobility in Higher Education, Canadian Federal Government, October 2010 to October 2014, ($159,600)