Karen L. Remmer

Journal Article Electoral Studies · April 1, 2021 Why do voters shift partisan allegiances between elections and/or within electoral cycles? Drawing on panel survey data, this study is designed to enhance our understanding of shifting partisan preferences byexploring vote switching and split-ticket voting ... Full text Cite

Investment treaty arbitration in latin America

Journal Article Latin American Research Review · January 1, 2019 This study analyzes variations in the incidence of state involvement in investment treaty arbitration in Latin America and the Caribbean over the 1987-2014 period. Its main contributions are fourfold. First, by focusing on the balance of incentives and opp ... Full text Cite

The Reputational Impact of Investor-State Disputes

Journal Article International Interactions · September 3, 2018 To what extent do alleged violations of international commitments damage state reputation? This article explore this question with specific reference to investor-state disputes arising under the protection of international investment agreements. Its main c ... Full text Cite

The Political Economy of Investor-State Disputes

Journal Article · December 21, 2015 Cite

Exogenous shocks and democratic accountability: Evidence from the Caribbean

Journal Article Comparative Political Studies · July 1, 2014 This study attempts to contribute to the growing debate over democratic accountability by focusing on the electoral impact of natural disasters and economic crises in the Caribbean. Although largely ignored by political science, the polities in the region ... Full text Cite

Exogenous Shocks and Democratic Accountability

Journal Article Comparative Political Studies · 2013 Cite

Commentary

Chapter · January 1, 2013 Cite

The Rise of Leftist-Populist Governance in Latin America

Journal Article Comparative Political Studies · August 2012 Cite

The Rise of Leftist- Populist Governance in Latin America: The Roots of Electoral Change

Journal Article Comparative Political Studies · August 1, 2012 Over the past decade the contours of political party competition in Latin America have been dramatically altered by an upsurge of support for leftist-populist parties and the related weakening of established parties on the center and right end of the polit ... Full text Cite

Political scale and electoral turnout: Evidence from the less industrialized world

Journal Article Comparative Political Studies · March 1, 2010 This article attempts to bring the politics of scale back into the study of comparative politics. Explicitly focusing on the question of electoral turnout in the less industrialized world, it explores the impact of variations in community size relative to ... Full text Cite

The Impact of Political Scale on Turnout

Journal Article Comparative Political Studies · 2010 Cite

Why Do Small States have Big Governments?

Journal Article European Political Science Review · 2010 Cite

The politics of institutional change: Electoral reform in Latin America, 1978-2002

Journal Article Party Politics · January 1, 2008 Building on the growing body of research on political institutions, this article explores the causes of electoral reform, with specific reference to Latin America. What factors account for the extensive array of electoral reforms adopted in the region sinc ... Full text Cite

The political economy of patronage: Expenditure patterns in the Argentine Provinces, 1983-2003

Journal Article Journal of Politics · May 1, 2007 Under what conditions do politicians emphasize patronage allocations over the provision of public goods? Building upon research on democratic policy management, this paper aims to improve our understanding of patronage politics by focusing upon the politic ... Full text Cite

Political decentralization and electoral accountability: The argentine experience, 1983-2001

Journal Article British Journal of Political Science · January 1, 2006 To what extent does public support for subnational officials fluctuate in response to local rather than national performance? Are the policy failures of subnational officials reliably punished by voters? Drawing upon both individual and aggregate level dat ... Full text Cite

Does Foreign Aid Promote the Expansion of Government?

Journal Article American Journal of Political Science · January 1, 2004 Building on the literature on public finance, I seek to advance our understanding of variations in government size by exploring the impact of official development assistance on fiscal policy. I hypothesize that foreign aid operates in accordance with the " ... Full text Cite

Subnational electoral choice: Economic and referendum voting in Argentina, 1983-1999

Journal Article Comparative Political Studies · September 1, 2003 Are the policy failures of subnational officials reliably punished by voters, or do subnational elections instead pivot around national trends? This study attempts to shed new light on these questions by exploring subnational elections in the Argentine con ... Full text Cite

Elections and Economics in Contemporary Latin America

Chapter · 2003 Cite

The Politics of Economic Policy and Performance in Latin America

Journal Article Journal of Public Policy · 2002 Cite

The Political Economy of Decentralization in Latin America

Journal Article APSA-CP Newsletter · December 2000 Cite

The subnational politics of economic adjustment: Provincial politics and fiscal performance in Argentina

Journal Article Comparative Political Studies · January 1, 2000 Existing research has failed to address the impact of subnational politics on economic adjustment. This article attempts to fill this gap by outlining theoretical reasons for anticipating policy divergences across levels of government and by offering three ... Full text Cite

Regime sustainability in the Latin Caribbean, 1944-1994

Journal Article Journal of Developing Areas · March 1, 1999 This study attempts to compare the strength of institutional explanations for regime change and stability with other lines of analysis on the basis of data drawn from the Latin Caribbean. At the current stage of research, the pivotal theoretical question i ... Cite

Marxism and Democracy in Chile: 1932 to the Fall of Allende

Journal Article Studies in Comparative International Development · 1999 Cite

The politics of neoliberal economic reform in South America, 1980-1994

Journal Article Studies in Comparative International Development · January 1, 1998 What political conditions facilitate market-oriented reform? Prior research suggests that neoliberal policies are inherently unpopular, politically hazardous, and consequently dependent upon the existence of strong and relative autonomous governments. This ... Full text Cite

Does Democracy Promote Interstate Cooperation? Lessons from the Mercosur Region

Journal Article International Studies Quarterly · January 1, 1998 A rapidly growing body of research suggests that democracy enhances prospects for the peaceful settlement of interstate conflicts. To what extent can democracy also be linked with increased international cooperation? Building upon the literature on politic ... Full text Cite

Theoretical decay and theoretical development: The resurgence of institutional analysis

Journal Article World Politics · January 1, 1997 Full text Cite

The sustainability of political democracy lessons from South America

Journal Article Comparative Political Studies · January 1, 1996 Recent literature emphasizes the fragility of newly emerging democracies and the importance of economic performance to their survival. The analysis reevaluates this conventional wisdom and tests a theoretical alternative that takes into account the differe ... Full text Cite

Theoretical Perspectives on Democratization

Journal Article Comparative Politics · October 1995 Cite

The Political Economy of Elections in Latin America, 1980–1991.

Journal Article American Political Science Review · June 1993 The process of political democratization in Latin America during the 1980s created a rare opportunity to explore the political economy of elections outside of the North Atlantic basin. Using interrupted time-series analysis, I explore the impact of electio ... Cite

Democratization in Latin America

Chapter · 1993 Cite

The process of democratization in Latin America

Journal Article Studies In Comparative International Development · December 1, 1992 During the 1980s, Latin America experienced the longest and deepest wave of democratization in its history. The origins of this process of transformation are to be found in the interaction between domestic and international forces. At the international lev ... Full text Cite

The Process of Democratization in Latin America

Journal Article Studies in Comparative International Development · 1992 Cite

Economic Crisis and Elections in Latin America, 1982-1990

Journal Article American Political Science Review · September 1991 Cite

New Wine or Old Bottlenecks? The Study of Latin American Democracy

Journal Article Comparative Politics · July 1991 Cite

The Political Impact of Economic Crisis in Latin America in the 1980s

Journal Article American Political Science Review · January 1, 1991 Research on the political implications of economic conditions is separated into two relatively distinct bodies of literature. I bridge the theoretical gap between them by examining the effects of economic crisis on electoral outcomes in Latin America from ... Full text Cite

Debt or Democracy? The Political Impact of the Debt Crisis in Latin America

Chapter · 1990 Cite

Democracy and economic crisis: The Latin American Experience

Journal Article World Politics · January 1, 1990 Full text Cite

Military rule in Latin America

Book · December 1, 1989 The first part of the book provides a broad overview of military rule in Latin America, asking what the political and economic consequences of military rule are, and investigating the factors which shape the functioning, dynamics and outcomes of military r ... Cite

State change in Chile, 1973-1988

Journal Article Studies In Comparative International Development · September 1, 1989 All of the Southern Cone military regimes of the 1970s articulated a commitment to a neoconservative program of state change. Nowhere, however, was the commitment translated into policy with greater zeal, speed, and consistency than in Chile. What differed ... Full text Cite

Military rule in Latin America

Journal Article Military rule in Latin America · January 1, 1989 The first part of the book provides a broad overview of military rule in Latin America, asking what the political and economic consequences of military rule are, and investigating the factors which shape the functioning, dynamics and outcomes of military r ... Cite