Journal articleElectoral 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 ...
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Journal articleLatin 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 ...
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Journal articleInternational 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 ...
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Journal articleComparative 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 ...
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Journal articleComparative 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 ...
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Journal articleComparative 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 ...
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Journal articleParty 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 ...
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Journal articleJournal 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 ...
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Journal articleBritish 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 ...
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Journal articleAmerican 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 " ...
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Journal articleComparative 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 ...
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Journal articleComparative 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 ...
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Journal articleJournal 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 ...
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Journal articleStudies 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 ...
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Journal articleInternational 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 ...
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Journal articleComparative 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 ...
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Journal articleAmerican 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 ...
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Journal articleStudies 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 ...
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Journal articleAmerican 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 ...
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Journal articleStudies 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 ...
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Journal articleMilitary 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 ...
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