This book explores the impact of economic crises and free-market reforms on party systems
and political representation in contemporary Latin America. It explains why some patterns of …

The question of whether democratization is an elite-led process from above, or a popular
triumph from below, continues to be an area of contention among political scientists …

Building on the separation-of-powers approach in American politics, this article develops a
new micro-level account of judicial decision-making in contexts where judges face …

Transitions, defined as periods of regime change, are formative or founding moments. As
such, they set a society on a path that shapes its subsequent political development. This …

This book has been a long time coming, and I have had a lot of help along the way. I was
lucky to work with a number of highly capable and enthusiastic research assistants at …

The most commonly used weapon in the arsenal of human rights proponents is shaming the
violating government through public criticism. But does this really affect the behavior of the …

This study investigates the three main waves of political regime contention in Europe and
Latin America. Surprisingly, protest against authoritarian rule spread across countries more …

Problems of democratization, its successes, failures and future prospects, belong to the most
pressing concerns of our times. Empirical democratic theory has received many new …

The study of late-twentieth-century democratic transitions has become a major topic in
comparative politics, and one particular analytic framework, which gives primacy to elite …

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