The University of Texas at Austin
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Research
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Book
Why
Dominant Parties Lose: Mexico's
Democratization in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge
University Press, 2007).
Winner of the 2008 Best Book Award from the Comparative Democratization
Section of the American Political Science Association
Review in
Comparative Political Studies
Review in
Perspectives on Politics
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Published Articles
"Dominant Party Strategy and Democratization" American Journal of Political Science 52, 1 (January) 2008: 16–31.
"Opposition Party Strategy and Spatial Competition in Dominant Party Regimes: A Theory and the Case of Mexico" Comparative Political Studies 35, 7, (September) 2002: 755-783.
"Elite Polarization Meets Mass Moderation in Mexico's 2006 Elections" PS: Political Science and Politics 39, 5 (January 2007): 33-38 [with Kathleen Bruhn].
"Moderate Optimism: Why Electoral Conflict May Fade" Foreign Affairs en Espanol 7, 1 (2007): 132-143 [with Kathleen Bruhn].
"The Median Voter and the Plurality President in Mexico" Politica y Gobierno 14, 1, 2007: 203-213 [peer-reviewed].
“Creating Competition: Patronage Politics and the PRI’s Demise” Working Paper #345, Kellogg Institute of International Studies, University of Notre Dame, December 2007 [peer-reviewed].
“Images and Issues in
“The Absence of
Common Ground between
Candidates
and
Voters” in Jorge Domínguez, Chappell
Lawson, and Alejandro
Moreno (eds.) Consolidating Mexico’s Democracy:
The 2006 Presidential Campaign in Comparative Perspective.
“A
Resource Theory of Single Party Dominance” in Matthijs Bogaards and Françoise
Boucek (eds.) Dominant
Parties: Concepts, Measures, Cases and Comparisons.
Pablo González Casanova (series ed.), Movimientos sociales e identidades colectivas en México, (
Works under Review and in Progress
“Campaign
Persuasion and Nascent Partisanship in
“The
Latin American Left's Mandate: Free-Market Policies, Economic
Performance, and
Voting Behavior in 18 Countries” [with
“How to Win a
Mexican Election (Legally)” [with Joe Klesner and Chappell Lawson].
“Against the
Machine: Party Activists and Clientelism in
Published
Review Essays
"Mexico's New
Politics: The PAN and
Democratic Change" by David Shirk, Latin American Politics and Society 48,
1 (Spring 2006): 208-13.
“The Transformation of Comparative
Political
Parties Research: A Review of Herbert Kitschelt’s The Transformation of
European Social Democracy, with Applications to Latin America” in Política
y Gobierno, 6:1, 1999.
