BOOKS

Unequal Democracies: Public Policy, Responsiveness, and Redistribution in an Era of Rising Inequality
(with Jonas Pontusson)
New York: Cambridge University Press (2024). 

 

> Reviews: Perspectives on Politics, Revista SAAP, Swiss Political Science Review

SPECIAL ISSUES

Understanding Unequal Representation in Established Democracies
(with Brian Burgoon, Jonas Pontusson, and Wouter Schakel),
special issue of European Journal of Political Research 61(2) (2022).

Political Parties and Uncertainty in Developing Democracies
(with Rachel Beatty Riedl),
special issue of Comparative Political Studies 46(11) (2013).

ARTICLES
Class and inequality

"The Global Legislators Database: The Personal Backgrounds of National Legislators in the World’s Democracies"
(with Nicholas Carnes, Joshua Ferrer, Miriam Golden, Esme Lillywhite, and Eugenia Nazrullaeva),
British Journal of Political Science (forthcoming).

"Are There Social Class Gaps in Nascent Political Ambition? Survey Evidence from the Americas"
(with Nicholas Carnes),
Journal of Politics (forthcoming).

"The Economic Backgrounds of Politicians"
(with Nicholas Carnes), 
Annual Review of Political Science 26: 253-270 (2023).

Parties and partisanship

"Weak Parties and the Inequality Trap in Latin America,"
Oxford Open Economics (forthcoming).

Previously Working Paper, Latin America and Caribbean Inequality Review

Public opinion and behavior

"Corruption and Political Support: The Case of Peru’s Vacuna-gate Scandal"
(with Oscar Castorena, Adam Wolsky, and Elizabeth J. Zechmeister)
Journal of Experimental Political Science 11(1): 52-63 (2024).

 

Survey methods

"How Worried Should We Be? The Implications of Fabricated Survey Data for Political Science"
(with Oscar Castorena, Mollie J. Cohen, and Elizabeth J. Zechmeister)
International Journal of Public Opinion Research 35(2): 1-9 (2023).

 

"Online Surveys in Latin America"
(with Oscar Castorena, Maita Schade, and Elizabeth J. Zechmeister)
PS: Political Science & Politics 56(2): 273-280 (2023).

 

"Survey Mode Effects in a Developing Country: Comparing Phone and Face-to-Face Surveys in Costa Rica"
(with Adam Wolsky)
Revista Latinoamericana de Opinión Pública 11(2): 109-132 (2022).

Unequal representation

"Unequal Policy Responsiveness in Spain"
(with Alejandro Tirado Castro)
Socio-Economic Review 21(3): 1697-1720 (2023).

Violence

"Public Opinion on Lethal Violence against Women in Mexico: A Mismatch Between Preferences and Expectations of Justice"
(with Daniela T. Barba Sánchez and Elizabeth J. Zechmeister),
Revista Latinoamericana de Opinión Pública 12(1): 93-158 (2023).

BOOK CHAPTERS

"The Political Puzzle of Rising Inequality"
(with Jonas Pontusson),
in Unequal Democracies: Public Policy, Responsiveness, and Redistribution in an Era of Rising Economic Inequality, edited by Noam Lupu and Jonas Pontusson. SSRC Anxieties of Democracy Series.
New York: Cambridge University Press (2024).

 

"Working-Class Officeholding in the OECD"
(with Nicholas Carnes),
in Unequal Democracies: Public Policy, Responsiveness, and Redistribution in an Era of Rising Economic Inequality, edited by Noam Lupu and Jonas Pontusson. SSRC Anxieties of Democracy Series.
New York: Cambridge University Press (2024).

 

"What Do Voters Think About the Descriptive Underrepresentation of the Working Class?"
(with Nicholas Carnes),
in Contested Representation: Challenges, Shortcomings and Reforms, edited by Claudia Landwehr, Thomas Saalfeld, and Armin Schäfer. SSRC Anxieties of Democracy Series.
New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 165-183 (2022).

"Toward a Theory of Campaigns and Voters in Developing Democracies"
(with Virginia Oliveros and Luis Schiumerini),
in Campaigns and Voters in Developing Democracies: Argentina in Comparative Perspective, edited by Noam Lupu, Virginia Oliveros, and Luis Schiumerini.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, pp. 1-27 (2019).

"Why Does Wealth Affect Vote Choice?"
in Campaigns and Voters in Developing Democracies: Argentina in Comparative Perspective, edited by Noam Lupu, Virginia Oliveros, and Luis Schiumerini.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, pp. 72-88 (2019).

"Party Brands, Partisan Erosion, and Party Breakdown,"
in Latin American Party Systems: Institutionalization, Decay, and Collapse, edited by Scott Mainwaring.
New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 359-379 (2018).

"Mass-Elite Congruence and Representation in Argentina"
(with Zach Warner),
in Malaise in Representation in Latin American Countries: Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, edited by Alfredo Joignant, Mauricio Morales, and Claudio Fuentes.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 281-302 (2016).

"Building Party Brands in Argentina and Brazil,"
in Challenges of Party-Building in Latin America, edited by Jorge Domínguez, Steven Levitsky, Brandon Van Dyck, and James Loxton.
New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 76-99 (2016).

"Partisanship in Latin America,"
in The Latin American Voter: Pursuing Representation and Accountability in Challenging Contexts, edited by Ryan E. Carlin, Matthew M. Singer, and Elizabeth J. Zechmeister,
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, pp. 226-245 (2015).

"Political Parties and Party Systems,"
in Routledge Handbook of Comparative Political Institutions, edited by Jennifer Gandhi and Rubén Ruiz-Rufino,
London: Routledge, pp. 128-144 (2015).

PUBLICATIONS IN SPANISH

"La opinión pública y la democracia peruana en la mirada del Barómetro de las Américas" [Public Opinion and Peruvian Democracy from the Perspective of the AmericasBarometer]
(with Julio F. Carrión and Patricia Zárate),
Elecciones 23(2): 231-258 (2024).

"Nacionalización e institucionalización de partidos en la Argentina del siglo XX" [Nationalization and Party Institutionalization in Twentieth-Century Argentina],
in Sistemas de partidos en América Latina: Causas y consecuencias de su equilibrio inestable, ed. Mariano Torcal,
Buenos Aires: Anthropos/Siglo XXI, pp. 183-202 (2015).

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WORKS IN PROGRESS

"Comparing Two Common Approaches to Within-Household Sampling: A Field Experiment in Costa Rica"
(with J. Daniel Montalvo, Mitchell A. Seligson, Elizabeth J. Zechmeister, and Kirill Zhirkov).

"The Kids Are Alright: Political Generations, Authoritarian Legacies, and Democratic Attitudes in Latin America,"
Chapter prepared for Political Reaction to Changing Societies, eds. Gabriel Kessler and María Victoria Murillo.