Frances Hagopian

Michael Grace II Associate Professor of Latin American Studies
(PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986)
237 Hesburgh Center
574-631-8529
email: fhagopia@nd.edu
http://politicalscience.nd.edu/faculty/profiles/francis-hagopian/

Geographic focus: Latin America (Brazil, Southern Cone)

Thematic interests:  Democratization; political economy; religion and politics; comparative politics and political development.

Current research: Economic liberalization and political representation in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Mexico; Pluralist challenges to Catholicism in Latin America

Selected publications:Contemporary Catholicism, Religious Pluralism, and Democracy in Latin America (editor, forthcoming, University of Notre Dame Press); The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America: Advances and Setbacks (coeditor, Cambridge University Press, 2005); Traditional Politics and Regime Change in Brazil (Cambridge, 1996), which was named a Choice outstanding book in Comparative Politics; numerous articles on democratization in World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, and other journals and books, including “Derechos, representación, y la creciente calidad de la democracia en Brasil y Chile,” Política y Gobierno 12 (1) 2005, and "Political Development, Revisited," Comparative Political Studies 33(6-7), part of a special double issue, Comparative Politics in the Year 2000.

Working Papers: “Latin American Catholicism in an Age of Religious Pluralism: A Framework for Analysis,” Kellogg Institute Working Paper, forthcoming; "Negotiating Economic Transitions in Liberalizing Polities: Political Representation and Economic Reform in Latin America," Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Working Paper No. 98-5, May 1998.