Visiting Fellows

Spring 2024 : Changing the Rules of the Game: Labor, Law, and Citizenship in Argentina, 1973-1983

Spring 2024 : Constitutional Regressions: On Mexico's Ongoing Institutional Demolition

Spring 2024 : Examining Public Policy to Guarantee Access to High Quality Literacy Education

Academic Year 2023-2024 : How Political Competition Fuels Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: The Case of Brazil’s Bolsa Familia Program

Academic Year 2023-2024 : Left Behind or Left Ahead? Implications of Male Migration on Female Political Engagement in India

Academic Year 2023-2024 : The Politics of Childcare Policy Expansion in Central America

Academic Year 2023-2024 : Exclusionary Democracy: How Ethnoracial Hierarchies Threaten Democratic Citizenship

Fall 2023 : Subnational Drivers of Regime Change: How Subnational Regimes Influence National Democratization and Autocratization Dynamics

2023 : Consistency and Development of Human Rights Case Law: Strengthening Dialogue Between Constitutional Courts

Spring 2023 : Chilean Fulbright Chair in Democracy and Human Development

Spring 2023 : Chilean Fulbright Chair in Democracy and Human Development

Academic Year 2022-2023 : Who Governs? Effective Public Organizations in Latin America

Spring 2022-2023 : Legislative Institutions and Performance in Authoritarian Regimes

Spring 2022-2023 : The Distributive Politics of Nonstate Welfare Provision

Academic Year 2022-2023 : Early Statehood and Support for Democracy

Fall 2022-2023 : Out with the Old, in with the New? Anti-system Sentiments and the Political Representation of Marginalized Groups

Fall 2022-2023 : Preserving Studies of Popular Protest in Venezuela

Spring 1999 : Popular Protest in Neoliberal Venezuela

Academic Year 2022-2023 : Navigating Turbulent Waters: Flooding, Housing, and Accessing Justice in Brazil’s Urban Amazon

Academic Year 2022-2023 : Imagining Catholic Empires: Slavery, Freedom, and the Jesuits in Colonial Mexico

Spring 2022 : Understanding Democracy in the Inter-American Human Rights System

Academic Year 2021-2022 : Military Juntas, Civil Society Activism, and Post-Coup Political Orders

Fall 2021 : Genocidal Violence amid Mexico’s War on Drugs: A Critical Lens on Police and Criminal Brutality

Fall 2021 : Trapped by Inequality: The Politics of Redistribution in Latin America

Fall 2021 : An Interdisciplinary Approach Into the Evolution of Mexican Contemporary Democracy

Academic Year 2021-2022 : Foreign Investment, Trade, and Migration in a De-globalizing World

Academic Year 2021-2022 : Preservation of Human Rights and the Roles of the State and the International Community in Mali: Weaknesses Synergies and Prospects For Development

Spring 2021 : The Politics of Democracy. Argentina and the Atlantic World, 1860-1946

Spring 2021 : The Post-Pandemic ‘New Normal’ in Chile and Beyond

Spring 2021 : Labor Coalitions in Unequal Democracies

Fall 2020 : Cartographies of Conflict: Political Culture and Urban Protest in Santiago, Chile, 1872-1994

Academic Year 2020-2021 : Immigrants’ Access to Social Protection in Latin America

Academic Year 2020-2021 : The Unraveling of Venezuela’s Populist Experiment: 2013-2019

Spring 2005 : Why Did Venezuelan Growth Collapse?

Academic Year 2020-2021 : “Power you Can Trust”: Fractal Sovereignty in Sierra Leone

Academic Year 2020-2021 : Venezuela's Transition to Illiberalism, Vol. 1: Hugo Chávez and 21st Century Socialism

Spring 2001 : Rationality, Meaning, and Modernity: Men's Conversion to Pentecostalism in Venezuela

Spring 2020 : Christian Civic Engagement in sub-Saharan Africa? A Community-Collaborative Study of Faith- Based and Secular Civic Engagement Programs’ Impact on African Congregants’ Political and Religious Outcomes

Academic Year 2019-2020 : Intersections Between the Dirty War and the War on Drugs in Northwestern Mexico (1965-1985)

Fall 2019 : Violence against Women and Political Participation in Contexts of Criminal Violence

Academic Year 2019-2020 : Affective Materialism: Sentiments, Materialism, and the Developers of New Maturities in Botswana

Fall 2019 : The Partisan Origins of Democracy in Latin America

Academic Year 2019-2020 : The Most Vulnerable Voters: Clientelism, Vulnerability, and Voting Behavior among Slum Dwellers

Spring 2019 : Corporate Control of Governments and Democratic Backsliding: Evidence from West Africa

Spring 2019 : The Judicial Ethic and the Spirit of Constitutionalism: Law, Health and Democracy in India and South Africa

Fall 2018 : Predatory Lending and Social Movements: Brazil and US Human Underdevelopment Focusing Real Estate Debt

Academic Year 2018-2019 : The Global Health Frontier: AIDS, Pedagogy, and Moral Transformation in Botswana

Fall 2018 : Bridling Autocrats: Limiting Executive Power in Authoritarian Polities

Academic Year 2018-2019 : Disentangling the Eurozone Crisis: Government Default and Bank Credit in a Business Cycle Model

Spring 2018-2019 : The Challenges of Governing the Urban Revolution in Latin America

Academic Year 2018-2019 : Elites, Portfolio Diversification, and the Politics of Development and Redistribution

Spring 2018-2019 : Enabling More Equal Societies and Inclusive Economies by Building Power from Below and by Building Solidarity Across Organizations and Borders

Academic Year 2018-2019 : Mind the Gaps: Exploring the Interactions between Political and Economic Inequality in Latin America

Fall 2018 : Faith and Politics: Reflections of a Catholic Legislator

Spring 1999 : The Balance of a Decade (1988-–1998)ƒ

Spring 1987 : The Chilean Political Class (Joint project with Juan Gabriel Valdés)

Academic Year 2018-2019 : Women’s Responses to Urban Violence and Militarization in Caracas Barrios: Ethnography and the Forging of Memory

Academic Year 2017-2018 : African Migration and Development: Experimental Evidence on the Role of Information

Academic Year 2017-2018 : En la Boca del Lobo (In the Lion's Den): Press Freedom in Mexico

Spring 2017 : En la Boca del Lobo (In the Lion's Den): Press Freedom in Mexico

Academic Year 2017-2018 : Engaging Development and Religion: Conceptual and Methodological Groundings for Critical Global Transformations

Academic Year 2017-2018 : The Infrastructure of Authoritarianism: State-Society Relationships, Public Sector Organizations, and Regime Resilience in Putin's Russia

Academic Year 2017-2018 : Decentralization and Electoral Responsiveness in Brazil

Academic Year 2017-2018 : In the Vortex of Violence: Lynching, Extralegal Justice and the State in Post-Revolutionary Mexico

Academic Year 2017-2018 : Social Innovation and Teamwork within Organizations: Lab-in-the-Field Evidence on Cooperation and Social Recognition

Spring 2017-2018 : Bringing the Context Back In: Political Participation in New Democracies

Academic Year 2017-2018 : Blessing and Curse: Incumbency and Democratic Accountability in Latin America

Academic Year 2017-2018 : Political Accountability, Public Service Delivery, and Information Sharing: Experimental Evidence from African Countries

Fall 2017-2018 : Social Democratization and Political Democracy in Brazil (1945–1988)

Spring 2003 : Brazilian Culture and Politics: An Exercise on the History of Ideas

Academic Year 1990-1991 : Latin America: Democracy and Crisis

Academic Year 2016-2017 : Components of Health Investments in Developing Countries: Evidence from Indonesia and the Philippines

Spring 2016 : Civilian Choice in Contexts of Organized Violence

Spring 2016 : Human Dignity and Development: The Transformative Impact of Love and Truth

Spring 2016 : “God in America: A Comparative Analysis in Latin American and Latino/a Theology”

Spring 2016 : Assessing the Place of Solidarity in International Law

Fall 2016 : Human Development and Democracy: A Political Culture Approach

Academic Year 2016-2017 : The Politics of Organized Crime Regulation in Latin America

Academic Year 2016-2017 : Land, State-Building, and Political Authority in Africa

Fall 2016-2017 : The Politics of Engaged Research: Anthropology Beyond the Text

Academic Year 2016-2017 : Enfranchising Private Entrepreneurs: The Unintended Consequences of Party Building among China’s Industrialists

Spring 2016 : The Colonial Origins of (Under)development, Dictatorship and Democracy: West Africa and the West Indies in Comparative Perspective

Academic Year 2016-2017 : The Culture Wars in Another America: Evangelicals, Catholics, and Brazilian Democracy

Fall 2015 : The Andean Indigenous Program Implemented by the International Labor Organization in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia, 1950-1975

Fall 2015-2016 : Human Development and Multi-Dimensional Poverty in Southeast Asia

Academic Year 2015-2016 : Reining in the Big Men: African Executives and the Rule of Law

Spring 2015 : Shadow Banks, the IMF, and the Politics of Financial Crises in Developing Countries

Spring 2015 : Delegating Away Democracy: How Good Representation and Policy Successes Can Undermine Democratic Attitudes

Academic Year 2015-2016 : The Effects of Constitutions on Rights and Welfare

Academic Year 2014-2015 : Mapping out the Gestation and Birth of the "Canton" from Caracas to Gran Colombia, 1808-1826

Fall 2014 : Hewlett Visiting Fellow for Public Policy - Inter-American Court's Impact on Human Rights and Democracy in Latin America

Academic Year 2014-2015 : Bible and Empire: The Old Testament in the Spanish Monarchy, from Columbus to the Wars of Independence

Spring 2014 : Power, Morality, and Global Prohibition Regimes: International Cooperation in the Fight against Human Trafficking

Academic Year 2014-2015 : Fiscal Decentralization and Poverty: The Case of Mexico

Academic Year 2014-2015 : Citizens in Fear: Political Participation and Voting Behavior in the Midst of Violence

Academic Year 2014-2015 : Authoritarian Inheritance and Conservative Party-Building in Latin America

Spring 2014 : Uganda's History from the Margins

Fall 2014 : The Arab Pursuit of Happiness

Academic Year 2014-2015 : Contesting Extraction: Democracy, State-Making, and Large-Scale Mining in Ecuador

Spring 2014 : Social Movements and the Meaning of Childhood: Intergenerational Collaboration in the Peruvian Working Children’s Movement.

Fall 2014 : Democracy's Infrastructure: Neoliberalism, Techno-Politics and Citizenship after Apartheid

Academic Year 2014-2015 : The Missionary Roots of Liberal Democracy

Fall 2013 : Women's Representation and the Impact of Institutional Incentives

Academic Year 2013-2014 : Development, Authority, and Family in Northern Ghana, 1942-2012

Spring 2013 : Use of Force in International Law and Ethics: Emerging Issues

Academic Year 2013-2014 : Cooperation in Uncertainty: Migration, Ethnicity, and Community Governance in India's Urban Slums

Spring 2013 : Hewlett Visiting Fellow in Public Policy

Academic Year 2013-2014 : Subnational Civil Society and the Quality of Democracy in Argentina

Spring 2013 : Political Competition and Regime Development in Latin America

Spring 1992 : Theories of Democratization and the Costa Rican Case

Fall 2013 : How to Improve Malaria Prevention: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Fall 2013 : Europe: An Institution without a Society?

Academic Year 2013-2014 : Social Capital and Trust in Russia: Experimental Evidence Across Four Russian Regions

Fall 2013 : Europe: An Institution without a Society? +

Academic Year 2013-2014 : Sueños Salvadoreños: Struggles to Build Other Futures in El Salvador’s Migration Landscape

Academic Year 2012-2013 : Great Expectations: Democracy and its Discontents

Fall 2012 : Does Direct Democracy Alter the Status Quo? The Policy Impact of Direct Democracy Around the World (1980-2010)

Academic Year 2002-2003 : The Politics of Coalition Formation and Survival under Multiparty Presidential Regimes +

Academic Year 2001-2002 : The Politics of Coalition Formation and Survival under Multiparty Presidential Regimes

Fall 2012 : Against All Odds: Social Policy Rollbacks in Democratic Chile

Academic Year 2012-2013 : Good Morning Timbuktu! The Impact of Radio in Rural Islamic Africa

Fall 2012 : Presidential Leadership in Latin America

Academic Year 2012-2013 : Coproducing Innovation: State-Society Relations and the Production and Diffusion of Technology in Mexico

Fall 2012 : Political Machines and Networks of Brokers

Spring 2011 : Quality and Professionalization of Politicians in Latin America.

Fall 2007 : The Quality of Political Leaders in Latin America

Fall 2000 : Internal Structure and Organization of the Political Parties of Latin America

Fall 2011 : Documents of Andean History

Spring 2009 : Research relating to Quechua

Spring 2011 : Tough Competition: A Comparative Study of Electoral Violence in New Democracies,

Academic Year 2011-2012 : Neither Postsocialist Nor Transitioning: The Pressures of Living Under Uncertainty in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan,

Academic Year 2011-2012 : Varieties of Democracy

Academic Year 2011-2012 : The Politics of Inclusion: Market Reforms, Polarization, and Class Cleavages in South America, 1990-2010

Academic Year 2011-2012 : Crafting Courts in New Democracies: The Politics of Subnational Judicial Reform in Brazil and Mexico

Academic Year 2011-2012 : States in Africa: Informal Economy in Comparative Perspective in Cameroon, Senegal, and Nigeria

Fall 2011 : Partisanship, Brand Dilution, and the Breakdown of Political Parties in Latin America

Spring 2011 : State Weakness, Left Populism, and Erosion of Democracy in the Andean Region,

Fall 2001 : Decentralization and Popular Participation: On State Modernization and democracy in Latin America. The Case of Bolivia.

Fall 1994 : Democracy and Government System in Bolivia

Spring 2011 : Nothing to Gain But Your Chains: Popular Support for Authoritarianism in the Former Soviet Union

Academic Year 2011-2012 : The Cold War in Central America. New Findings with Comparative Perspectives (1944-1996)

Academic Year 2010-2011 : Gender, Local Governance, and Participatory Rural Development in Uganda

Academic Year 2010-2011 : The Politics of Equity-Enhancing Tax Reform in Latin America

Spring 2010 : Career Paths and Representatives' Motivations: A Comparison of Legislators' Behavior in Chile and Panama

Fall 2010 : Politics, Development, Social Policy, and Poverty and Inequality in Latin America

Fall 1987 : Economic Development, Social Change, and Political Contestation and Inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Spring 2010 : Citizenship Appeals: Neoliberalism, Participatory Democracy, and Gender in Porto Alegre, Brazil

Academic Year 2010-2011 : Are Redistributive Gains from the Left-turn Sustainable? Lessons from Costa Rican Social Protection,

Spring 2010 : Challenging Corporations: Religious Development Organizations and Market Opportunities for Coffee Farmers

Academic Year 2010-2011 : Subsidizing Multinational Corporations: The Real Face of the Washington Consensus,

Fall 2010 : Politics, Development, Social Policy, and Poverty and Inequality in Latin America +

Fall 1987 : Democratic Transition and Breakdown: Europe 1870–1939

Fall 2011 : Documents of Andean History

Spring 2009 : Research relating to Quechua

Academic Year 2009-2010 : Electoral Strategies, Campaign Consultants, and the Quality of Democracy in Post-Transition Countries

Spring 2009 : The Politics of Labor Regulation in Latin America

Fall 2009 : Strengthening the Rule of Law in Small, Developing Countries

Academic Year 2006-2007 : Structural Reform in Honduras

Two-year 2009-2011 : Patterns of Associational Life in Western Europe, 1870-1970: A Comparative and Historical Interpretation

Fall 2009 : From Poverty to Power

Fall 2009 : Electoral Institutions, Intra-Party Competition, and Political Conflict

Fall 2009 : Speaking of Flowers: Student Movements and Memories of 1968 in Military Brazil

Academic Year 2009-2010 : To the Left? To the Right? Explaining Populism(s) in Europe and Latin America

Fall 2009 : Lawmaking in Separation of Powers Systems

Spring 2009 : Divided We Govern: federal coalition politics in India in comparative perspective

Academic Year 2009-2010 : Making Local Democracy: Political Machines, Clientelism, and Social Networks in Latin America

Spring 2009 : The Paths of Democracy in the Andean Region: Evolution or Collapse of the Party Systems, and its Political Implications

Spring 2003 : Crisis and Collapse of Party Systems in the Andean Region

Spring 2009 : Engineerist Ideology between State and Nature in Mexico

Academic Year 2008-2009 : Development in the Kyrgyz Republic: Exchange, Communal Networks, and the Foreign Presence

Spring 2008 : Diversity and Development or Pluralism and Poverty? Government Institutions and the Economic Development of Multiethnic Societies

Spring 2008 : The Nature and Causes of Main Political Crises in Latin America Since the End of the Cold War

Spring 2008 : Consumed by Commitment: Suicide Protest in the Contentious Politics of South Asia.

Spring 2008 : Reflection on Five Years in Cuba

Academic Year 2008-2009 : Relaunching Alcantara: Space, Race, Technology, and Inequality in Brazil

Fall 2008 : The Origins of Democracy in the Americas, 1770s-1880s Working on conference

Fall 2004 : On the Colombian Establishment

Fall 2008 : Women's Representation in Latin America

Spring 2008 : Reflections on Five Years in Cuba ++

Fall 2007 : Reflections on Five Years in Cuba +

Academic Year 2008-2009 : Presidents and Party Policy in Latin America

Academic Year 2008-2009 : When does Economic Crisis Lead to Democratization?

Fall 2008 : Life Conditions of the Mexicans that live in Chicago Metropolitan Area (CMA)

Fall 2008 : Lawyers, Social Sciences, and State Modernization in 20th Century Argentina

Fall 2007 : Democratization in Latin America

Spring 2011 : Quality and Professionalization of Politicians in Latin America.

Fall 2007 : The Quality of Political Leaders in Latin America

Fall 2000 : Internal Structure and Organization of the Political Parties of Latin America

Summer 2007 : How Ongoing Violence and Terrorism Affect Democratic Political Culture: Psychological Insecurity and Political Extremism in the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict

Fall 2006 : Religion and democracy: Friends or Foes? +

Spring 2006 : Religion and democracy: Friends or Foes?

Spring 2007 : The Origins of Brazil's Lula: Building Movements in a World in Flux, Sao Paulo, 1950-1980

Fall 2007 : Conservative Turn of Korean Labor Unions after Democratization, 1987-2002

Spring 2007 : New Dynamics of Religion, Society, and Politics in Latin America

Spring 1988 : Religious Change, Popular Culture, and Politics in Latin America

Spring 2007 : Designing Cabinets: Presidents, Politics and Policymaking in Latin America

Fall 2007 : Political Conflict, Institutional Design, and Constitutional Instability in Latin America

Spring 2008 : Reflections on Five Years in Cuba ++

Fall 2007 : Reflections on Five Years in Cuba +

Fall 2006 : Democracy in Paraguay and other "failed" systems: Balance and Perspectives

Spring 1988 : Post-Stronismo and the Prospects for Democracy in Paraguay

Academic Year 2006-2007 : Law and Rights in Developing Countries: The Impact of Legal Strategies on Social and Economic Rights

Summer 2007 : How Ongoing Violence and Terrorism Affect Democratic Political Culture: Psychological Insecurity and Political Extremism in the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict

Fall 2006 : Religion and democracy: Friends or Foes? +

Spring 2006 : Religion and democracy: Friends or Foes?

Summer 2006 : Transition and Changes of State: Models Compared

Fall 2009 : Strengthening the Rule of Law in Small, Developing Countries

Academic Year 2006-2007 : Structural Reform in Honduras

Academic Year 2006-2007 : Pillars of the Monarchy or the Critical Consciousness of the Colony? Criollo and Mestizo Priest in the Colonial Peruvian Church

Spring 2006 : Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire? Post-Communist Regime Change in Russia in a Comparative Perspective

Fall 2006 : Freedom' Vs. 'Opportunity': Subjective Well-Being in the Post-Communist World

Fall 2006 : Visiting Chair in the Study of Brazilian Culture

Spring 2006 : The Dynamics of Post-communist Transformation: Varieties of Authoritarian Regimes and Paradoxes of Cron Capitalism in Russia’s Regions

Fall 2006 : Growth Determinants under Economic Transition

Spring 2005-2006 : Social Movements and Civil Society: Popular Organizations to Improve Housing and Social/Urban Conditions in the Central Area of São Paulo

Fall 2005 : Policy-Making in the Andean Region: Institutional Reforms and Public Policy Implementation: Why does it work in some countries and why not in others? The case of Chile and Peru

Spring 2005 : Cuba and the Catholic Church

Academic Year 2005-2006 : Transforming Mission: Maryknoll Catholic Missionaries, Indigenous Catechists, and Liberation Theology in Peru and Guatemala, 1943 to 2000

Fall 2005 : Defeating Dominance: Opposition Party Building and Democratization in Mexico

Fall 2005 : Rewards of Resistance: Legalizing Identity Among Descendants of Indians & Fugitive Slaves in Northeastern Brazil

Spring 2005 : The Mexican Presidency in the XXth Century: An Analysis of Power and Constraints; The Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Administration. 1964-1970

Spring 2005 : Visiting Chair in the Study of Brazilian Culture

Fall 2005 : Twenty Years of Brazilian Democracy

Academic Year 2020-2021 : The Unraveling of Venezuela’s Populist Experiment: 2013-2019

Spring 2005 : Why Did Venezuelan Growth Collapse?

Spring 2005 : Democratic Reform in the Andean Region ++

Fall 2005 : Intercultura Governance and the Quality of Democracy in Latin America

Academic Year 2005-2006 : Pluralism by Default in Belarus Moldova Russia and Ukraine: Competitive Authoritarianism After the Cold War

Spring 2004 : Civil Society, Human Rights and Democratization

Spring 2004 : Democratic Reform in the Andean Region

Fall 2004 : Democratic Reform in the Andean Region +

Spring 2004 : Partisanship and Political Protest in Brazil and Mexico

Fall 2004 : Visiting Chair in the Study of Brazilian Culture

Fall 2004 : Latin America and the Catholic Church: Coincidences and Discrepancies - 1960/2000

Fall 2004 : Identities and Representation in Latin America

Academic Year 2004-2005 : From Opposition Movement to Government Party: Growth and Transformation of the Workers’ Party in Brazil

Spring 1991 : Brazilian Armed Forces from 1945-1990: Changing Mode of Political Intervention

Spring 2004 : The Rights to Credit: Land, Wealth and Institutions in a Developing Economy, Yucatan, 1850-1900

Spring 2004 : Corporatizing China: Reinventing State Control for the Market

Spring 2004 : Governing in Globalization or How to Square the Circle

Fall 2008 : The Origins of Democracy in the Americas, 1770s-1880s Working on conference

Fall 2004 : On the Colombian Establishment

Spring 2004 : Fiscal Federalism in Mexico

Academic Year 2004-2005 : The Diffusion of Innovations: Social Policy Reform in Latin America

Spring 1991 : The Impact of Democratization on State Autonomy in Brazil

Fall 2003 : The Journalist and the Revolution

Spring 2003 : Not Just What, but When and by Whom: Decentralization Trajectories and Balance of Power in Argentina, Mexico and Colombia, 1982-1999

Fall 2003 : Revitalizing Law: An Analysis of the Role of law in Russian Enterprises

Spring 2003 : Visiting Chair in the Study of Brazilian Culture

Fall 2003 : Globalization and Policy Diffusion

Fall 2003 : Ecuador: Political Blockades and Representation

Fall 2003 : Cuba's Future Democratic Transition

Fall 2003 : Does Lootable Wealth Breed Chaos? Natural Resources and Political Order in Comparative Politics

Fall 2003 : Visiting Chair in the Study of Brazilian Culture

Spring 2009 : The Paths of Democracy in the Andean Region: Evolution or Collapse of the Party Systems, and its Political Implications

Spring 2003 : Crisis and Collapse of Party Systems in the Andean Region

Fall 2017-2018 : Social Democratization and Political Democracy in Brazil (1945–1988)

Spring 2003 : Brazilian Culture and Politics: An Exercise on the History of Ideas

Academic Year 1990-1991 : Latin America: Democracy and Crisis

Fall 2012 : Does Direct Democracy Alter the Status Quo? The Policy Impact of Direct Democracy Around the World (1980-2010)

Academic Year 2002-2003 : The Politics of Coalition Formation and Survival under Multiparty Presidential Regimes +

Academic Year 2001-2002 : The Politics of Coalition Formation and Survival under Multiparty Presidential Regimes

Fall 2002 : Visiting Chair in the Study of Brazilian Culture

Fall 2002 : Laity, Christian Democracy, and the Mexican Revolution (1900-1926)

Fall 2002 : Church-State Relations in East-Central Europe: Post-Communist Democracy-Building via Regulation, Establishment and Discrimination

Spring 2002 : Visiting Chair in the Study of Brazilian Culture

Fall 1998 : A comparative Analysis of Legislative Processes in the Southern Cone: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay

Spring 2002 : Visiting Chair in the Study of Brazilian Culture

Spring 2002 : Visiting Chair in the Study of Brazilian Culture

Spring 2002 : Divided Leviathan: Federalism and Development States in India

Spring 2002 : Justicia a Mano Propia and the Privatization of Violence in Latin America

Fall 2002 : Global Discourses on the Local Terrain: Grounding Human Rights in Chiapas

Fall 2002 : Transformation of Ownership in Transitional Society of Russia: Social-Economic Consequences and Role of Government

Fall 2002 : Title VI Visiting Professor of Sociology +

Spring 1989 : Orientation Toward Violence in Urban Marginal Social Groups

Fall 2002 : Political Parties of El Salvador

Academic Year 2020-2021 : Venezuela's Transition to Illiberalism, Vol. 1: Hugo Chávez and 21st Century Socialism

Spring 2001 : Rationality, Meaning, and Modernity: Men's Conversion to Pentecostalism in Venezuela

Fall 2012 : Does Direct Democracy Alter the Status Quo? The Policy Impact of Direct Democracy Around the World (1980-2010)

Academic Year 2002-2003 : The Politics of Coalition Formation and Survival under Multiparty Presidential Regimes +

Academic Year 2001-2002 : The Politics of Coalition Formation and Survival under Multiparty Presidential Regimes

Spring 2001 : Globalization and Social Policy Reform in Latin America

Fall 2001 : The Creation of Religion and the Roots of Modern War

Fall 2001 : Visiting Chair in the Study of Brazilian Culture

Spring 2001 : Visiting Garza Professor of Mexican Studies +

Spring 2000 : Visiting Garza Professor of Mexican Studies

Spring 2011 : State Weakness, Left Populism, and Erosion of Democracy in the Andean Region,

Fall 2001 : Decentralization and Popular Participation: On State Modernization and democracy in Latin America. The Case of Bolivia.

Fall 1994 : Democracy and Government System in Bolivia

Spring 2001 : The Mexican Congress: Change and Continuity in the Transition to Democracy

Academic Year 2001-2002 : Democracy, Human Rights, and Peace in Colombia

Fall 2001 : Cleavages and Party System in Argentina: Culture, Class and Identity

Fall 2001 : The Guatemalan Peace Process: Accomplishments and Lessons

Fall 2000 : Judicial Reform and Citizenship in Latin America

Fall 1985 : Catholic and Leftist Affiliation in Peru

Academic Year 2001-2002 : Democracy, Human Rights, and Peace in Colombia ++

Fall 2001 : Title VI Visiting Professor of Sociology

Spring 1983 : Change in the Peruvian Church, 1958–1978

Fall 2001 : Ethnic Conflict and Elite Framing in Post-Soviet Central Asia

Spring 2001 : Local Church Institutions and the Limits of State-Socialist Rule

Spring 2011 : Quality and Professionalization of Politicians in Latin America.

Fall 2007 : The Quality of Political Leaders in Latin America

Fall 2000 : Internal Structure and Organization of the Political Parties of Latin America

Fall 2000 : Tensions and Obstacles to Democracy and Consolidation in Colombia

Spring 2000 : Between Success and Failure: Labor Movement Strategies in Democratic Chile

Spring 2000 : The Separation of Party and State and the Process of Democratization in Eastern Europe

Fall 2000 : Judicial Independence and Executive Control in New Democracies

Spring 2001 : Visiting Garza Professor of Mexican Studies +

Spring 2000 : Visiting Garza Professor of Mexican Studies

Fall 2000 : Academic Intellectuals and Socio-Cultural Construction of the Campesino Problem in Mexico, 1920-1940

Fall 2001 : The Guatemalan Peace Process: Accomplishments and Lessons

Fall 2000 : Judicial Reform and Citizenship in Latin America

Fall 1985 : Catholic and Leftist Affiliation in Peru

Academic Year 2000-2001 : Democracy, Human Rights, and Peace in Colombia +

Spring 2000 : Work, Family, and Gender in Displaced Populations in Colombia

Fall 2000 : The ‘Participation’ Problem in New Democracies, book written in collaboration with Scott Mainwaring

Fall 1999 : State Making and Democracy in Latin America: Argentina, Chile, and Mexico on Historical Perspective

Fall 1999 : Reciprocity and Dynamism: State Elites and Mobilized Masses in Southern and Eastern European Transitions

Fall 1999 : Institutional Change and Democratization Processes: The Impact of Electoral Systems on the Legitimacy of Emerging Democracies

Summer 1999 : Democracy without Political Parties? Parties at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

Fall 1999 : From Laborism to Liberalism: Institutionalization and Labor-Based Party Adaptation in Argentina, 1989-97.

Fall 2022-2023 : Preserving Studies of Popular Protest in Venezuela

Spring 1999 : Popular Protest in Neoliberal Venezuela

Academic Year 1999-2000 : Communities, Shared Understandings, and Entrepreneurship in South Africa

Fall 2018 : Faith and Politics: Reflections of a Catholic Legislator

Spring 1999 : The Balance of a Decade (1988-–1998)ƒ

Spring 1987 : The Chilean Political Class (Joint project with Juan Gabriel Valdés)

Fall 1998 : The Political Transformation of Communist Systems

Fall 1998 : Revolution and Counterrevolution in the Spanish Civil War: A Comparative Analysis

Spring 2002 : Visiting Chair in the Study of Brazilian Culture

Fall 1998 : A comparative Analysis of Legislative Processes in the Southern Cone: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay

Spring 1998 : Party Ideological Change for Electoral Gains: A Comparative Study of Successor Parties in New Democracies

Fall 1998 : Mexico Redux? Currency Crises in South East Asia

Spring 1998 : Auditoría Ciudadana de la Calidad de una Democracia Assessing the Quality of Democracy: A Citizen Audit +

Fall 1998 : Variation in Legislative Entrepreneurship in Presidential Systems: Data From Beyond the US

Spring 1998 : The Challenge of Multiculturalism: Land, Ethnicity, and the Rule of Law in Latin America

Spring 1998 : The Andean Oral History Workshop: Theorizing the Indigenous Counterpublic Sphere in Bolivia

Fall 1998 : The Influence of Political Institutions and Social Structure on Electoral Behavior, Democratic Accountability and Regime Support: A Multi-level Analysis of Four New Democracies

Fall 1998 : Neomercantilism and its Legacy: The Southern Cone in a Comparative Perspective

Spring 1997 : The Decline of Public Life and Institutions: Queries about the Future of Democracy in Argentina

Academic Year 1997-1998 : The Evolution of Norms in the International Society: The Latin American Experience

Fall 1997 : Peasant Cooperation and Rural Poverty Alleviation

Fall 1997 : Analyzing Globalization: Integrating a Disparate Field

Spring 1997 : Delegative Democracy and Communication in Latin America

Fall 1997 : Uneven Development and North-South Terms of Trade

Fall 1996 : Regime Change in Presidential Democracies: The Peruvian Autogolpe in Comparative Perspective

Fall 1996 : Labor and Democratization in Europe and Latin America

Fall 1996 : Putting Concepts to Work: Applied Concept Analysis for Comparative Political Science

Fall 1987 : The State, Unions, and Parties in Latin America +

Fall 1986 : The State, Unions, and Parties in Latin America

Spring 1996 : Democracy as a Whole: Conceptual Links among the Stages of Democratic Rule

Spring 1996 : Engendering Social Policies and Structural Adjustment: The Emergency Social Investment Fund in Ecuador

Spring 1996 : The Second Vatican Council and the Church of Latin America and The Theology of Liberation

Fall 1996 : The Second Vatican Council and the Church of Latin America and The Theology of Liberation +

Fall 1995 : The Reception of the Second Vatican Council in Latin America

Spring 1996 : Human Rights in Latin America

Fall 1996 : Clashes of Class and Gender among a Sandinista Peasantry: Utopian Projects and Local Hegemonies in Nicaragua, 1979–95

Academic Year 1996 : Political Implications of Recent Socio-Religious Changes in Brazil

Spring 1996 : Decay and Emergence of a Social Order: A Study in the Post- Communist Transformation.

Spring 1996 : Democracy and Indigenous Protest in Latin America

Fall 1995 : Church-State Relations in Cuba

Spring 1995 : Poverty and the Legitimacy of Democratic Institutions: A Tale of Three Cities

Spring 1996 : The Second Vatican Council and the Church of Latin America and The Theology of Liberation

Fall 1996 : The Second Vatican Council and the Church of Latin America and The Theology of Liberation +

Fall 1995 : The Reception of the Second Vatican Council in Latin America

Fall 1995 : The Politics of Economic Reform and the Dynamics of Democratization: Market-Oriented Reforms and Democracy in Chile, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil

Spring 1995 : Systematic Violence and Gross Human Rights Violations in New Democracies: The Brazilian Case in Comparative Perspective

Spring 1995 : Arts and Democracy: The Chilean Legacy

Spring 1995 : Transitions in the Caribbean

Academic Year 1994-1995 : The Impact of Market-Oriented Reforms on the Organization and Behavior of the Industrial Bourgeoisie in Latin America.

Academic Year 1994-1995 : Violent Democratization: The Effect of Political Reform on Rural Social Conflict in Colombia

Academic Year 1994-1995 : Native Cultural Resources and Development Strategies of NGOs and Grassroots Organizations

Spring 1994 : Democracy under the Rule of Law in Post-Communist Poland

Spring 2011 : State Weakness, Left Populism, and Erosion of Democracy in the Andean Region,

Fall 2001 : Decentralization and Popular Participation: On State Modernization and democracy in Latin America. The Case of Bolivia.

Fall 1994 : Democracy and Government System in Bolivia

Spring 1994 : The Developmental State and the Disarticulation of the Bourgeoisie in Mexico and Brazil, 1938–85

Fall 1994 : The Role of the Informal Economy in the Course of Post-Communist Transformation in Eastern Europe

Fall 1993 : From the Second to the Informal Economy in Eastern Europe

Spring 1993 : Regional Economic Integration in the Western Hemisphere

Fall 1993 : Social Policies for the Urban Poor in Southern Latin America

Fall 1993 : Comparative Analysis of the Structural Adjustment and Social Policies on Urban Poverty

Fall 1993 : Democracy for Human Development in Local Geopolitical Areas

Spring 1993 : The Relationship between Social and Economic Policies: Current Reforms in Argentina

Spring 1993 : Entrepreneurial Response and Industrial Reconversion: The Case of Uruguay

Fall 1994 : The Role of the Informal Economy in the Course of Post-Communist Transformation in Eastern Europe

Fall 1993 : From the Second to the Informal Economy in Eastern Europe

Fall 1993 : Traditions and Patterns of Military Intervention in Spain

Spring 1992 : Economic Development as a Political and Tactical Struggle for Stability: An Alternative Interpretation of the Brazilian Automobile Industry

Spring 1992 : Visiting Professor of Sociology

Fall 1990 : Negotiating the Transition from State Socialism to Liberal Democracy

Fall 1992 : Comparative Study on the Formation and Functioning of the Postcommunist Power Structures

Academic Year 1992-1993 : Women, Religion, and Social Change in Brazilian Basic Christian Communities

Fall 1992 : Relationships Between Democracy, Poverty and Inequality

Spring 1992 : The Agrarian Question in the Peruvian Andes: Dynamics of the Agricultural Modernization Process

Spring 2013 : Political Competition and Regime Development in Latin America

Spring 1992 : Theories of Democratization and the Costa Rican Case

Spring 1992 : Alternative Macroeconomic Policy Responses to External Shocks: The Mexican Case

Fall 1992 : Political Culture and the Stability of Democracy in Central America: An Empirical Evaluation

Spring 1992 : Priests, Social Conflict, and Celibacy: A History of Brazil’s Seminaries, 1849 to the Present

Spring 1992 : Visiting Scholl Professor of Economics

Spring 1992 : Towards New Patterns of Political Communication: Public Sphere and Elections Campaigns in Argentina, 1983–1989

Spring 1992 : Schaefer Visiting Professor of Economics

Spring 1991 : The Local Bourgeoisie and the New Right: Recent Changes in Peruvian Politics

Academic Year 2004-2005 : From Opposition Movement to Government Party: Growth and Transformation of the Workers’ Party in Brazil

Spring 1991 : Brazilian Armed Forces from 1945-1990: Changing Mode of Political Intervention

Fall 1991 : From Peasant Mobilization to Democratic Coordination: The Development of a Social Movement in Morelos, Mexico

Fall 1991 : Requiem por Evita

Spring 1991 : Limitations of Leviathan: Social Movements and the State

Fall 1991 : Coffee and Power: The Coffee Elites of El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua

Fall 1991 : Renovation in the Revolution? Dictatorship, Democracy and the Evolution of the Left in Chile and Peru

Fall 1991 : Family Morality of the Urban Poor

Fall 1991 : Changing the State-Society Balance: The Politics of Privatization in Chile and the UK

Fall 1991 : A Social and Economic Synthesis of Post-1870 Brazilian History

Fall 1991 : A Complex Web: State-Private Sector Relations in Revolutionary Nicaragua (1979–1990)

Academic Year 2004-2005 : The Diffusion of Innovations: Social Policy Reform in Latin America

Spring 1991 : The Impact of Democratization on State Autonomy in Brazil

Spring 1990 : The Political Calculus of the Peasant: Moral and Economic Determinants of Political Action

Fall 1990 : Churches in Conflict: Catholic and Protestant Experience in Central America during the 1980s

Spring 1992 : Visiting Professor of Sociology

Fall 1990 : Negotiating the Transition from State Socialism to Liberal Democracy

Fall 1990 : Rethinking Catholicism and Politics in Latin America: The Cases of Chile and Peru

Academic Year 1990-1991 : Latin American State and Social Policies

Spring 1990 : Third World Development Theories

Spring 1989 : Third World Development Theories

Spring 1988 : Third World Development Theories

Spring 1990 : The Catholic Church and Politics in Argentina, 1920–1988

Spring 1990 : The Failure of Neoliberal Policies in Uruguay

Spring 1990 : Pragmatic Actors: The Political Attitudes and Behavior of Brazilian Industrial Elites

Fall 1990 : The Politics of Economic Adjustment in Post-Authoritarian Institutional Contexts

Fall 2017-2018 : Social Democratization and Political Democracy in Brazil (1945–1988)

Spring 2003 : Brazilian Culture and Politics: An Exercise on the History of Ideas

Academic Year 1990-1991 : Latin America: Democracy and Crisis

Fall 1989 : The Military and Democratization: Comparing South America and Southern Europe

Academic Year 1989-1990 : The Failures of Reform and Shifting Rural-Urban Dynamics in Colombia

Spring 1989 : Labor Strategies during Processes of Democratic Consolidation in the Southern Cone

Fall 1989 : Problems and Possibilities for Democracy in Peru

Spring 1989 : Ideological Innovations and Conflicts in Argentine Catholicism, 1923–1973

Spring 1990 : Third World Development Theories

Spring 1989 : Third World Development Theories

Spring 1988 : Third World Development Theories

Fall 1989 : Women, Industrialization and State Policy in the Caribbean

Fall 1989 : A Balance of Payments Model for Less Developed Countries

Fall 1989 : Crime, Crime Control, and Transition to Democracy in Brazil

Spring 1989 : Latin American Spirituality

Fall 1989 : Wage Differentials and Theories of Wage Determination in Less Developed Countries

Fall 2002 : Title VI Visiting Professor of Sociology +

Spring 1989 : Orientation Toward Violence in Urban Marginal Social Groups

Spring 1989 : Peru 1968–1987: State-Led Development, Political Transition, and the Public Policy Process +

Fall 1988 : Peru 1968–1987: State-Led Development, Political Transition, and the Public Policy Process

Fall 2006 : Democracy in Paraguay and other "failed" systems: Balance and Perspectives

Spring 1988 : Post-Stronismo and the Prospects for Democracy in Paraguay

Spring 1990 : Third World Development Theories

Spring 1989 : Third World Development Theories

Spring 1988 : Third World Development Theories

Fall 1988 : Television and the Elites in Post-Authoritarian Brazil

Two-year 1988-1990 : Moving Off-Shore: Marine Resource Based Economic Development

Spring 2007 : New Dynamics of Religion, Society, and Politics in Latin America

Spring 1988 : Religious Change, Popular Culture, and Politics in Latin America

Fall 1988 : Argentina Unions Since 1955: Power and Politicization in a Weak Party System

Fall 1988 : Chile’s Problematic Transition to Democracy: The Political Role of Economists

Fall 1988 : Democratic Transitions and the Democratization of Civil Society: Chilean Shantytown Organizations under Authoritarian Rule

Fall 1988 : Seminar: The Debt Question: Still a Pending Problem

Spring 1989 : Peru 1968–1987: State-Led Development, Political Transition, and the Public Policy Process +

Fall 1988 : Peru 1968–1987: State-Led Development, Political Transition, and the Public Policy Process

Academic Year 1988-1989 : Third World Development Theories ++

Spring 1987 : Food Security Issues in Developing Countries

Fall 1996 : Putting Concepts to Work: Applied Concept Analysis for Comparative Political Science

Fall 1987 : The State, Unions, and Parties in Latin America +

Fall 1986 : The State, Unions, and Parties in Latin America

Fall 1987 : Debt and Democracy in a Poor Oil Nation

Spring 1987 : Political Elites, Political Parties and Democratization in Brazil

Academic Year 1985-1986 : Political Elites, Popular Classes and Democratization in Brazil +

Academic Year 1984-1985 : State Capitalism and Traditional Elites in Brazil

Fall 2010 : Politics, Development, Social Policy, and Poverty and Inequality in Latin America

Fall 1987 : Economic Development, Social Change, and Political Contestation and Inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Spring 1987 : Inflation and Foreign Adjustment: A Reinterpretation of Brazilian Inflation in Recent Years

Academic Year 1986-1987 : State and Finance in Latin American Capital Accumulation. +

Summer 1987 : State and Finance in Latin American Capital Accumulation

Fall 2010 : Politics, Development, Social Policy, and Poverty and Inequality in Latin America +

Fall 1987 : Democratic Transition and Breakdown: Europe 1870–1939

Spring 1987 : The Chilean Political Class (Joint project with Ignacio Walker)

Spring 1984 : Transnationalization and Ideological Dependency: The Case of the ‘Chicago Boys’ in Chile

Fall 2018 : Faith and Politics: Reflections of a Catholic Legislator

Spring 1999 : The Balance of a Decade (1988-–1998)ƒ

Spring 1987 : The Chilean Political Class (Joint project with Juan Gabriel Valdés)

Spring 1986 : Agriculture in the National Economy: Macroeconomic Links and Policy Restrictions, Peru, 1963–1985

Spring 1986 : The Use of Video in Self-Education and Cultural Expression in the Base Communities in Latin America

Fall 1996 : Putting Concepts to Work: Applied Concept Analysis for Comparative Political Science

Fall 1987 : The State, Unions, and Parties in Latin America +

Fall 1986 : The State, Unions, and Parties in Latin America

Fall 1986 : Private Sector Associations, Political Parties, and Economic Policy in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru

1986 : Labor Markets in Latin America

Fall 1984 : Stabilization Policies and the Labor Market in Latin America

Academic Year 1983-1984 : Labor Economics in Chile

Spring 1986 : The Brazilian Cosmos: Ideology and Values in Brazil

Fall 1986 : Economic Crisis, Political Power, and Democracy in the Dominican Republic

Academic Year 1986-1987 : State and Finance in Latin American Capital Accumulation. +

Summer 1987 : State and Finance in Latin American Capital Accumulation

Fall 1986 : The Meeting of Western and Indian Culture in Peru

Academic Year 1986-1987 : Private Voluntary Organizations and International Development

Two-year 1984-1986 : Charity with Effectiveness: The Contribution of Church Agricultural Programs to Rural Development of Zaire

Spring 1986 : Brazilian State-Owned Enterprises, Foreign Indebtedness, and Democratization

Academic Year 1986-1987 : Intellectuals and the Consolidation of Democracy in Uruguay

Spring 1985 : Lay People in the Church from Catholic Action to Liberation Theology

Spring 1985 : Political Parties and Labor Movements in the Southern Cone

Fall 1985 : Political Conditions of the Democratic Transition in Brazil

Fall 1985 : Private Bank Lending and Crisis in Latin America: The Supply Side of the Story

Academic Year 1985-1986 : Politics, Power and the State in the Bolivian Revolution, 1946–64

Fall 1985 : Social Actors and Redemocratization.

Spring 1987 : Political Elites, Political Parties and Democratization in Brazil

Academic Year 1985-1986 : Political Elites, Popular Classes and Democratization in Brazil +

Academic Year 1984-1985 : State Capitalism and Traditional Elites in Brazil

Academic Year 1985-1986 : The Workers’ Party and Democratization in Brazil

Spring 1985 : Trends in Employment in Latin America