The Origins and Breakdown of Democracy
“Breaking
out of the Coup Trap: Political Competition and
Military Coups in Latin America (with Aníbal Pérez-Liñán)," Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 47, No. 8 (July 2014): 1105–1129.
“The Third and Fourth Waves of Democracy,” in Jeffrey Haynes, ed., Routledge Handbook of Democratization (London: Routledge, 2012): 273-86.
“Bolivia: From Neoliberal Democracy to Plebiscitarian, Multi-Ethnic Politics,” in Howard Wiarda and Harvey Kline, eds., Latin American Politics and Development, 8th ed. (Boulder, Co: Westview Press, 2014): 271-86.
“Bolivia’s
Constitutional Breakdown,”
Journal of
Democracy, Vol. 19, No. 4 (October 2008):
110-24.
“Political Institutions, Instability, and
Democratic Performance in Latin America: A
Research Agenda,” Lateinamerika Analysen,
Vol. 7 (February 2004): 147-60.
“The
Institutional Foundations of Democratic
Cooperation in Costa Rica,”
Journal of
Latin American Studies, Vol. 28, No. 2 (May,
1996): 329-355.
“Class
Conflict, Political Crisis, and the Breakdown of
Democratic Practices in Costa Rica: Reassessing
the Origins of the 1948 Civil War,”
Journal of
Latin American Studies, Vol. 23, No. 1
(February 1991): 37-60 (A Spanish-language
translation appears in
Revista de
Historia [Heredia/San José, Costa Rica], No.
25 [January-June 1992]: 65- 96).
Electoral Fraud and
Reform
“Varying the Un-Variable: Social Structure, Electoral Formulae, and Election Quality (co-authored with Kiril Kolev),” Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 68, No. 2 (June 2015): 240-252.
“When does a Market for Votes Emerge?”
Democracy for
Sale: The Causes and
Consequences of Vote Buying, ed. by
Frederick Shaffer (Boulder, Co.: Lynne Rienner
Publishers, 2007): 33-46.
“Electoral Fraud: Causes, Types, and
Consequences,” Annual Review of Political
Science, Vol. 6 (Palo Alto, CA:
Annual Reviews, Inc., 2003): 233-56
(an updated version underwent peer review and
appeared in translation as “¿Qué es el fraude
electoral?
Su
naturaleza, sus causas y consecuencias,”
Revista
Mexicana de Sociología, Vol. 69, No 1 [January-March
2007]: 1-37).
“Can Parties Police Themselves?
Electoral Governance and Democratization,“
International Political Science Review, Vol.
23, No. 1 (January 2002): 29-46 (Reprinted in
Hugo A. Concha Cantú, ed., Sistema
representativo y democracia semidirecta: memoria
del VII Congreso Iberoamericano del Derecho
Constitucional [México, D.F.: Instituto de
Investigaciones Jurídicas, UNAM, 2002]: 383-410;
Spanish language translation published as
“¿Pueden los partidos ser juez y parte?
Gobernabilidad electoral y democratización,”
Revista del Instituto Electoral del Estado de
México: Apuntes Electorales, No. 12
[abril-junio 2003]: 128-53).
“Institutionalizing Democracy: Constraint and
Ambition in the Politics of Electoral Reform,”
Comparative Politics, Vol. 32, No. 4 (July
2000): 459-77
(For a slightly longer version and
Spanish translation, see: “Institucionalización
de la democracia: trabas y ambiciones en la
política de la reforma electoral,”
Foro
Internacional [Mexico, D.F.], Vol. 41, No. 1
[January-March 2001]: 104-36).
“Democratización y gobernabilidad electoral: el caso de Costa Rica (Iván
Molina, coautor), (Democratization and Electoral
Governability: The Case of Costa Rica),”
Política y Gobierno, Vol. IX, No. 1
(January-June 2002): 135-179.
“Political
Competition and Electoral Fraud: A Latin
American Case Study,” (Iván Molina, coauthor),
Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Autumn 1999):
199-234
(For an updated version and Spanish
translation, see: “La competencia política y el
fraude electoral: un caso latinoamericano,”
Revista Mexicana de Sociología, Vol. 61, No 9 [July-September 1999]:
103-37).
“Institutional
Change and Political Conflict: Evaluating
Alternative Explanations of Electoral Reform in
Costa Rica,”
Electoral
Studies, Vol. 14, No. 1 (March 1995): 23-45.
(This also is available as Working Paper No.
189, Helen Kellogg Institute, University of
Notre Dame, [January 1993]).
Democracy and Its
Institutions
“Authoritarian and Democratic Regimes in Central America,” in Diego Sánchez-Ancochea and Salvador Martí i Puíg, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Central American Governance (London: Routledge, 2014): 134-48.
“The Third Wave of
Democracy: Findings and Implications,”
Latin
American Research Review, Vol. 43, No. 1
(2008): 245-55.
“Mexico,”
Parties and Democracies: The KAS Democracy Report 2007, ed. by
Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (Bonn:
Bouvier Verlag, 2007): 302-17.
“Measuring Political Democracy: Case Expertise,
Data Adequacy, and Central America,” (Kirk
Bowman and James M. Mahoney, coauthors),
Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 38, No.
8 (October 2005): 939-70.
“Costa Rica: Paradise in Doubt,” Journal of
Democracy, Vol. 16, No. 3 (July 2005):
140-54 (This article led to an exchange with
former President Miguel Angel Rodríguez.
My reply, which follows his reflections,
appears as “Different Times, Different Demands,”
Journal of Democracy, Vol. 17, No. 2 (April 2006): 165-7).
“Explaining Voter Turnout
Rates in New Democracies: Guatemala,” (David L.
Wall, coauthor), Electoral Studies, Vol.
23, No. 3 (September 2004): 485-500.
"Élections, droits de
suffrage et participation électorale en Amérique
centrale, 1901-2000 (Elections, Suffrage Rights,
and Voter Turnout Rates in Central America,
1901-2000),” Problèmes d'Amérique latine,
n°54 (automne 2004): 11-32.
Political Economy
“La economía política de la desigualdad en Centroamérica (the Political Economy of Inequality in Central America),” Anuario de Estudios Centroamericanos, Vol. 38 (2012): 79-108.
"Political Competition, Constitutional Arrangements," and the Quality of Public Policies in Costa Rica," Latin American Politics and Society (2010).
“Why is Structural Reform
Stagnating in Mexico? Policy Reform Episodes
from Salinas to Fox,” unpublished paper.
“Political
Competition, Policy Making, and the Quality of
Public Policies in Costa Rica,” Working Paper,
Commission on Growth and Development, World
Bank.
“Income and Electoral
Calculations in the 2006 Presidential Elections
in Mexico,” Política y Gobierno,
forthcoming.
“Structural Reform, Democratic Governance, and
Institutional Design in Latin America,”
Comparative Politics, Vol. 39, No. 2
(January 2007): 229-48.
“Policymaking Under One-Party Hegemonic and
Divided Government in Mexico,” (
Gabriel
Negretto, Francisco Aparicio,
Benito Nacif, and Allyson Benton, coauthors),
Policymaking in Latin America:
How
Politics Shape Policies, ed. by Ernesto
Stein and Mariano Tommasi (Cambridge,
Mass.: David Rockefeller
Center
for Latin American
Studies, Harvard University/Inter-American
Development Bank, 2008): 287-328. Bibliography . For the version in Spanish, click here.
“Proceso de políticas, partidos e instituciones
en la Costa Rica democrática (Policymaking,
Parties, and Institutions in Democratic Costa
Rica),” in
Democracia fuerte ¿Alcanza? Análisis de
Gobernabilidad en Costa Rica, ed. by Miguel
Gutiérrez-Saxe and Fernando Straface
(Washington, D.C.: Inter-American Development
Bank, 2008): 159-196.
Institutions and the Environment
“Municipal Politics and Forest Governance:
Comparative Analysis of Decentralization in Bolivia and Guatemala,” (Krister Andersson and
Clark G. Gibson, coauthors), World
Development, Vol. 34, No. 3 (March 2006):
576-95.
“The Politics of Decentralizing Natural Resource
Policy,” (Krister Andersson and Clark G. Gibson,
coauthors) PS: Political Science and Politics,
vol. 37, no. 3 (August
2004): 421-6.
“The Local Politics of Decentralized
Environmental Policy in Guatemala,” (Clark Gibson,
coauthor), Journal of Environment and
Development, Vol. 12, No. 1 (March 2003):
28-49.
“Does
Privatization Protect Natural Resrouces?
Property Rights and Forests in Guatemala,” (Clark G. Gibson and
John T. Williams, coauthors),
Social
Science Quarterly, Vol. 83, No. 1 (March
2002): 206-25.