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CURRICULUM VITAE
Kenneth M. Roberts, Richard J. Schwartz Professor of Government
Cornell University, 203 White Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
I. Academic Appointments and Affiliations
A. Administrative Appointments
Director, Latin American Studies Program, Cornell University, 2018-; Interim Co-Director, 2008/09
Interim Chair, Department of Government, Cornell University, 2018-19
Senior Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University, 7/12-6/15
Robert S. Harrison Director, Institute for the Social Sciences, Cornell University, 1/09-6/12
Chair, Department of Political Science, University of New Mexico, 8/01-3/05
B. Faculty and Research Appointments
Professor, 7/05-, Department of Government, Cornell University
Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Instituto Carlos III-Juan March, Madrid, Spain, May-July 2018.
Visiting Research Fellow, Centre on Social Movement Studies, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence,
Italy, Spring 2017.
Greenleaf Distinguished Visiting Chair, Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University,
Spring 2016.
Associate Professor, 8/98-7/05, Dept. of Political Science, University of New Mexico
Assistant Professor, 8/92-7/98 , Dept. of Political Science, University of New Mexico
Doctoral Fellow, 9/90-6/92, Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford University
Residential Fellow, 8/91-12/91, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame,
Visiting Research Associate, 9/89-8/90, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO),
Santiago, Chile
Graduate Fellow, 1 /89-12/89, Stanford Center for Conflict and Negotiation, Stanford University.
II. Education
Ph.D., 1992, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, Political Science.
Dissertation: "Dictatorship, Democracy, and the Evolution of the Left in Chile and Peru" (Directed by
Richard Fagen, Terry Lynn Karl, and Philippe C. Schmitter)
M.A., 1983, University of Colorado, Boulder, Political Science.
B.A., 1981, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, International Relations.
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III. Research and Publications
A. Book manuscripts:
Changing Course in Latin America: Party Systems in the Neoliberal Era. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2014. (2016 Best Book Award, Section on Comparative Democratization,
American Political Science Association).
The Resurgence of the Left in Latin America, co-edited with Steven Levitsky. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 2011.
The Diffusion of Social Movements, co-edited with Rebecca Given and Sarah Soule. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2010.
Beyond Neoliberalism? Patterns, Responses, and New Directions in Latin America and the Caribbean,
co-edited with John Burdick and Philip Oxhorn. New York: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2009.
Deepening Democracy? The Modern Left and Social Movements in Chile and Peru. Stanford, Cal.:
Stanford University Press, 1998.
B. Articles and Book Chapters
“Capitalismo y Subtipos de Populismo en Europa y América Latina,” forthcoming in
Configuraciones (Mexico), 2019. Earlier version published as “Variedades de Capitalismo
y Subtipos de Populismo: Las Bases Estructurales de la Divergencia Política,” Revista SAAP 11,
2 (November 2017): 225-240. (Argentina)
“Bipolar Disorders: Varieties of Capitalism and Populist Out-flanking on the Left and Right,” Polity,
forthcoming 2019.
“Parties and Party Systems in Latin America’s Left Turn,” forthcoming in Manuel Balan and Francoise
Montambeault, eds., What’s Left? The Promise and Reality of Inclusive Citizenship in Latin
America (South Bend, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 2019).
“Crises of Representation and Populist Challenges to Liberal Democracy.” 2019. Chinese Political
Science Review 4, 2: 188-199.
“Left, Right, and the Populist Structuring of Political Competition,” in Carlos de la Torre, Routledge
Handbook of Global Populism (London: Routledge, 2019), 149-162.
“Parties, Populism, and Democratic Decay: The United States in Comparative Perspective,” in Raul
Madrid and Kurt Weyland, eds., When Democracy Trumps Populism: Lessons from Europe and
Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
“The Trump Presidency and American Democracy: A Comparative and Historical Perspective” (co-
authored with Robert Lieberman, Suzanne Mettler, Thomas Pepinsky, and Richard Valelly),
Perspectives on Politics (First View Online, Oct. 2018).
“Democratization in Unlikely Places: Comparative Lessons from the Latin American Experience,”
Middle East Law and Governance 10 (2018): 402-419.
“Populism and Political Representation,” in Carole Lancaster and Nicolas van de Walle, eds. The Oxford
Handbook of the Politics of Development (Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 517-534.
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“Populism, Democracy, and Resistance: The United States in Comparative Perspective,” in Sidney
Tarrow and David S. Meyer, eds. Charting the Resistance: The Anti-Trump Movement in
American Politics (Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 54-72.
“Political Parties in Latin America’s Second Wave of Incorporation,” in Reshaping the Political
Arena in Latin America: From Resisting Neoliberalism to the Second Incorporation,” ed.
by Eduardo Silva and Federico (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), pp. 211-221. “The Italian Crisis in Comparative Perspective,” in Matthew Evangelista, ed. Italy from Crisis to Crisis:
Political Economy, Security, and Society in the 21st Century. London: Routledge, 2018: 235-
246.
“Populism and Political Parties,” in Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser, Paul Taggart, Paulina Ochoa Espejo,
and Pierre Ostiguy, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Populism (Oxford University Press, 2017), pp.
287-304.
“Variedades de Capitalismo y Subtipos de Populismo: Las Bases Estructurales de la Divergencia
Política,” Revista SAAP 11, 2 (November 2017): 225-240. (Argentina)
“Pitfalls and Opportunities: Lessons from the Study of Critical Junctures in Latin America.” 2017.
Qualitative and Multi-Method Research 15, 1 (Spring): 11-15.
“Party Politics in Hard Times: Comparative Perspectives on the European and Latin American Economic
Crises,” European Journal of Political Research 56 (2017): 218-233.
“Chilean Social Movements and Party Politics in Comparative Perspective: Conceptualizing Latin America’s
‘Third Generation’ of Anti-Neoliberal Protest,” in Sofia Donoso and Marisa von Bulow, eds. Social
Movements in Chile: Organization, Trajectories and Political Consequences. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2017, pp. 221-248.
“Periodization and Party System Institutionalization in Latin America: A Reply to Mainwaring.” Government
and Opposition 52, 3 (2017): 532-548.
“Putting Trump in Comparative Perspective: The Politicization of the Sociocultural Low” (co-authored with
Pierre Ostiguy). 2016. Brown Journal of World Affairs 23, 1 (Fall-Winter): 25-50.
‘(Re)Politicizing Inequalities: Movements, Parties, and Social Citizenship in Chile.” 2016. Journal of
Politics in Latin America 8, 3: 125-154.
“Democratic Divergence and Party Systems in Latin America’s Third Wave,” in Nancy Bermeo and
Deborah Yashar, eds., Parties, Movements, and Democracy in the Developing World. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2016, pp. 92-121.
“Historical Timing, Political Cleavages, and Party Building in ‘Third Wave’ Democracies: The Latin American
Experience,” 2016, in Steven Levitsky, James Loxton, Brandon van Dyck, and Jorge I. Domínguez, eds.,
Challenges of Party-Building in Latin America. Cambridge University Press, pp. 51-75.
“Populism as Epithet and Identity: The Use and Misuse of a Contested Concept.” 2016. Comparative Politics
Newsletter 26, 2 (Fall): 69-72.
“Democracy in the Developing World: Challenges of Survival and Significance.” 2016. Studies in Comparative
International Development, 51, 1: 32-49 (special issue edited by Peter Evans and Barbara Stallings, “A
Half Century of Development Studies: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Studies in Comparative
International Development”).
“Populism, Social Movements, and Popular Subjectivity.” 2015. In Donnatella Della Porta and Mario
Diani, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements (Oxford University Press), pp. 681-695.
“Populism, Political Mobilizations, and Crises of Political Representation.” 2015. In Carlos de la Torre,
ed. The Promise and Perils of Populism: Global Perspectives (University of Kentucky Press,
2015), pp. 140-158.
“Democracy, Free Markets, and the Rightist Dilemma in Latin America.” 2014. In Juan Pablo Luna and
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, eds., The Resilience of the Latin American Right. Baltimore: Johns
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Hopkins University Press, pp. 25-47.
“Substance and Methods of a Grounded Political Economy,” Latin American Politics and Society (Spring
2014), pp. 17-19 (Symposium commentary).
“Market Reform, Programmatic (De-)Alignment, and Party System Stability in Latin America,”
Comparative Political Studies 46, 11 (November 2013): 1394-1421 (on-line edition published in
2012). Spanish version published as “Reforma de mercado, (des)alineamiento programático y
estabilidad del sistema de partidos en América Latina,” América Latina Hoy: Revista de Ciencias
Sociales 64 (August 2013), pp. 163-191 (Spain). Awarded the James Caporaso Best Paper Award
from Comparative Political Studies.
“The Politics of Inequality and Redistribution in Latin America’s Post-Adjustment Era,” in Giovanni
Andrea Cornia, ed. The New Policy Model, Inequality and Poverty in Latin America (Oxford
University Press, 2013), pp. 49-69.
“Parties and Populism in Latin America,” in Carlos de la Torre and Cynthia Arnson, eds. Latin American
Populism in the Twenty-First Century (Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013), pp. 37-60.
“Michels and the Sociological Study of Party Organization: A Latin American Perspective,” in Estrato
Annali della Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, vol. 46. Florence, Italy: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2012,
pp. 153-176.
“Populism and Democracy in Venezuela under Hugo Chávez,” in Cas Mudde and Cristóbal Rovira
Kaltwasser, eds., Populism in Europe and the Americas: Threat or Corrective to Democracy?
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 136-159.
“The Politics of Declining Inequality,” LASA Forum 43, 3 (July 2012): 10-13.
“Parties, Party Systems, and Political Representation,” in Peter Kingstone and Deborah Yashar, eds.
Routledge Handbook of Latin American Politics (London: Routledge, 2012), pp. 48-60.
“Chile: The Left after Neoliberalism,” in Steven Levitsky and Kenneth M. Roberts, eds. The Resurgence
of the Latin American Left (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011), pp. 325-427.
“Conclusion: Democracy, Development, and the Left” (co-authored with Steven Levitsky), in Steven
Levitsiky and Kenneth M. Roberts, eds. The Resurgence of the Latin American Left (Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011), pp. 399-427.
“Introduction: Latin America’s Left Turn: A Framework for Analysis” (co-authored with Steven
Levitsky), in Steven Levitsiky and Kenneth M. Roberts, eds. The Resurgence of the Latin
American Left (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011), pp. 1-28.
“The Politics of Economic Crisis in Latin America” (co-authored with Erik Wibbels), Studies in
Comparative International Development 45, 4 (Dec. 2010): 383-409.
“Beyond Neoliberalism: Popular Responses to Social Change in Latin America,” in John Burdick, Philip
Oxhorn, and Kenneth M. Roberts, eds. Beyond Neoliberalism? Patterns, Responses, and New
Directions in Latin America and the Caribbean, (New York: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2009).
“The Mobilization of Opposition to Economic Liberalization,” in Margaret Levi, Simon Jackman, and
Nancy Rosenblum, eds. Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 11 (Palo Alto, Cal.: Annual
Reviews, 2008).
“¿Es Posible una Socialdemocracia en América Latina?”, Nueva Sociedad 217 (Sept.-Oct. 2008): 86-98
(Venezuela)
“Repoliticizing Latin America: The Revival of Populist and Leftist Alternatives,” Woodrow Wilson
Center Update on the Americas (November 2007): 1-11.
“The Crisis of Labor Politics in Latin America: Parties and Labor Movements during the Transition to
Neoliberalism,” International Labor and Working Class History 72 (Fall 2007): 116-133.
“La Repolitización de América Latina: Una Interpretación del Giro a la Izquierda,” Umbrales de América
del Sur 1 (April-July 2007): 65-76. (Argentina).
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“Latin America’s Populist Revival,” The SAIS Review of International Affairs 27, 1 (Winter-Spring
2007): 3-15. Reprinted as “El Resurgimiento del Populismo Latinoamericano,” in Carlos de la
Torre and Enrique Peruzzotti, eds. El Retorno del Pueblo: Populismo y Nuevas Democracias en
América Latina. Quito: FLACSO, 2008.
“Populist Mobilization, Socio-Political Conflict, and Grass-Roots Organization in Latin America,”
Comparative Politics 38, 2 (January 2006): 127-148.
“Are Parties Necessary for Democracy? Lessons from the Peruvian Experience,” in Julio Carrión, ed.,
The Fujimori Legacy (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006).
“Party System Demise and Populist Resurgence in Venezuela,” Latin American Politics and Society 45,
3 (Fall 2003): 35-57.
“Venezuela: Party System Collapse Amidst Market Restructuring,” in Carol Wise and Riordan Roett, eds.
Post-Stabilization Politics in Latin America: Competition, Transition, Collapse (Washington,
D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2003) (Spanish translation published by Nuevohacer Grupo
Editor Latinoamericano, Buenos Aires, 2004).
“Social Polarization and Populist Resurgence in Venezuela,” in Steve Ellner and Daniel Hellinger, eds.,
Venezuela’s Rupture in the Age of Globalism (Boulder, Col.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003).
Spanish version of manuscript published in Venezuela by Editorial Nueva Sociedad.
“Party-Society Linkages and the Transformation of Political Representation in Latin America,” Canadian
Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 27, 53 (2002): 9-34.
“Social Inequalities Without Class Cleavages: Party Systems and Labor Movements in Latin America’s
Neoliberal Era,” Studies in Comparative International Development (Winter 2002).
“Las Transformaciones de los Partidos y la Política en la América Latina,” in Marcelo Cavarozzi and
Juan Manuel Abal M., eds. Repensando los Partidos Políticos en América Latina (Buenos Aires,
Argentina: EUDEBA, 2002).
“La Descomposición del Sistema de Partidos en Venezuela Visto Desde un Análisis Comparativo,”
Revista Venezolana de Economía y Ciencias Sociales 7, 2 (May-August 2001): 183-200.
“Party Systems and Electoral Volatility in Latin America: A Test of Economic, Institutional, and
Structural Explanations,” American Political Science Review 93, 3 (September 1999): 575-590
(co-authored with Erik Wibbels). A translated version of this article was published in POSTData
No. 8, August 2001 (Argentina).
“Neoliberalism and Lower Class Voting Behavior in Peru,” Comparative Political Studies 31, 2 (April
1998): 217-246 (co-authored with Moises Arce).
“Labor and Capital in Latin America’s Changing Social Landscape,” Journal of Interamerican Studies and
World Affairs 40, 2 (Summer 1998): 101-116 (review article).
“Rethinking Economic Alternatives: Left Parties and the Articulation of Popular Demands in Chile and
Peru,” in Douglas A. Chalmers, Carlos Vilas, Katherine Roberts-Hite, Scott Martin, Kerianne
Piester, and Monique Segarra, eds. The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America: Rethinking
Participation and Representation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp. 313-336.
“Human Rights and United States Policy Toward Peru,” in Maxwell A. Cameron and Philip Mauceri, eds.
The Peruvian Labyrinth (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997), pp. 192-
222 (co-authored with Mark Peceny).
“Beyond Romanticism: Social Movements and the Study of Political Change in Latin America,” Latin
American Research Review 32, 3 (1997): 137-151. (review article).
“Economic Crisis and the Demise of the Legal Left in Peru,” Comparative Politics 29, 1 (October 1996):
69-92.
“From the Barricades to the Ballot Box: Redemocratization and Political Realignment in the Chilean
Left,” Politics and Society 23, 4 (December 1995): 495-519.
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“Neoliberalism and the Transformation of Populism in Latin America: The Peruvian Case,” World
Politics 48, 1 (October 1995): 82-126. Also published in New Critical Writings in Political
Sociology: Power, State, and Inequality, Vol. 1, ed. Alan Scott, Kate Nash, and Anna Marie
Smith (London: Ashgate, 2009). Translated version published as “Neoliberalismo y la
Transformación del Populismo en América Latina: El Caso de Perú,” in María Moira Mackinnon
and Mario Petrone, eds. Populismo y Neopopulismo en América Latina: El Problema de la
Cenicienta (Buenos Aires, Argentina: Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1998)
“Bullying and Bargaining: The United States, Nicaragua, and Conflict Resolution in Central America,”
International Security 15, 2 (Fall 1990): 67-102
“Democracy, Counter-Insurgency, and Human Rights: The Case of Peru,” Human Rights Quarterly
(November 1990): 529-553 (co-authored with Angela Cornell).
“Democracy and the Dependent Capitalist State in Latin America,” Monthly Review 37 (October 1985):
12-26.
“Class, State, and Revolution in Central America: El Salvador and Nicaragua Compared,” Journal of
Conflict Resolution 29 (June 1985): 163-193 (co-authored with Manus I. Midlarsky). Reprinted
as “Inequality, the State, and Revolution in Central America,” in Manus I. Midlarsky, ed.
Inequality and Contemporary Revolutions (Denver: Monograph Series in World Affairs,
University of Denver, 1986), pp. 11-33.
“Sources of Instability in Nuclear Deterrence,” Peace and Change Journal 10 (Spring 1984): 63-76.
C. Book Reviews, Research Reports, and Other Writings:
“Historical Timing and Party Building in Third Wave Democracies: The Latin American Experience,”
Working Paper #32, Center for Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley, June
2013.
“The Politics of Inequality and Redistribution in Latin America’s Post-Adjustment Era,” Working Paper
2012x (Helsinki: United Nations University-World Institute for Development Economics
Research).
Review of James Mahoney, The Legacies of Liberalism: Path Dependence and Political Regimes in
Central America, in Perspectives on Politics 1, 3 (September 2003).
Review of Larissa Adler Lomnitz and Ana Melnick, Chile’s Political Culture and Parties: An
Anthropological Explanation, in Canadian Journal of Political Science 34, 4 (October 2001).
Review of Lynne Phillips, ed., The Third Wave of Modernization in Latin America: Cultural Perspectives
on Neoliberalism, in New Mexico Historical Review (July 1999).
“Argentina and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime in Latin America,” Regional Profile Report for the
Sandia National Laboratories, October 1997.
“Renovation in the Revolution? Dictatorship, Democracy, and Political Change in the Chilean Left,”
Working Paper #203, Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre
Dame, March 1994.
C. Works in Progress
Latin America: The Politics of Inequality, book manuscript in progress for Congressional Quarterly.
“Tenuous Pacts and Multi-Party Coalitions: The Impeachment of Leftist Presidents in Paraguay and
Brazil” (co-authored with David De Micheli and José Tomas Sánchez) (under review)
“Timing, Temporal Distance, and Reactive Sequences: Reflections on Critical Junctures in Latin
America’s Political Development,” (project on “Critical Junctures and Institutional Change”
coordinated by David Collier and Gerry Munck).
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“Critical Junctures in Party System Development: Insights from Africa and Latin America” (co-authored
with Rachel Beatty Riedl) (project on “Critical Junctures and Institutional Change” coordinated
by David Collier and Gerry Munck).
“From Segmented Incorporation to Popular Inclusion: Democracy, Neoliberalism, and the Structuring of
Latin America’s ‘Inclusionary Turn’”, project on “Latin America’s Inclusionary Turn,”
coordinated by Diane Kapiszewski, Steven Levitsky, and Deborah Yashar.
“Social Movements and Party Politics: The Reciprocal Structuring of Political Representation,” Oxford
University Press project “Social Movements in Latin America,” ed. Federico Rossi.
IV. Fellowships and Grants
“Building Bridges: Integrating the Sciences, Social Sciences, and Humanities in Undergraduate Latin
American Studies,” U.S. Department of Education, Title VI Undergraduate International Studies
and Foreign Language Program, for Cornell University Latin American Studies Program, 2018-
2021 ($342,000).
“Authoritative and Contentious Knowledge: Democracy in an Era of Fake News,” Conference Grant,
Institute for the Social Sciences, Cornell University, 2018.
Fulbright Visiting Scholar Fellowship, Instituto Carlos III-Juan March, Madrid, Spain (Summer 2018)
Visiting Research Fellow, Centre on Social Movement Studies, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence,
Italy, Spring 2017.
National Science Foundation, Law and Social Sciences Program (Dissertation Research Improvement
Grant, co-PI with Whitney Taylor, 2017)
National Science Foundation (Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, co-PI with David DeMicheli,
2016).
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, “Parties, Movements, and Populism: The Political
Effects of Economic Crisis in Europe,” Seed grant, 2015-16.
National Science Foundation, Law and Social Sciences Program, “Breaking the Wall of Impunity:
Strategic Litigation and Human Rights in Mexico and Colombia,” (Dissertation Research
Improvement Grant, co-PI with Janice Gallagher), 2012.
Institute for the Social Sciences, Cornell University, Theme Project on “Contentious Knowledge: Science,
Social Science, and Social Protest,” 2006-09 ($350,000) (co-PI with Ronald Herring)
Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Series on “Social Movements and Regime Change in Latin America and
Postcommunist Eurasia,” Cornell University, 2006-08 ($120,000) (co-PI)
National Science Foundation, Law and Social Sciences Program, Dissertation Research Improvement
Grant (co-PI with Matthew Ingram, NSF Grant No. SES-0617767)
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Walter Lafeber Fellowship, Department of Government, Cornell University, 2006- ($3650) (collaboration
with Don Leonard and Melissa Mistretta)
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell University, “Assessing Latin America’s Left
Turn,” 2006 seed grant ($13,000)
Faculty Fellows-in-Service Fellowship, Cornell University Public Service Center, 2006 ($2000 for
service learning project in Nicaragua)
National Science Foundation, June 2003-February 2004 (#0317942), “The Politics of Education Reform
in Mexico,” ($10,469) (Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, co-PI with Douglas Hecock).
National Science Foundation, Feb. 1999-Jan. 2000, (SBR-9818501), “Party Systems, Economic
Change, and Electoral Volatility in Latin America” ($60,136).
NAFTA/MERCOSUR Field Research Grant, Latin American and Iberian Institute, University of New
Mexico, “Economic Reform and Party System Transformation in Chile and Argentina,” 1999
($3500).
Research Grant, Research Allocation Committee, University of New Mexico, 1998, “Structural
Adjustment and Party System Change in Venezuela” ($2928).
Field Research Grant, Latin American Institute, University of New Mexico, 1998, “Structural
Adjustment and Party System Change in Venezuela” ($900).
Research Grant, “Argentina and the Nuclear Non-proliferation Regime in Latin America,” Sandia
National Laboratories, 1997 ($10,000).
Eugene Gallegos Lectureship, University of New Mexico, 92-93, 95-96, 98-99, 02-03.
Research Grant, Research Allocation Committee, University of New Mexico, 1994, “Democracy
And the Evolution of the Left in Chile and Peru” ($2700).
Curriculum Development Grant, Center for the Study of Japanese Management and Technology,
University of New Mexico, 1993-94 ($2000).
Residential Fellowship, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, 8/91-
12/91
Mellon “New Directions” Fellowship, Stanford University, 1989-1991
Fulbright Fellow, U.S.-Chile Fulbright Foundation, 9/89-8/90
MacArthur Foundation/Stanford Center for International Security and Arms Control Doctoral
Fellowship, 1989-90
Dissertation Fellowship, Institute for the Study of World Politics, 1989-90.
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Graduate Fellow, Stanford Center for Conflict and Negotiation, Stanford University, 1/89-12/89
Doctoral Fellowship, Stanford University, 9/86-6/89
V. Awards
Best Book Award, Section on Comparative Democratization, American Political Science Association,
2016.
Richard J. Schwartz Endowed Professorship, College of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University, 2016
Greenleaf Visiting Distinguished Chair, Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University
(spring semester 2016).
James Caporaso Best Paper Award, 2014, Comparative Political Studies, for “Market Reform,
Programmatic (De-)Alignment, and Party System Stability in Latin America.”
Gunter Starkey Teaching Award, College of Arts and Sciences, University of New Mexico, 1999-2000
Regent’s Lectureship, College of Arts and Sciences, University of New Mexico, 1998-2001
Richard Goldsmith Prize for best paper on dispute resolution, Stanford Center for Conflict and
Negotiation, Stanford University, 1989
VI. Invited Presentations to Off-Campus Seminars and Workshops
“Parties, Populism, and Crises of Political Representation,” International Conference for the Study of Political
Thought, Yale University, May 10, 2019.
“Populism, Trump, and American Democracy in Comparative Perspective,” University of Kentucky Social Theory
Seminar, Lexington, April 19, 2019.
“Reassessing Latin America’s Left Turn,” sponsored by Jacobin, Conference on Historical Materialism, New York,
April 13, 2019.
“Trump, Populism and American Democracy,” Chicago Center on Democracy, University of Chicago, April 10,
2019.
“Parties, Populism, and Democratic Decay: The United States in Comparative Perspective,” Kellogg Institute of
International Studies, Notre Dame University, Nov. 29, 2018.
“Crises of Representation and Populist Challenges to Liberal Democracy,” workshop on “The Crisis of
Western/Liberal Democracy,” Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Oct. 27, 2018.
“Conceptualizing and Measuring Populism,” Workshop on the Empirical Study of Populism, Universidad de
Segovia, Segovia, Spain, June 27, 2018.
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“Populismo y Sistemas de Partidos Políticos en América Latina,” Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain, May
17, 2018.
“Populism and Party System Transformation: Latin America in Comparative Perspective,” Warsaw University
Americas Center (Poland), May 11, 2018.
“Populism and Democracy in Latin America, Europe, and the United States,” Warsaw University Americas Center
(Poland), May 11, 2018.
“Varieties of Capitalism and Subtypes of Populism: Latin America and Europe in Comparative Perspective,”
Universidad Carlos III-Instituto Juan March, Madrid, Spain, May 2, 2018.
“A Comparative Perspective on American Democracy,” Conference on “A Republic, if You Can Keep It,”
American Democracy Collaborative, Washington, D.C., April 12, 2018.
“Bipolar Disorders: Varieties of Capitalism and Subtypes of Populism in Latin America and Europe,” Comparative
Politics Workshop, Northwestern University, March 2, 1918.
“Varieties of Capitalism and Subtypes of Populism: Latin America and Europe in Comparative Perspective,” David
Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, Feb. 26, 2018.
“Bipolar Disorders: Varieties of Capitalism and Populist Outflanking on the Right and Left,” conference on “Global
Populism: Causes and Consequences,” Stanford University, Nov. 3, 2017.
“Tenuous Pacts and Multi-Party Coalitions: The Impeachment of Leftist Presidents in Paraguay and Brazil,”
workshop on “Presidential Breakdowns in Latin America,” University of Laval, Quebec City, Canada, Oct. 26,
2017.
“Parties, Populism, and Democratic Decay: The United States in Comparative Perspective,” conference on
“President Trump’s Populism: Lessons from Europe and Latin America,” University of Texas, Austin, Sept. 22,
2017.
“Coyunturas Críticas y la Transformación de los Sistemas de Partidos en América Latina,” XIII Congreso Nacional
de Ciencia Política, Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Político, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Aug. 3, 2017.
“Variedades de Capitalismo y Subtipos de Populismo: Las Bases Estructurales de la Divergencia Política,” XIII
Congreso Nacional de Ciencia Política, Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Político, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Aug. 2,
2017.
“Democratization in Unlikely Places: Lessons from the Latin American Experience,” Manuscript Development
Workshop for Middle East and North African Scholars, American University of Cairo, Cairo, Egypt (via
videoconference), June 7, 2017.
“Varieties of Capitalism and Subtypes of Populism: Structural Foundations of Political Divergence in Northern and
Southern Europe,” Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, April 28, 2017.
“Varieties of Capitalism and Subtypes of Populism: Structural Foundations of Political Divergence in Northern and
Southern Europe,” European University Institute, Florence, Italy, April 4, 2017.
“Economic Crises as Critical Junctures: The Structuring of Social Protest in Southern Europe and Latin America,”
Centre on Social Movement Studies, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, Italy, March 7, 2017.
“Latin America at the End of the Left Turn,” European University Institute, Florence, Italy, Feb. 16, 2017.
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“Partidos, Movimientos, y Populismos en la Política Contemporanea,” Centro de Ética y Democracia, Universidad
Icesi, Cali, Colombia, Oct. 28, 2016.
“Participación y Ciudadanía Ética,” Centro de Ética y Democracia, Universidad Icesi, Cali, Colombia, Oct. 26,
2016.
“(Re)Politicizing Inequality: Movements, Parties, and Social Citizenship in Chile,” Department of Political Science,
Tulane University, April 22, 2016.
“Challenges from Below to Chile’s Left Turn,” workshop on “Political Change in Latin America: Challenges to the
Left Turn,” Latin American Studies Program, Tulane University, April 12, 2016.
“(Re)Politicizing Inequality: Movements, Parties, and Social Citizenship in Chile,” workshop on “Inequality and
Representation in Chile,” Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile, March 31, 2016.
“Changing Course: Party Systems in Latin America’s Neoliberal Era,” Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile,
March 29, 2016.
“Challenges to Democracy in Latin America,” Department of Political Science, University of Richmond, Feb. 17,
2016.
“The Politics of Reducing Inequality: Brazil in Comparative Perspective,” workshop on Trajectories of Inequality
in Brazil, Brazil Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., Feb. 16, 2016.
“Student Protest, Neoliberalism, and the Crisis of Political Representation in Chile,” Center for Latin American
Studies, University of Stockholm, Sweden, December 10, 2015.
“Economic Crises, Market Austerity, and Party System Volatility: Europe and Latin America in Comparative
Perspective,” Department of Political Science, University of Stockholm, Sweden, December 9, 2015.
“Democratization in the Developing World: Challenges of Survivability and Significance,” workshop for the 50 th
anniversary of Studies in Comparative International Development, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown
University, Oct. 30, 2015.
“Comparing Movement Parties in Latin American and Southern Europe,” conference on “Movements and Parties,
Movement in Parties,” Centre on Social Movement Studies, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, Italy, Oct. 6, 2015
(via video conference).
“Paradoxes of Democracy and the Rule of Law,” lead author/team member, International Panel for Social Progress
conference in Istanbul, Turkey, August 27-29, 2015.
“La Crísis de Representación Chilena en Perspectiva Comparada,” Instituto de Ciencia Política, Universidad
Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Aug. 6, 2015.
“Challenges of Democratization: Lessons from the Latin American Experience,” conference on “Egypt’s Political
and Economic Challenges,” University of Cairo, May 11, 2015.
“The Origins of Populism and How to Study Them,” Keynote Address, conference on “Solving the Puzzles of
Populism,” Brighan Young Unviersity London Center, London, April 30, 2015.
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“The Analysis of Authoritarian Successor Parties,” conference on “Life After Dictatorship: Authoritarian Successor
Parties Worldwide, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Notre Dame University, April 17, 2015 (discussant).
“Changing Course: Party Systems in Latin America’s Neoliberal Era,” Korbel School of International Studies,
University of Denver, March 30, 2015.
Gary Wynia Memorial Lecture, Carleton University, “Market Reform and Party System Volatility in Latin
America,” Feb. 27, 2015.
“Changing Course in Latin America: Party Systems in the Neoliberal Era,” John F. Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University, Feb. 13, 2015.
“El Nuevo Populismo en América Latina,” Foro Internacional de Análisis Político, FUSADES, San Salvador, El
Salvador, April 23, 2014.
“The Politics of Redistribution in Latin America,” Latin American Studies Program, Tulane University, March 30,
2014.
“Why Parties Aren’t Popular: Political Alignments in Latin America’s Neoliberal Era,” Latino and Latin American
Studies, NYU, March 7, 2014.
“Market Reform, Programmatic (De)-Alignment, and Party System Stability in Latin America,” School of
Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University, March 6, 2014.
“Changing Course: Party Systems in Latin America’s Neoliberal Era,” Department of Political Science, Columbia
University, Dec. 4, 2013.
“Party System Change in Latin America’s Neoliberal Critical Junctures,” University of North Carolina/Duke
University Consortium for Latin American Studies, Chapel Hill, Nov. 11, 2013.
“Party System Change in Latin America’s Neoliberal Critical Junctures,” Department of Political Science and
Center for Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Feb. 28, 2013.
“Party Systems and Political Cleavages in Latin America’s Third Wave Democracies,” workshop on “Parties and
Democracy,” University of Chicago, Feb. 15, 2013.
“Market Reform, Programmatic (De)-Alignment, and Party System Stability in Latin America,” Department of
Political Science, Arizona State University, January 25, 2013.
“Historical Timing, Political Cleavages, and Party Building in ‘Third Wave’ Democracies: The Latin American Experience,”
paper presented at a workshop on “Party Building in Latin America,” Harvard University, November 15-16, 2012.
“Party Systems and the Shaping of Latin America’s Second Wave of Incorporation,” paper prepared for the
workshop “From Resistance to Neoliberalism to the Second Wave of Incorporation: Comparative Perspectives on
Reshaping the Political Arena in Latin America,” Tulane University, October 25-26, 2012.
“Populism and Democracy in the Developing World,” conference on “Power to the People: Populism and Social
Movements in Contemporary Politics,” International Studies Program, University of Kentucky, March 30, 2012.
“Party System Transformation in Latin America’s Neoliberal Critical Junctures,” Latin American Studies Program,
Tulane University, March 8, 2012.
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“Market Reform, Programmatic (De)-Alignment, and Party System Stability in Latin America,” Department of
Political Science, George Washington University, January 19, 2012.
“Party System Transformation in Latin America’s Neoliberal Era,” workshop at the Universidad Católica, Santiago,
Chile, December 3, 2011.
“Partidos Políticos y la Crísis de la Representación Democrática,” conference on “Movilización Social y
Democracia: Es Necesario Cambiar el Modelo?”, United Nations Development Program and Universidad de Chile,
Santiago, Chile, December 2, 2011.
“Party Organization and Social Linkages: The Legacy of Michels from a Latin American Perspective,” conference
on “La Sociologia del Partito Politico 100 Anni Dopo,” Fondazione Luigi Einaudi/Dipartimento di Studi Politici,
Universita di Turino, Turin, Italy, November 4, 2011.
“The Politics of Inequality and Redistribution in Latin America’s Post-Adjustment Era,” conference on “The New
Policy Model, Inequality and Poverty in Latin America,” U.N. University-WIDER/Universidad de Buenos Aires,
Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sept. 2, 2011.
“Democracy, Market Reform and the Conservative Party Dilemma in Latin America,” workshop on “Bringing the
Right Back In: The Right and Democracy in Contemporary Latin America,” Social Science Research Center, Berlin,
Germany, July 29, 2011.
“Market Reform, Programmatic (De)-Alignment, and Party System Stability in Latin America,” Princeton
University Workshop on Political Parties in Developing Region, May 13, 2011.
“Political Change in Modern Latin America,” Keynote Address, Povolny Lecture Series in International Studies,
Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, April 8, 2011.
“Partidos Políticos y la Crísis de la Representación Democrática en América Latina,” Fundación Salvadoreña para el
Desarrollo Económico y Social, San Salvador, El Salvador, March 12, 2011.
“The Politics of Inequality in Latin America,” paper presented at the UN-WIDER workshop on The New Policy
Model, Inequality, and Poverty in Latin America, United Nations, New York, Dec. 7-8, 2010.
“Populism and Democracy in Chavez’s Venezuela,” paper presented at the workshop on Populism in Europe and
the Americas: Threat or Corrective to Democracy?, Social Science Research Center WZB, Berlin, Aug. 5-6, 2010.
“Market Reform and Party System Realignment in Latin America,” paper presented at the workshop on Political
Parties in the Developing World, Princeton University, April 30-May 1, 2010.
“Latin America’s Changing Political Landscape: Implications for U.S.-Latin American Relations,” Cornell Law
School Latin America Alumni Reunion, Miami, April 16, 2010.
“Recent Developments in U.S.-Latin American Relations,” Tompkins County Medical Association, January 20,
2010.
“Party System Realignment following Market Liberalization in Latin America,” University of North Carolina-Duke
University Latin American Consortium, Chapel Hill, NC, November 19, 2009
“Parties and Populism in Latin America,” Latin America Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars, Washington, D.C., Oct. 8, 2009.
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“Institutional Legacies of Neoliberal Critical Junctures in Latin America,” Latin American Studies Program,
University of Texas, Austin, March 19, 2009.
“The New Left in Latin America,” Latin American Studies Seminar Series, University of New Mexico, Feb. 24,
2009
“Latin America’s Left Turn and U.S. Foreign Policy,” Albuquerque Council on Foreign Relations, Albuquerque,
NM, Feb. 24, 2009
“Explaining Variation in Latin America’s Left Turn,” David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard
University, Nov. 18, 2008
“The New Left in Latin America,” Hamilton College Lecture Series, Oct. 28, 2008
“Explaining Electoral Volatility in Latin American Party Systems,” Political Parties workshop, Princeton University, Sept.
26, 2008.
“Is the Use of Torture Ever Justified to Protect American Civil Liberties?”, annual lecture of the Berger International Legal
Studies Program and the Briggs Society for International Law, Cornell University Law School, April 15, 2008.
“Parties, Movements, and Populism in the Latin American Left,” workshop on “Latin America’s Left Turn,” Weatherhead
Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, April 4-5, 2008
“Popular Participation in Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution,” workshop on “The Popular Sectors and the State in
Chávez’s Venezuela,” Yale University, March 6-7, 2008
“Party Systems in Latin America’s Neoliberal Critical Juncture,” Comparative Politics Colloquium, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, Feb. 22, 2008
“Inequality and Popular Participation,” Conference on “Inequality in Latin America: Politics and Policy,” Watson
Institute for International Studies, Brown University, Oct. 3, 2007
“Neoliberalism and Social Protest in Latin America,” Institute for the Social Sciences, Cornell University, Sept. 4,
2007
“Repensando la Representación Política,” Workshop on “Las Nuevas Formas de Representación Política,”
Universidad Católica, Lima, Peru, August 16, 2007
“Los Nuevos Movimientos Sociales en América Latina,” conference on “El Resurgimiento de la Izquierda
Latinoamericana,” Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile, May 15, 2007.
“Assessing Democratic Performance in Latin America,” Kellogg Institute for International Studies Advisory Board,
University of Notre Dame, April 13, 2007.
“Rethinking Populism and Social Democracy in Latin America,” conference on “Amérique Latine: Nouvelles
Gauches? Nouvelles Démocracies?”, University of Montreal, March 29-30, 2007.
“Repoliticizing Inequality in Latin America,” conference on “Globalization and Inequality in Latin America,”
University of Pittsburgh, March 23-24, 2007.
“Latin America’s Neoliberal Critical Juncture,” Institute for Latin American Studies, Columbia University, Feb. 2,
2007.
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“Explaining Latin America’s Left Turn,” David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University,
Nov. 7, 2006.
“Populism and the New Left in Latin America,” workshop on “The New Left and Democratic Governance in Latin
America,” Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., Nov. 6, 2006.
"Sistemas de Partidos y la Crisis en la Representacion Politica en America Latina" 3-day workshop, Universidad de
la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay, Aug. 1-3, 2006.
“Latin America after the Washington Consensus,” presentation for the “New Bandung” seminar series, State
University of New York at Binghamton, May 4, 2006.
“Party Systems and Political Change in Latin America,” Maxwell School of International Affairs, Syracuse
University on March 22, 2006.
“Assessing Latin America’s Left Turn,” Princeton University Latin American Studies workshop on "Elections in
Latin America: Is the Region Turning Left?", March 9, 2006.
“Nicaragua: Revolution and Post-Revolution,” Bridges to Community Student Service Project, Cornell University,
Feb. 14, 2006
“Changing Course: Parties, Populism, and Political Representation in Latin America’s Neoliberal Era,”
Comparative Politics Series workshop, Cambridge University Press, University of Washington, Seattle, Nov. 2-3,
2005.
“Interpreting Latin America’s Left Turn,” Latin American Studies Program, Cornell University, Sept. 7, 2005.
“Latin America’s Neoliberal Critical Juncture,” Comparative Politics colloquium series, Department of Political
Science, Yale University, Oct. 4, 2005.
“Party Systems in Latin America’s Neoliberal Critical Juncture,” Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown
University, April 8, 2005.
“Labor Movements, Party Systems, and Electoral Volatility in Latin America,” paper presented at the conference on
“Labor and Globalization: Assessing the State of the Field and Proposing a New Research Agenda,” Labor Studies
Section of the Latin American Studies Association, Las Vegas, NV, October 8, 2004.
“Party System Transformation in Latin America’s Neoliberal Era,” presentation for the University of New
Mexico/New Mexico State University Latin American Consortium, Albuquerque, March 5, 2004.
“Latin American Perspectives Toward the United States after 9/11,” lecture for the International Studies Institute,
University of New Mexico, March 3, 2004.
“Economic Adjustment and Political Representation in Latin America,” Duke University/University of North
Carolina workshop on “Politics and Economic Reform,” Raleigh, NC, April 25-26, 2003.
“International Public Opinion Towards the United States,” KUNM radio, February 20, 2003.
“The Rise of the New Left in Latin America,” Chicago Public Radio, November 4, 2002.
“Authoritarian Rulers in Democratic Regimes,” Chicago Public Radio, July 31, 2002.
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“Social Inequalities without Class Cleavages in Latin America’s Neoliberal Era,” University of Miami, April 12,
2002.
“Are Parties Necessary for Democracy? Lessons from Fujimori’s Peru,” University of Delaware/University of
Miami North-South Center, Washington, D.C., March 12, 2002.
“Party System Volatility and Adaptation in Latin America’s Neoliberal Era,” Harvard University,
Center for Latin American Studies, March 5, 2002.
“Globalization and Its Discontents,” College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 18, 2001.
“Peruvian Politics in the Fujimori Era,” U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C., June 8, 2001.
“Social Inequalities without Class Cleavages in Latin America’s Neoliberal Era,” Vanderbilt University, April 13,
2001
“Labor Movements and Political Parties in Latin America’s Neoliberal Era,” University of Arizona conference on
Labor in Latin America, March 24, 2001
“Labor in a Global Economy,” KUNM Radio, January 26, 2001.
“Party-Society Linkages and the Transformation of Political Representation in Latin America,” conference on
“Threats to Democracy in Latin America,” University of British Columbia, Vancouver, November 3-4, 2000.
“Populism and Democracy in Latin America,” conference on “Challenges to Democracy in the Americas,” Carter
Center, Atlanta, October 16-18, 2000.
“Failed Reform and Party System Decay: Explaining the Venezuelan Anomaly,” workshop on “Post-Reform
Elections in Latin America: Bringing Politics Back In,” School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins
University, Washington, D.C., June 23, 2000.
“El Populismo en la Epoca Neoliberal,” Universididad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 29, 1999.
“Partidos Políticos y la Volatilidad Electoral en América Latina,” Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires,
Argentina, May 28, 1999.
“Class Inequalities Without Class Cleavages: Parties, Labor Movements, and Political Representation in Latin
America’s Neoliberal Era,” paper presented at the Workshop on Organized Labor and Party Politics, Berkeley-
Harvard Center for Labor Politics, Berkeley, Cal., May 1, 1999.
Presentation on Chilean domestic politics for the forum “Pinochet: Torture, Genocide, and Extradition,” H. Vearle
Payne Inn of Court, Albuquerque, NM, Feb. 17, 1999.
“Party Systems and Electoral Volatility in Latin America.” Presented for the Student Organization for Latin
American Studies, University of New Mexico, October 30, 1998.
“Overview of Latin America.” Presented for the Albuquerque Committee on Foreign Relations, October 15, 1998.
“The Informalization of Politics in Latin America,” University of North Carolina/Duke University Center for Latin
American Studies, February 21, 1998.
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“Rethinking Economic Alternatives: Left Parties and the Articulation of Popular Demands in Chile and Peru,”
Columbia University Conference on Inequality and New Forms of Popular Representation in Latin America, New
York, March 3-5, 1994.
“Neoliberalism and the Transformation of Populism in Peru.” Presented for the Student Organization for Latin
American Studies, University of New Mexico, October 7, 1994.
“In Search of a New Identity: Dictatorship, Democracy, and Political Change in the Chilean Left,” presented before
the Student Organization for Latin American Studies, University of New Mexico, September 11, 1992.
VII. Presentations at Professional Meetings and Conferences
“Latin America’s Second Phase of Mass Incorporation: New Patterns of Participation and Representation,”
sponsored by Latin American Politics and Society, Latin American Studies Association Annual Congress, May 25,
2019.
“Parties and Crises of Representation in Latin America,” International Panel on Social Progress, Latin American
Studies Association Annual Congress, Boston, MA, May 24, 2019.
“Bipolar Disorders: Populisms of the Left and Right,” American Political Science Association, Boston, Sept. 1,
2018.
“Parties, Populism, and Democratic Decay: The United States in Comparative Perspective,” American Political
Science Association, Boston, Aug. 31, 2018.
“Parties, Populism, and Democratic Decay: Latin America and the United States in Comparative Perspective,”
International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Barcelona, Spain, May 25, 2018.
“Democratic Divergence and Party Systems in Latin America’s Third Wave,” American Political Science
Association, Sept. 1, 2017.
“Critical Junctures in Party System Development: Insights from Africa and Latin America” (co-authored with
Rachel Beatty Riedl), American Political Science Association, Aug. 31, 2017.
“The Challenge of Identifying What’s Critical In a Juncture,” American Political Science Association, Sept. 1, 2016.
“Roundtable on Major Works in Latin American Political Economy,” International Congress of the Latin American
Studies Association, New York, NY, May 26, 2016.
“Author Meets Critics: Roundtable on Kenneth Roberts’ Changing Course: Party Systems in Latin America’s
Neoliberal Era,” International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto, May 28,
2015.
“Historical Timing, Political Cleavages, and Party Building in Latin America,” American Political Science
Association, Washington, D.C., Aug. 28, 2014.
“Student Protest and Party System Alignments in Chile,” International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association, Chicago, May 22, 2014.
“Democratic Divergence in Latin America’s Third Wave,” paper presented at the annual conference of the
American Political Science Association, Aug. 30, 2013.
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“Market Reform and Programmatic (De-)Alignment in Latin America,” paper presented at the annual conference of
the Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, May 24, 2012.
“Social Protest in Latin America’s Neoliberal Era: An Exploration of Economic and Political Determinants” (with
Moises Arce and Roberta Rice), International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Montreal, Sept.
6-8, 2007
“Left, Right, and the Legacies of Neoliberal Critical Junctures,” paper presented at the American Political Science
Association, Philadelphia, Aug. 30-Sept. 2, 2006.
“Latin America’s Conservative Party Deficit,” paper presented at the annual conference of the Latin American
Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 15-18, 2006.
“The Lagos Government and the Chilean Left: Between Neoliberalism and Reform,” paper presented at the annual
meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Sept. 1-4, 2004.
“Labor Movements, Party Systems, and Electoral Volatility in Latin America,” paper presented at the XXV
International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Las Vegas, NV, October 9-11, 2004.
“Why Not Parties: The Logic of Anti-Party and Independent Political Entrepreneurship,” paper presented at the
annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, Aug. 28-30, 2003.
“Populist Mobilization and Political Organization in Latin America: Historical and Contemporary Variations,”
presented at the XXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Dallas, March 27-29,
2003.
“Failed Reform and Party System Demise: Explaining the Venezuelan Anomaly,” presented at the annual meeting
of the American Political Science Association, Boston, Aug. 28-30, 2002.
“Political Cleavages, Party-Society Linkages, and the Transformation of Political Representation in Latin
America,” presented at the XXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington,
D.C., September 6-8, 2001.
“Failed Reform and Party System Demise: Explaining the Venezuelan Anomaly,” paper presented at the 2001
Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, Aug. 30-Sept. 2, 2001.
“The Politics of Economic Crisis and Policy Change in Latin America,” (co-authored with Erik Wibbels), paper
presented at the 2000 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., August 31-
September 3, 2000.
“Social Inequalities Without Class Cleavages? Party Systems, Labor Movements, and Political Representation in
the Neoliberal Era,” paper presented at the 2000 meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Miami, March
16-18, 2000.
“The Chilean Party System and Social Cleavages in the Neoliberal Era,” paper presented at the XXI International
Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, Sept. 24-26, 1998.
“Party Systems and Electoral Volatility in Latin America: A Test of Economic, Institutional, and Structural
Explanations,” (co-authored with Erik Wibbels), paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political
Science Association, Washington, D.C., August 28-31, 1997.
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“Structural Adjustment and the Adaptation or Breakdown of Party Systems: A Comparison of Chile, Argentina,
Peru and Venezuela,” paper presented at the XX Annual Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association,
Guadalajara, Mexico, April 17-19, 1997.
“Class Voting Without Class Actors? Neoliberalism and Lower Class Political Behavior in Peru,” (co-authored with
Moises Arce), paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco,
August 29-Sept. 1, 1996.
“The Neoliberal `Critical Junctures and the Transformation of Party Systems: A Comparison of Peru and Chile,”
paper presented at the meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., Sept. 28-30, 1995.
“The Varied Meanings of the Allende and Pinochet Years for Chilean Party Activists,” paper presented at the
Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, January 5-8, 1995.
“Neoliberalism and the Transformation of Populism in Latin America: The Peruvian Case,” paper presented at the
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, New York, September 1-4, 1994.
“Rethinking Economic Alternatives: Left Parties and the Articulation of Popular Demands in Chile and Peru,”
paper presented at the meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Atlanta, March 10-12, 1994.
“The Role of the Left in Latin American Democracies: The Search For a New Identity,” paper presented at the
meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Los Angeles, Sept. 27, 1992.
“Renovation in the Revolution? Dictatorship, Democracy, and the Evolution of the Left in Chile,” paper presented
at the meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., April 4, 1991.
“Democracy and the Dependent Capitalist State in Latin America,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the
Florida Political Science Association, Sarasota, Fla., April 11, 1986.
VIII. Courses Taught:
Graduate Seminars:
Parties, Movements, and Populism
Contentious Politics and Social Movements
Comparative Political Economy
Political Economy of Development
Parties and Political Representation
The Comparative Method in International and Comparative Politics
Proseminar in Comparative Politics
Proseminar in Latin America Politics
Social Movements in Latin America
Neoliberalism and Political Representation in Latin America
The Modern Left in Europe and Latin America
Democracy and Market Reform in Latin America
Political Representation in Latin America
Undergraduate Courses:
Populism, Democracy, and Authoritarianism
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Social Movements in Latin America
Comparative Politics of Latin America
Political Economy of Latin America
Democracy in Latin America
Political Development in Latin America
Comparative Politics
Mexican Politics
IX. Student Advisement and Mentoring
1. External Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Fellows Supervised
Enrico Padoan, Universidad de Chile, Latin American Studies Fellow, Spring 2018
Maria-Therese Gustaffson, University of Stockholm, Sweden, Fall 2014
Javier Osorio, University of Notre Dame, 2013-14
Hernan Gómez Bruera, Sussex University, Great Britain, Fall 2011
2. Junior Scholar Book Workshops
Gustavo Flores-Macías, Cornell University, December 2017.
Virginia Oliveros, Tulane University, April 2016
Santiago Anria, Univesity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2016
Lindsay Mayka, University of California, Berkeley/Harvard University, 2015
Samuel Handlin, University of California, Berkeley/University of Utah, 2015
Jessica Rich, University of California, Berkeley 2014
Erica Simmons, University of Chicago/University of Wisconsin, 2014
Daniela Campello, Princeton University, 2012
3. Ph.D. Dissertation Advisement
José Sánchez, Committee Chair, in progress.
Pauliina Patana, Committee Chair, in progress.
María Jimena Valdez, Committee Chair, in progress.
Simon Velaszuez, Committee Chair, in progress.
Whitney Taylor, Committee Co-Chair, in progress
David De Micheli, Committee Chair, in progress.
Mariel Barnes, Committee member, in progress.
Hoa Duong, Committee member, in progress
Joseph Florence, Committee member, in progress.
Karla Pena, Committee member, in progress (Development Sociology)
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Joe Baxler, Committee member, in progress (Industrial and Labor Relations)
Simon Newman, Committee member, in progress (University of Michigan, Sociology)
Mariana Giusti-Rodriguez, Committee Chair, 2018.
Sebastian Dettman, committee member, 2018.
Elizabeth Plantan, Committee Member, 2018.
Andrea Restrepo-Mieth, Committee member, 2018 (City and Regional Planning)
Enrico Padoan, Committee member, 2018 (Universidad Católica, Chile)
Daniela Chironi, Committee member, 2018 (European University Institute)
Thibaud Macesse, Committee member, 2018.
Caitlin Mastroe, Committee member, 2018.
Mariano Sanchez Talanquer, Committee Chair, 2017.
Steffen Bling, Committee Chair, 2017
Catherine Reyes-Householder, Committee Chair, 2016.
Martha Wilfahrt, Committee member, 2015.
Diego Fossati, Cornell, committee member, 2015.
Janice Gallagher, Cornell, Committee Co-Chair (2014).
Berk Esen, Cornell, Committee Chair (2014).
James Loxton, committee member (2014) (Harvard University).
Don Leonard, Cornell, Committee Chair (2013)
Noelle Brigden (Committee member) (2013)
Kristin McKie, Committee member, 2011.
Karrie Koesel, Committee member, 2010
Danielle Resnick, Committee member, 2010.
Ameya Balsekar, Committee member, 2010.
Tariq Thachil, Committee member, 2010.
Jaimie Bleck, Committee member, 2011.
Yuriko Takahashi, Committee Chair, 2009
Kim Nolan, UNM, Political Science, Committee Co-Chair, 2009
Matt Ingram, UNM, Political Science, Committee Co-Chair, 2009
Douglas Hecock, Political Science, Committee Chair, 2006
Roberta Rice, Political Science, 2006, Committee Chair
Eric Jepsen, Political Science, Committee member, 2005
Christina Schatzman, Committee member, 2005
Jeffrey Drope, Committee member, 2004
Mary Bellman, 2003, Committee Chair
Francois Gelineau, Political Science, 2002, Committee member.
Randy Parish, Political Science, 2002, Committee member.
Judy Palier, Political Science, 2001, Committee Chair
Erik Wibbels, Political Science, 2000, Committee member
Caroline Beer, Political Science, 2000, Committee member.
Moises Arce, Political Science, 2000, Committee member.
Darryl Dieter, Political Science, 1999, Committee Chair
David Broudy, Sociology, 1997, Committee member
Andrés Valdez, Latin American Studies, 1997, Committee member
Ximena Sosa-Buchholz, History, 1996, Committee member
Sung-Kwon Cho, Political Science, 1995, Committee member
M.A. Thesis Advisement
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Rodrigo Rodríguez, CIPA, 2012
Kunbi Adefule, CIPA, 2012
Lorraine Makone, Africana Studies, 20010
Susanna Schaller, Latin American Studies/Community and Regional Planning, 1998
Rodolfo Monge-Oviedo, Latin American Studies/Community and Regional Planning, 1997
Elizabeth Isaacs, Latin American Studies/Community and Regional Planning, 1997
Colin Forsyth, Latin American Studies, 1997
Michael Oswald, Latin American Studies, 1995
Steven Kent Smith, Latin American Studies, 1995 (Committee Chair)
David Parnell Hinkley, Latin American Studies, 1995
Paul Oeland, Latin American Studies, 1995 (Committee Chair)
Glenn Pearce-Oroz, Latin American Studies/Community and Regional Planning, 1994
Mindy Young, Latin American Studies, 1994 (Committee Chair)
Gil Friedman, Political Science, 1993
B.A. Honors Advisement
Anthony Gullo, Government, 2017-18
Beatriz Barros, 2017
Troy Lecaire, 2017
Nicole Collins, Government, 2013 (Committee Chair)
Elena Moreno, Government, 2011 (Committee Chair)
Katie Meyers, Government, 2009-10 (Committee Chair)
Kim Brody, Government, 2009-10 (Committee Chair)
Emma Banks, College Scholar, 2008-10 (Committee Chair)
Roxie Larain, Government, 2008-09 (Committee Chair)
Tim Krueger, Government, 2007-08 (Committee Chair)
Andrea Nil, Government 2005-06 (Committee Chair)
Elizabeth Paci, Government 2005-06 (Committee Chair)
Angela Alberti, Political Science, 1997
Heidi Pircher, Political Science, 1997 (Committee Chair)
Ernestina Cruz, Political Science, 1996
Harold Henthorn, Political Science, 1994 (Committee Chair)
B.A. Mellon Fellows Advisement
Alexander Lopez, Government 2006-08
Donald Deere, Government 2005-07
X. University and Professional Service
Editorial Boards:
World Politics, 2013-
Latin American Politics and Society, 2001-
Política y Gobierno, 2019- (Mexico)
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Populism, 2018-
Latin American Research Review, 2004-09
Professional Associations:
Best Book Award Committee Chair, Comparative Democratization Section, American Political Science
Association, 2017.
Program Co-Chair, Latin American Studies Association Annual Conference, 2012-13
Best Paper Award Committee, Comparative Politics Section, American Political Science Association,
2008
Juan Linz Dissertation Award Committee, Comparative Democratization section, American Political
Science Association, 2007.
Section Track Chair, Democracy section, Latin American Studies Association, 2006-07.
Chair, Woodrow Wilson Award Committee for the best book in Political Science, American Political
Science Association, 2004-05.
Burdette Award Selection Committee for best article in Comparative Politics, Comparative Politics
Section, American Political Science Association, 2001-2002
Bryce Wood Book Award Committee, Latin American Studies Association, 2000-2001
Articles Reviewed for Journals:
World Politics, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017,
2018
American Political Science Review, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2015
Latin American Politics and Society, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
Comparative Political Studies, 2000, 2002, 2008, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
American Journal of Political Science, 2002, 2004
Comparative Politics, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2004
Latin American Research Review, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008
Party Politics, 2009, 2011
Political Research Quarterly, 1994, 2003
Policy Studies Journal, 1997
Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, 1998, 1999, 2000
Latin American Politics and Society, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011,
2012, 2013, 2014
International Studies Quarterly, 1999
Journal of Latin American Studies, 2003, 2004
American Sociological Review, 2012
Manuscripts Reviewed for Book Publishers:
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Cambridge University Press, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
Oxford University Press, 2014
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013
University of Chicago Press, 201
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004
University of Miami North-South Center Press, 1996, 2000
Pittsburgh University Press, 1997, 2004
Stanford University Press, 1998, 1999
Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999
Duke University Press, 2000
Grant Proposals Reviewed for National Funding Organizations:
1. National Science Foundation, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2003
2. Canadian Social Science Research Council, 1997, 1999
3. National Science Foundation, the Netherlands, 2012
Administrative Work in Department, College, and University Committees:
Cornell University Faculty Senate, 2019
Einaudi Center Director Search Committee, 2018-19.
Tenure Review Committee, Department of Government, 2018
Cornell Institute for Public Affairs (CIPA) Admissions Committee, 2018
American Politics Search Committee, Department of Government, Cornell, 2017
Fulbright Scholarship Selection Committee, Latin American Studies Program, Cornell, 2017
Steering Committee, Latin American Studies Program, Cornell, 2005-
Tenure Review Committee, Department of Government, 2015
Internationalization Task Force, Office of the Vice-Provost for International Affairs , 2013-2015
Senior Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, 2012-
Robert S. Harrison Director, Institute for the Social Sciences, Cornell University, 2009-
Interim Co-Director, Latin American Studies Program, Cornell University, spring semesters, 2008 and
2009
Social Sciences Task Force (established by Deputy Provost David Harris as part of the strategic planning
associated with Reimagining Cornell), 2009
Sub-Committee on Social Science Research Units, Social Sciences Task Force, 2009
Chair, Comparative Politics Hiring Committee, Department of Government (2009/10)
Faculty Advisory Committee, Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future, 2009-
Advisory Board, Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center, 2009-
Ad hoc tenure review committee, Law School, Cornell, 2008
Ad hoc tenure review committee, College of Arts and Sciences, Cornell, 2007
Mid-Probationary Review Committee, Department of Government, Cornell, 2006
Admissions Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, Cornell, 2006-07
Graduate Committee, Government Department, Cornell, 2005-06
Chair, Department of Political Science, University of New Mexico, Aug. 2001-March 2005
Ethics and Advisory Committee, University of New Mexico Faculty Senate, 2003-04
Interdisciplinary Committee for Latin American Studies, Latin American Institute, UNM, 1995-2005
Policy Committee, Latin American and Iberian Institute, 2002-03
Program Committee, Latin American and Iberian Institute, UNM, 1992-2002
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Graduate Studies Committee, Dept. of Political Science, UNM, 1993-94 and 2000-01
Executive Committee, Dept. of Political Science, UNM, 1994-95
Grants and Awards Committee, Latin American Institute, UNM, 1994-1996 and 2000-01
Chair, Latin American Search Committee, Department of Political Science, UNM, 2000-01
Community Service:
1. Board of Directors, Re-Visioning New Mexico, 2000-2002; President, 2002-03
2. National Executive Board, Witness for Peace, 1993-1997
3. Human Rights Training, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Los Angeles and San Francisco
Asylum Offices, January and May, 1996
4. Member of the Carter Center’s Election Observation Delegation to Caracas and Maracaibo,
Venezuela, December, 1998, May, 2000, November 2003, August 2004.
Media Outreach:
“Algunas Lecciones para AMLO del Giro a la Izquierda en América Latina,” Oraculus: Política y
Gobierno, Feb. 27, 2019 (blog post).
“A Right Turn in Latin America? (co-authored with Santiago Anria, AULA Blog, Jan. 9, 2019.
“Chile: Election Likely to Show Big Political Shifts,” (co-authored with Eduardo Silva), AULA Blog,
Nov. 2, 2017.
Interview, DiarioUChile, April 5, 2016 (http://radio.uchile.cl/2016/04/05/politologo-estadounidense-
seria-raro-que-la-nueva-mayoria-sobreviva-a-largo-plazo)