Books
Democratic Chile: The Politics and Policies of a Historic Coalition, 1990-2010, edited volume with Kirsten Sehnbruch (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Press, 2014), 361 pages.
Reviewed in Latin American Politics and Society, Journal of Latin American Studies, Bulletin of Latin American Research
https://www.rienner.com/title/Democratic_Chile_The_Politics_and_Policies_of_a_Historic_Coalition_1990_2010
El Balance: Política y las políticas de la Concertación, edited volume with Kirsten Sehnbruch (Santiago: Catalonia, 2014)—Spanish translation of above volume.
http://www.catalonia.cl/el-balance-politica-politicas-de-la-concertacion-19902010-p-3416.html
Getting Immigration Right: What Every American Needs to Know, edited volume with David Coates (Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2009), 290 pages.
http://www.potomacbooksinc.com/books/BookDetail.aspx?productid=186452
Pathways to Power: Political Recruitment and Candidate Selection in Latin America, edited volume with Scott Morgenstern. (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008), 440 pages.
Reviewed in: Choice, Latin American Politics and Society, Revista de Ciencia Política.
http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-03375-4.html
The President and Congress in Post-Authoritarian Chile: Institutional Constraints to Democratic Consolidation (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000), 245 pages.
Reviewed in: American Political Science Review, América Latina Hoy, Choice, Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, International Affairs, Journal of Latin American Studies, Latin American Research Review.
http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/0-271-01947-6.html
Journal Articles
(Last 5 years)
“Chile’s Constitutional Moment” Current History, 120: 823 (February 2021): 43-50.
https://online.ucpress.edu/currenthistory/article/120/823/43/115914/Chile-s-Constitutional-Moment
Crisis of Representation in Chile? The Institutional Connection,” Journal of Politics in Latin America, 3 (2016): 61-93. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1866802X1600800303
“Cabinets and Informal Advisory Networks in Multiparty Presidential Systems,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, 46:3 (2016): 569-591. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/psq.12295
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Book Chapters
(Last 5 years)
“Political Representation in Chile: Electoral Institutions, Elites and Voters,” in André Freire, Mélany Barragán, Xavier Coller, Marco Lisi, Emmanouil Tsatsanis, eds. Political Representation in Southern Europe and Latin America: Before and After the Great Recession and the Commodity Crisis (New York: Routledge, 2020):207-225.
“Más allá de lo formal, el castigo y las sanciones: Supervisión legislativa en Chile,” in Rodrigo Velázquez, ed. Supervisión legislativa del poder ejecutivo en América Latina (Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, Spring 2019): 106-158.
“El centro presidencial en Chile. Instituciones formales y redes informales,” in Jorge Lanzaro, ed. Centro Presidencial. Presidencias y Centros de Gobierno en América Latina, Estados Unidos y Europa (Madrid: Tecnos, 2018): 157-193.
“Chile: From Democracy to Dictatorship and Back,” in Harvey Kline, Christina Wade and Howard Wiarda, eds. Latin American Politics and Development, Ninth Edition (New York: Westview Press, 2018): 141-168.
“Elite-Mass Congruence in Chile” in Alfredo Joignant, Mauricio Morales, and Claudio Fuentes, eds. Malaise in Representation in Latin America, eds. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017): 93-118.
“Bachelet is Back: Reform Prospects and the Future of Democracy in Chile,” in Georgina Waylen, ed. Gender, Institutions, and Change in Bachelet’s Chile, (London: Palgrave Publishers, 2016): 39-66.
“Enclaves of the Transition and Chilean Democracy,” in State University of St. Petersburg, ed. Rusia y Iberoamerica en el mundo globalizante: Proceedings of the Second International Forum on Russia and Iberoamerica (St. Petersburg: State University of St. Petersburg, 2016): 825-843.
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Book Reviews, Review Essays, Working Papers, Research Reports, and Encyclopedia Entries
(Last 5 years)
Review of El sistema politico de Chile, eds. Carlos Huneeus and Octavio Avendaño, (Santiago: LOM, 20185) in Latin American Politics and Society, 63(2) (2021): 161-164. doi:10.1017/lap.2021.11
Review Essay, “Recipes for Political Party Success… and Failure,” Latin American Research Review 55(4), pp. 850-858. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25222/larr.1265
Review Essay, “Political Recruitment and Candidate Selection in Latin America, “Oxford Research Encylopedia of Politics, Eds. Harry Vanden and Gary Prevost, New York: Oxford University Press, with Scott Morganstern (September 2020).
Review Essay, “Recruitment and Selection for Elected Office,” Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science, Ed. Sandy Maisel, New York: Oxford University Press, with Scott Morganstern (April 2019): 291-305.
Review Essay, “Chile: Politics and Government,” Handbook of Latin American Studies, Washington DC: The Library of Congress (Vol. 73: Spring 2019): 291-305.
Review Essay, “Chile: Politics and Government,” Handbook of Latin American Studies, Washington DC: The Library of Congress (Vol 71: Spring 2016): 97-114.
Review of The Success of the Left in Latin America, by Rosario Queirolo in Democratization, 23:2 (2016): 370-372, with John Polga-Hecimovich.
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Commentary and Public Writing
(Last 5 years)
Video Podcast, Apuntes Consituyentes: Sistema Político, 12/23/2020.
Chile’s Constitution Writers Are Very New to Politics, 5/20/2021, Americas Quarterly, with Jennifer Piscopo. Also featured in La Nación (Argentina).
Chile’s Constitutional Turning Point, 4/1/21, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs.
Convención Constituyente: ¿Caras nuevas o las mismas de siempre?, 2/06/2021, CIPER Académico, with Jennifer Piscopo.
Op-Ed. Lecciones de América Latina para la democracia de EE.UU., La Tercera 1/15/2021. Also featured in Clarín (Argentina), Fohla de São Paulo and El Universal (Mexico).
Democracy Nerd Podcast, Episode 20: Chile votes to rewrite its constitution, December 11, 2020.
Chile voted to write a new constitution. Will it promise more than the government can deliver? 10/30/2020, Washington Post, Monkey Cage, with Jennifer Piscopo
Chile abolishes its dictatorship-era constitution in groundbreaking vote for a more inclusive democracy, The Conversation 10/25/2020, with Jennifer Piscopo. Also featured in U.S. News and World Report.
Chile: Can the Constitutional Plebiscite Lead to a New Social Contract?, AULABLOG, American University, 1/9/2020.
Podcast for the FiveThirtyEight Primaries Project, https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/there-has-to-be-a-better-way-to-pick-presidential-nominees-right/, 1/3/2020.
Q & A “Amicable Ties between Argentina and Chile Warm Under Macri” World Politics Review. January 10, 2017.
Q & A “Bachelet’s Labor Policy Leaves No-one Happy in Chile” World Politics Review. On-line. November 29, 2016.
Negative Headlines Mask Bachelet’s Successful Reform Record in Chile World Politics Review. May 20, 2016, with Kirsten Sehnbruch.
Q & A “Government Missteps Exacerbate Chile’s Growing Corruption Problem” World Politics Review. On-line. April 20, 2016.
Contributions to the Latin American Advisor (Inter-American Dialogue: Washington, DC).
On widespread social protest in Chile, October 28, 2019.
On Chile’s economic growth prospects for 2019, August 29, 2019.
On the potential for pension reform under Chile’s Sebastián Piñera government, March 23, 2018.
On the victory of Sebastián Piñera in the 2017 Chilean presidential election, December 19, 2017.
On the departure of several of Chilean President Michelle Bachelet’s ministers, September 13, 2017.
On Sebastián Piñera’s electoral prospects in the Chilean presidential election, July 11, 2017.
On the Chilean student protest movement and educational reform, April 26, 2017.
On trends for 2017 in Latin America, December 23, 2016.
On the victory of the right in the Chilean municipal elections, November 8, 2016.
On the Bolivian government’s conflict with striking miners, September 9, 2016.
On defeat of Evo Morales’ in national plebiscite, February 23, 2016