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Economic Liberalization in Latin America Surprisingly Reduces Political Protest

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Latin America

Marginal Structural Model

Economic Liberalization

Depoliticization

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When Selling Offices Made Rebellions More Likely in Colonial Peru

Office Selling

Audiencia

Colonial Peru

Rebellions

Hierarchical Oversight

Legitimacy Shaped Bolivia’s COVID-19 Responses and Public Compliance

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Bolivia

Legitimacy

Polarization

Mobility

Subnational

POP

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Paradox: Military Weapons Improve Police Image in Mexico Despite Violence Links

Militarization

Mexico

Conjoint

Gender

Civil Liberties

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Women's Police Stations Shift Attitudes on Gender-Based Violence

Women Police Stations

Attitude Change Regarding GBV

Gender-Based Violence

Policy Intervention Affecting Men

Mexican Businesses Link Violence Exposure to Higher Social Spending Support

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Mexico

Business Owners

Survey Experiment

Tax Policy

Opportunistic Legislators Flip Votes When Elections Matter Most

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Legislative Vote Switching

Argentina ChamberDeputies

Roll-Call Voting

Principal-Agent Conflict

Why Work Insecurity Shifts Latin American Workers From Wages to Political Demands

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Productionist

Consumptionist

Atomization

Insecurity

Latin America

1 R files

Recalls Can Backfire: Ousted Incumbents Produce Less Qualified, Less Representative Candidates

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2021

Accountability

Recall

Candidate Selection

Peru

Political Capture

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Mexico's Drug War Fears: Do They Deter Voters from Corruption?

Corruption Perception

Drug War Violence

Mexican Voters

Crime Exposure

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New Research Finds Gender Disparities in Legislation Stem from Institutional Access

Argentina

Legislative Outcomes

Causal Mediation Analysis

Committee Leadership

New Evidence: War Shaped State Building in Latin America After All

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Postwar State Formation

Paraguayan War

Pacific War

Long-term Effects

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Why Better Schools Hurt Incumbents in Brazil

Brazil

Education

Electoral Accountability

Regression Discontinuity

Field Experiment

New Study Reveals Remittances Shape Political Behavior in Latin America

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Latin America

Latent Class Analysis

Political Participation Typology

Crime Victimization Effects

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Remittance Recipients

Latin America & Caribbean

Development Context

Political Behavior

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Brazilians Share Bolsonaro’s Controversial Views — But Partisanship, Not Them, Drove Votes

Brazil

Bolsonaro

Partisanship

Democracy

Survey

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Female Politicians Get Harsher Treatment? New Survey Experiments Reveal Stronger Backlash for Corruption Allegations in Latin America

Gender Gap

Backlash Theory

Female Politicians

Corruption Allegations

Brazil

Mexico

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Mexican Reform Lifts Reelection Ban; Legislators Focus More On Election-Friendly Policies

Electoral Accountability

Electoral Reform Mexico

Particularistic Legislation

Difference-in-Differences

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Electoral Dis-Connection: Why Re-Election Doesn't Always Mean Stronger Accountability

Electoral Disconnection

Re-election Limits

Weak Accountability

From Antipetismo to Generalized Antipartisanship: The Impact of Rejection of Political Parties on the 2018 Vote for Bolsonaro, Published in Bpsr, Vol. 15, N. 1, 2021BPSR

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1 R files

6 Other

Legislative Seats Matter More Than Thought? Ambition and Consolation Prizes in Argentina

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Argentina

Chamber Of Deputies

Incumbency Effects

Regression Discontinuity

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Does Democracy Require Inclusion? How Exclusion Hampers Political Tolerance

Political Tolerance

Inequality

Latin America

Ethnoracial Hierarchies

Insiders don't always oppose outsiders: Skill level shapes redistribution preferences

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Insiders

Outsiders

Skill Level

Survey Experiment

Latin America

Why Latin American Elites Back International Climate Rules and Tougher Fines

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Conjoint

Latin America

Climate Policy

Institutions

Elites

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Do Weak Courts Help Women Advance? New Study on Latin American Judicial Changes

Judicial Reshuffles

Women Justices

Latin America

Difference-in-differences

Dynamic Panel

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Oversight or Representation? Exploring Motives Behind Impeachment Resolutions in Argentina and Brazil

Argentina

Brazil

Impeachment Resolution

Descriptive Representation

Regression Discontinuity

Party Unity in Mexico: Discipline Resists Nomination Rule Changes Despite Personal Vote Ban

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Party Unity

Mexican Deputies

Candidate Selection

Electoral Incentives

Why Peace Deals Fail When Bad Guys Don't Get Caught: Insights on Accountability

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Civil Wars

Worldviews

Accountability

Deterrence

When Officers Leave, Crime Rises: 10% Drop, 7% More Crime

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Policing

Police Presence

Rapid Response

Instrumental Variables

Dallas

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How Political Training Changed Across Four Generations of Argentine and Brazilian Activists

Political Training

Activists

Argentina

Brazil

Interviews

1 PDF

How Elite Networks Helped Drive Haiti’s 1991 Coup and Post-Coup Price Spikes

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Elite Networks

Coups

Haiti

Network Analysis

Price Effects

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Wartime Agency Cooperation Enables State Violence in Peru

State Violence

Peru

Civilian Agencies

Wartime Repression

Election Logistics: How Ballots Shape Power in Colombia's Party System

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Election Logistics

Colombian Politics

Party Systems

Quantitative Analysis

How has militarizing police affected democracy across Latin America?

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Latin America

Constabularization

Democratic Governance

Civilian Oversight

POP

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Property Taxes & Political Behavior: How Fiscal Policy Shapes Votes in Brazil

Property Taxation

Brazil

Fiscal Policy

Electoral Incentives

1 other files

This Means: Political inclusion backfires as new leaders anger elites, leading to paramilitaries' violence

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Winner's Curse

Paramilitaries

Colombia

Regression Discontinuity

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Communal Land Titling Might Actually Harm Indigenous Political Representation

Communal Property

Indigenous Politics

Peru

Collective Action Theory

Chilean Democracy Reform: What Preferences Inform the New Constitution?

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Chileans

Democratic Features

Constitutional Reform

Conjoint Experiment

When Insurgents Leave: How Organizational Collapse Drove FARC Desertions

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Desertion

Organizational Decline

FARC

Counterinsurgency

Multimethod

IS

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2020

Brazil's Largest Vote: How a Small GOTV Intervention Boosted Participation

Brazil

Participatory Budgeting

GOTV Experiment

Democratic Participation

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Did politicians learn how effective brokers were by analyzing past election results?

Clientelism

Elections

Brazil

Broker Performance

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Beyond Repression: How Dictatorship Rewarded Pop Culture Supporters in Chile

Pop Culture

Regime Support Maintenance

Text Analysis

Chile Dictatorship

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Why Bolivia and Ecuador Pivoted Their Foreign Policy Away From the U.S.

Bolivia

Ecuador

Foreign Policy

Party System

Leftist Governments

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Why Vote Buying Favors Lighter Skin in Latin America's Elections

Electoral Clientelism

Latin America

Indigenous Populations

Skin Color

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Resources and Values, Not Grievance, Drive Protest in Latin America

Protest

Resources

Grievance

Values

Latin America

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Argentina Replicates: All Citizens Heed Reliable Corruption Information

Information Credibility

Argentina Corruption

Political Sophistication

Partisan Bias

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Why Brazil Failed to Become South America's Economic Hub

Brazil

Nodality

Geography

Integration

Infrastructure

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Police Pacifying Rio's Slums: Mixed Results from State Intervention

Criminal Governance

Social Order

Rio De Janeiro

UPPS

Police Violence

Organized Crime

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Land Redistribution's Surprising Peace Effect in Peru

Land Reform

Regression Discontinuity Design

Peru

Counterinsurgency

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How News Media Shaped Brazil's Congressional Debate Over Lowering Juvenile Responsibility

Deliberative Systems

News Media

Brazil

Public Hearings

Case Study

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Pension Reforms Create New Neoliberal Voters in Latin America?

Pension Reform

Neoliberalism

Capital Ownership

Survey Data

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Acid Attacks in Colombia: Passion Campaigns Fuel Unusual Gender-Based Violence

Acid Attacks

Colombia

National Passion Campaign

Gendered Violence

Affective Economy

POP

1 text files

Why Some Territorial Disputes Remain Unsettled: The AAA Model in Latin America

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Resistant Territorial Disputes

Latin America

Militarization

Democratization

Mediation

2 Datasets

Not Cash, Monitoring: Attendance Checks Reduce Dropouts in Brazil’s Bolsa Família

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Bolsa Família

Conditionality Monitoring

Cash Transfers

Education Outcomes

Growth-curve

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How Brazil’s Prosecutors Went Global: Corruption Fight Tied to Corporate Networks

Anti-corruption

Brazil

Public Prosecutor

Internationalization

Document Analysis

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How Big Firms Keep Brazil in a Low‑Innovation Trap

Brazil

Innovation System

Big Business

ST&I Budget

Institutional Reform

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Wealthy Argentines Back Redistribution: A Surprising Study of Inequality Aversion

Inequality Aversion

Redistribution Preferences

Wealthy Supporters

Buenos Aires Residents

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2019

Official Ballots Restricted Suffrage: A Counterintuitive Outcome from Brazil's Second Republic

Ballot Reform

Brazil Second Republic

Illiteracy Effects

Difference-in-differences

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In Shifting Regimes, Economic Perceptions Bolster Trust in Latin America

Latin America

Political Trust

Economic Perceptions

Latinobarómetro

Longitudinal

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US Aid Missions Boosted Peruvian Views of American Influence

Foreign Policy

Humanitarian Aid

Peru

Public Diplomacy

Why Left Governments Redistributed More: Veto Players Matter More Than Capital Flight

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Redistribution

Veto Players

Capital Mobility

Latin America

Panel Regression

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TRC Numbers Misleading: Capture-Recapture Methods Flipped Expected Results

Capture-Recapture

Peru TRC

Indirect Estimation

Does Bigger Mean Better? Community Size, Social Capital, and Political Engagement in Latin America

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Community Participation

Social Capital

Latin America

Governance Structures

Pol. Behav.

Constituent Demand Drives District Resource Priorities in Latin America

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Relative Deprivation

Credit Claiming

Latin America Countries

Resource Allocation

Broken Peace Pact in Colombia Shatters Trust Among Ex-Paramilitaries

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Institutional Trust

Normative Commitments

Colombia

Instrumentalist Reasons

2 Datasets

Why Some Transparency Boosts Peruvian Approval Despite Overall Skepticism?

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Peru

Transparency Websites

Survey Experimentation

Government Performance Perception

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When Protests Erupt Online: How Venezuelan Regimes Navigate Twitter

Venezuela

Regime Response

Social Media

Protest Management

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Peru's Security Spending Cuts Health: Unintended Consequences of Soldier Deaths

Peru

Budget Allocation Shifts

Defense Spending Increase

Infant Mortality

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Human Rights Protests Reduce Both Repression and Oppression in Latin America

Human Rights Protests

Latin America Countries

State Repression

Criminal Justice Accountability

Why Committee Members Are the Stars of Parliamentary Debates

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Parliamentary Debates

Committee Training

Portugal Legislature

Supervised ML Approach

Presidential Pull Shifted Local Ideology, Yet Brazil Stayed Mostly Right

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Brazil

Ideology

Incumbency

Municipal-level

Proportional Representation

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Brazilian Voters Ignore Corruption Knowledge When Voting for Their Own Mayor

Brazil

Pernambuco State Accounts Court

Field Experiment

Corruption Perception

Local Elections

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Brazil’s Senate Treats Diplomatic Picks Like Other Appointments

Brazil

Senate

Diplomatic Appointments

Legislative Oversight

Presidentialism

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Why Brazilian Presidents Get Their Bills Passed — Popularity Isn't Helping

Legislative Success

Brazil

Coalitions

Prerogatives

Provisional Measures

Rethinking Mortality Estimates: A Critical Look at the Shining Path Conflict Study

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Truth Reconciliation Commission

Peru

Shing Path

Selection Bias

Statistical Decision Theory

1 Archives

Odd Seats, Odd Results: Argentina Shows District Magnitude Matters

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District Magnitude

Argentina Elections

Lottery Method

Proportional Representation

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Wartime Violence Sparks Domestic Abuse in Peru Study Reveals

Intimate Partner Violence

Peru DHS

Conflict Sexual Violence

Microevidence

Urbanization Shapes Information Impact on Rural Female Voting Participation in Paraguay

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Urbanization Patterns

Paraguay

Female Voting Participation

Door-to-Door Canvassing

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How Brazil’s State Twitter Accounts Framed Rousseff’s Impeachment

Twitter

Impeachment

Brazil

Presidency

Content Analysis

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Party and Personal Influence Tied in Legislators' Networks

Legislative Networks

Brazilian Deputies

Exponential Random Graph Model

Descriptive Representation

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2018

Hidden Opposition: How Social Desirability Masks White Views on Brazilian Affirmative Action

Affirmative Action

List Experiment

Brazil

Racial Attitudes

Political Knowledge

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When Openness Hurts: How Bank Concentration Blocks Credit After Liberalization

Capital Account

Concentration

Credit Access

Latin America

Panel Data

II

6 Stata files

1 PDF

Truncated Welfare States: Why Do Latin Americans Expect Less Redistribution?

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Truncated Welfare State

Redistributive Preferences

Latin America

Survey Data

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South America Surged in Brazilian Diplomacy, Especially Under Lula

Latin America

South America

Brazil

Content Analysis

Regionalism

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Beyond Europe: Why Economic Voting Favors Institutional Clarity in Latin America

Institutional Effects

Electoral Systems

Presidential Regimes

Concurrence Requirements

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Internal Conflict Doesn't Build State Capacity: It Enables Private Tax Benefits in Colombia

Endogenous Taxation

Colombia

Guerrilla Influence

Paramilitary Control

Institutional Capture

State Building

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Why Brazil’s Parties Concentrate in Governors but Fragment in the Lower House

Brazil

Electoral Alliances

Party Systems

Gubernatorial Elections

Candidate Entry

Brazilian Study Challenges Prevailing Wisdom on Diversity Effects

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Afro-descendant Communities

Brazilian Municipalities

Homogeneity Effects

Previous Findings Reliability

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Expensive Colonial Governorships Correlated With Lower Long-Term Development In Peru

Corruption Proxies

Colonial Governance Effects

Peru Geography

Governor Characteristics

Schooling Consumption Gap

APSR

2 archives

Brazil's Political Candidates Respond Equally Before, Differently After Election: A Strategic Shift?

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Brazil

Field Experiment

Strategic Discrimination

Prejudice

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Null Ballots or Valid Votes? How Latin Americans Fight Elections

Descriptive Representation

Null Vote

Peru Brazil

Citizen Grievance

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Presidential Approval Follows a Predictable Cycle: Evidence from Latin America

Presidential Approval Cycle

Latin America Countries

Honeymoon Effect Presidents

New Survey Database

Why Older Latin Americans Favor Democracy Despite Authoritarian Pasts

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Generations

Democracy

Authoritarianism

Americas Barometer

Political Socialization

Unequal Talk? How Conversations Bridge or Deepen Knowledge Gaps in Brazil

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Brazil

Multilevel Modeling

Panel Survey

Descriptive Representation Theory

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Why Argentina Accepted Brazil's Peaceful Rise in the Southern Cone

Power Transition

Process Tracing

Argentina

Brazil

Regionalism

FPA

Party Leaders Face Tightrope: Effective Brokers Risk Machine Vulnerability

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2017

Political Machines

Brokers

Survey Experiments

Argentina

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Elections Alone Can't Boost Well-Being: Participatory Institutions Matter More

Brazilian Municipalities

Citizenship Debates

Participatory Institutions

Infant Mortality

APSR

Why Comparing Ideal Points Across Brazil's Two Houses Can Mislead

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Ideal Points

Brazil

Legislatures

Roll-call

Comparative Methods

How Do Chilean Parties Balance Speech Incentives with Institutional Constraints?

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Chilean Politics

Speech Allocation

Institutional Constraints

Personal Incentives

1 R files

How Twitter Follows Reveal Brazilian Politicians' Ideological Positions

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Twitter

Ideal Points

Brazil

Bayesian Model

Roll Call

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Resource Disparities Explain Brazil's Racial Representation Gap

Brazil

Descriptive Representation

Elite Closures

Campaign Contributions

Racial Preferences

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How Crime Both Erodes and Strengthens Trust in Mexican Human Rights Groups

Human Rights

Mexico

Victimization

Public Trust

Surveys

JHR

2 Text

Vote Buying Enforcement Requires Small-Scale Monitoring for Compliance

i

Collective Monitoring

Vote Buying

Colombia

Regression Discontinuity

i

Why Some Brazilian Ministries Matter More: Finance Tops, Fisheries Trail

Portfolios

Coalition

Brazil

Factor Analysis

Ministries

i

Understanding the Role of Trust in High-Income Tax Compliance Across Latin America

Fiscal Contract

Progressive Taxation

LAPOP Surveys

Income Inequality

i

Presidential Pledges vs. Post-Election Reality: Why Parties Form Pre-Electoral Coalitions

Pre-Electoral Coalitions

Descriptive Representation

Latin America

Regression Analysis

i

2016

New Parties Remade Latin American Democracy — Winning Presidency Mattered

Lijphart

Consensus Democracy

Majoritarianism

Party Systems

Clientelism

i

Compulsory Voting in Brazil Widens Turnout Gap

Compulsory Voting

Turnout

Brazil

Education

Regression Discontinuity

i

Indigenous Movements' Strength Depends on Unity: New Data Examines Political Inclusion in Latin America

Indigenous Movements

Ethnic Inclusion

Latinoamérica

Mixed Methods Analysis

3 Stata files

1 Text

Who Relies on Corporate Money in Brazil's 2010 Deputy Races?

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Brazil

Incumbency

Corporate Donations

Tobit

Legislative Elections

How Democracy And Party Ideology Shape State Capacity In Latin America

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State Capacity

Democracy

Partisanship

Latin America

Panel Regression

i

Authoritarian Values Boost Right-Wing Candidates in Latin America

Authoritarian Parenting

Civil Liberties

Right-wing Ideology

Latin America

1 Text

Why Small Parties Have Little Effect on Brazilian Elections

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Brazil

Small Parties

Cluster Analysis

Electoral Volatility

Disproportionality

3 Datasets

Expressive and Strategic Behavior in Legislative Elections in ArgentinaPol. Behav.

i

i

Fragmented Parties and Strong Presidents Lead to Oversized Coalitions

Coalitions

Party Fragmentation

Presidentialism

Brazil

Panel Data

2 Text

Brazil’s Legislature Rewrites Almost 40% of Laws Sent by the President

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Brazil

Legislature

Textual Analysis

Substitute Bills

Provisional Decrees

Clientelism Changes Voter Loyalty: New Evidence from Brazil

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Voter Buying

Clientelism

Brazil

Electoral Fraud

i

2015

Electoral Rules Shape Polarization in Brazil — But Not Always

Electoral Rule

Polarization

Brazil

WNOMINATE

Roll Call

Before 1937, Brazil's Senators Were Already Building Diverse, Long Careers

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First Republic

Brazil

Senators

Political Careers

Biographical Analysis

2 Datasets

Why Incumbency Advantage Is Harder to Measure Outside the U.S.

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Incumbency

Selection Bias

Brazil

Mayors

Party Switching

i

Does Class Matter in Politics? New Data Shows Unequal Representation Has Real Consequences

Comparative Politics

Class Bias

Officeholders' Behavior

Political Parties

i

Why Brazil’s State Spending Increases Income Inequality

Gini Decomposition

Brazil

Public Sector

Redistribution

POF

i

Beyond Symbolic Representation: How Enforcement Shapes Political Alliances

Representation Theory

Clientelism Dynamics

Policy Targeting

Institutional Bias

i

Brazil's 'New Middle Class' Isn't What It Appears

Brazil

Middle Class

Household Survey

Consumption

Social Class

How Coalitions Reshape Presidential Offices in Argentina and Brazil

i

Presidency

Coalitions

Comparative

Argentina

Brazil

i

How Leftist Victories Reflect Voter Views Across Latin America

Ideology

Joint Scaling

Latin America

Representation

Surveys

i

2014

Power Gap Explains Why South American States Drift From the U.S. at the UN

Power Gap

UNGA Voting

Realism

Panel Analysis

South America

i

Why Brazilian Presidents Claim Congress's Bills as Their Own

Brazil

Agenda Appropriation

Coalition Presidentialism

QCA

Colombia Study: Decentralization Boosts Accountability, Except for Political Changes

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Decentralization

Colombia

Accountability

Administrative

i

Legal Independence, Practical Dependence: Brazil’s Public Defender Offices Fall Short

Institutionalisation

Public Defenders

Judicial Empowerment

Brazil

Access To Justice

i

Conditional Acceptance of Vote Buying by Clients? NGOs vs Politicians

Vote Buying

Client Attributes

Experimental Approach

Latin America

i

Brazil Shown to Be Different: How Party Labels Shape Policy Views

Party Labels

Survey Experiments

Brazil

Policy Positions

i

2013

States in the Customs House: Institutional Reforms and Structural Change in Mexican Trade PolicyISQ

2 R files

How Courts Reshape National–Regional Politics in Brazil, Colombia, and Spain

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Judicial Review

Judicialization

Federalism

Brazil

Colombia

CCTs Boost Incumbent Votes in Brazil Elections—Even When Different Parties?

i

Conditional Cash Transfers

Brazil Elections

Incumbent Advantage

Voter Turnout Effects

i

2011

Brazil's Legislative Voting: Ideology vs Government Influence

Ideal Point

Ideology Dimension

Government Opposition

Brazil

14 datasets

Beyond Ideology?: New Study Reveals Government Control's Role in Roll Call Votes

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Ideal Point Model

Government Opposition Dimension

Brazil Politics

Coalition Shifts

8 text files

Wartime Sexual Violence in Guatemala and PeruISQ

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2009

3 other files

Criticism Didn't Last—How Latin American Repression Responds Briefly to International Shaming

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2008

Human Rights Criticism

Political Repression

Latin America

Ngos Effectiveness

Trade Liberalization Boosts Sovereign Ratings While Other Neoliberal Policies Don't in Latin America

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2007

Sovereign Bond Ratings

Trade Liberalization

Neoliberal Policies

Latin America

2 Other