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Kellogg Institute for International Studies

The Kellogg Institute for International Studies is designed to advance understanding of Third World development, particularly in Latin America, through research, education, and outreach. In its study of Latin America and other developing areas, the Institute focuses primarily on democratization and the quality of democracy; paths to development; religion and the Catholic Church; social movements and organized civil society; and public policies for social justice.
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• January 01, 2018 Who Protects Whom? Politicians, Police and the Regulation of Drug Trafficking in Argentina
  By: Hernan Flom
• September 01, 2017 Working with Culture on the Peripheries of Idi Amin’s Uganda
  By: Derek Peterson
• June 01, 2017 The Andean Indigenist Program, 1951–1975: Integration, Development, State Formation, and Women
  By: Mercedes Prieto
• June 01, 2017 Rebelocracy: A Theory of Social Order in Civil War
  By: Ana Arjona
• May 01, 2017 Time, Relations and Behaviors: Measuring the Transformative Power of Love-Based Community Life
  By: Mario Maggioni, Simona Beretta
• April 01, 2017 Delegating Away Democracy: How Good Representation and Policy Successes Can Undermine Democratic Attitudes
  By: Mathew Singer
• April 01, 2017 The Developmental Legacies of the Bifurcated Colonial State: Statistical Evidence from Sixty-Seven British, French, and Portuguese Colonies
  By: Olukunle P. Owolabi
• January 01, 2017 Islam, Christianity, and Attitudes Toward Women's Political Equality: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
  By: Kristin Michelitch, Keith R Weghorst
• January 01, 2017 The Time Inconsistency of Long Constitutions: Evidence from the World
  By: George Tsebelis
• December 01, 2016 Resilience and Change: The Party System in Redemocratized Chile
  By: Nicolás Somma, Timothy R. Scully, J. Samuel Valenzuela
• May 01, 2015 Increasing Anti-Malaria Bednets Uptake Using Information and Distribution Strategies: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Senegal
  By: Jacopo Bonan, Philippe LeMay-Boucher, Douglas Scott, Michel Tenikue
• May 01, 2015 Geographies of Violence: A Spatial Analysis of Five Types of Homicide in Brazil’s Municipalities
  By: Matthew C. Ingram, Marcelo Marchesini da Costa
• April 01, 2015 Power, Markets, and Top Income Shares
  By: Evelyne Huber, Huo Jingjing , John D. Stephens
• March 01, 2015 The Electoral Basis of Ideological Polarization in Latin America
  By: Juan Andrés Moraes
• February 01, 2015 Democratization and Other Civil War Legacies in Central America
  By: Fabrice Lehoucq
• November 01, 2014 The Politics of Polarization: Governance and Party System Change in Latin America, 1990–2010
  By: Sam Handlin
• June 05, 2014 Strengthening Democratic Quality: Reactive Deliberation in the Context of Direct Democracy
  By: David Altman
• June 05, 2014 A Lexical Index of Electoral Democracy
  By: Svend-Erik Skaaning, John Gerring, Henrikas Bartusevičius
• April 05, 2014 Vote-Buying and Asymmetric Information
  By: Rodrigo Zarazaga
• March 05, 2014 Women's Representation and Legislative Committee Appointments: The Case of the Argentine Provinces
  By: Tiffany Barnes
• February 05, 2014 Resisting Hegemony: Transformations of National Identity Under Foreign Occupation
  By: Robert Person
• December 05, 2013 'WE ARE GAÚCHOS, WE ARE GAÚCHAS...' INCITEMENTS TO GENDERED AND REGIONAL SUBJECTIVITY IN THE 2002 BRAZILIAN ELECTION CAMPAIGNS
  By: Benjamin Junge
• October 05, 2013 Rethinking the Comparative Perspective on Class and Representation: Evidence from Latin America
  By: Nicholas Carnes, Noam Lupu
• September 05, 2012 The Catholic Church, Elections and Democracy In Colombia, 1830–1930
  By: Eduardo Posada-Carbó
• June 05, 2012 Elections in Latin America 2009–2011: A Comparative Analysis
  By: Manuel Alcántara
• June 05, 2012 Networked Justice: Judges, the Diffusion of Ideas, and Legal Reform Movements in Mexico
  By: Matthew C. Ingram
• March 05, 2012 Civil Society After Dictatorship: a Comparison of Portugal and Spain, 1970s–1990s
  By: Tiago Fernandes
• March 05, 2012 The Road to Universal Social Protection: How Costa Rica Informs Theory Juliana
  By: Juliana Martínez Franzoni, Diego Sánchez-Ancochea
• February 05, 2012 Electoral Personalism and Economic Policy
  By: Daniel Kselman
• February 05, 2011 The Concept of the Common Good in the Iberian Renaissance
  By: Isabel de Assis Ribeiro de Oliveira
• January 05, 2011 Designing Cabinets: Presidential Politics and Cabinet Instability in Latin America
  By: Cecilia Martinez-Gallardo
• January 05, 2011 Families, Welfare Institutions and Economic Development: Chile and Sweden in Comparative Perspective
  By: J. Samuel Valenzuela
• November 05, 2010 El Grito: Four Years of Female Clandestine Journalism Against the Military Dictatorship in Panama (1968–1972)
  By: Carlos Guevara Mann, Brittmarie Janson Pérez
• November 05, 2010 The Iron Cage of Democracy: Institutional Similarity and Stasis in African Political Party Systems
  By: Rachel Beatty Riedl
• July 05, 2010 Mining Water for the Revolution: Marte R. Gómez and the Business of Agrarian Reform in "La Laguna," Mexico, 1920s to 1960s
  By: Mikael Wolfe
• July 05, 2010 The Meaning of Left-Right in Latin America: A Comparative View
  By: Nina Wiesehomeier
• July 05, 2010 How Presidents Legislate: Agenda Control and Policy Success in Costa Rica
  By: Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer
• July 05, 2010 The Vote Share of New and Young Parties
  By: Carlos Gervasoni, Scott Mainwaring, Annabella España-Nájera
• July 05, 2010 Mining Water for the Revolution: Marte R. Gómez and the Business of Agrarian Reform in "La Laguna," Mexico, 1920s to 1960s
  By: Mikael Wolfe
• May 05, 2010 Exit During Crisis: How Openness, Migration, and Economic Crisis Affect Democratization
  By: Joseph Wright
• February 05, 2010 Happy News: Censorship, Nationalism, and Language Ideology in China
  By: Susan D. Blum
• December 05, 2009 Elections and the Origins of an Argentine Democratic Tradition, 1810–1880
  By: Eduardo Zimmermann
• December 05, 2009 Islam and the International Sector: Negotiations of Faith in the Kyrgyz Republic
  By: Noor Borbieva
• December 05, 2009 Institutionalizing Inequality: The Political Origins of Labor Codes in Latin America
  By: Matthew E. Carnes, SJ.
• December 05, 2009 Social and Political Effects of Religiosity and Religious Identities in Latin America
  By: Timothy R. Scully, Samuel Valenzuela, Nicolás Somma
• October 05, 2009 Argentina's Double Political Spectrum: Party System, Political Identities, and Strategies, 1944–2007
  By: Pierre Ostiguy
• July 05, 2009 Political Solidarity, Cultural Survival, and the Institutional Design of Autonomy in Nicaragua: From Heterogenous, Multiethnic Spaces to National Homelands
  By: Juliet Hooker
• July 05, 2009 The High and the Low in Politics: A Two-Dimensional Political Space for Comparative Analysis and Electoral Studies
  By: Pierre Ostiguy
• June 05, 2009 La Revocatoria de Mandato: Lecciones a Partir de la Experiencia Venezolana
  By: Miriam Kornblith
• May 05, 2009 Democratic Talk and the Democratic Walk: Superficial Versus Sincere Support for Illiterate Voting Rights in Lebanon
  By: Daniel Corstange
• May 05, 2009 Youth and Civic Engagement in the Americas Preliminary Findings From a Three-City Study: Rio De Janeiro, Chicago, and Mexico City
  By: Irene Rizzini, María de Los Angeles Torres, Norma Alicia Del Río Lugo
• December 05, 2008 The Evolution of Authoritarian Organization in Russia under Yeltsin and Putin
  By: Lucan A. Way
• December 05, 2008 Political Crises and Democracy in Latin America Since the End of the Cold War
  By: Luis E. González
• December 05, 2008 Regime Legacies and Democratization: Explaining Variance in the Level of Democracy in Latin America, 1978—2004
  By: Scott Mainwaring, Aníbal Pérez-Liñán
• December 05, 2008 Understanding the Politics of Latin America's Plural Lefts (Chávez/Lula): Social Democracy, Populism, And Convergence on the Path to a Post-Neoliberal World
  By: John D. French
• August 05, 2008 The Durability of Constitutions in Changing Environments: Explaining Constitutional Replacements in Latin America
  By: Gabriel L. Negretto
• May 05, 2008 Institutions and Politicians: An Analysis of the Factors that Determine Presidential Legislative Success
  By: Manuel Alcántara, Mercedes García Montero
• May 05, 2008 Political Catholicism in Revolutionary Mexico, 1900–1926
  By: Robert Curley
• April 05, 2008 Democracy, Parties and Political Finance in Latin America
  By: Eduardo Posada-Carbó
• April 05, 2008 Democracy and Populism in Latin America
  By: Ignacio Walker
• December 05, 2007 From Patronage to Program: The Emergence of Party-Oriented Legislators in Brazil
  By: Frances Hagopian, Carlos Gervasoni, Juan Andres Moraes
• December 05, 2007 Creating Competition: Patronage Politics and the PRI's Demise
  By: Kenneth F. Greene
• November 05, 2007 The Quality of Democracy in Latin America: Another View
  By: Daniel H. Levine, Jose E. Molina
• November 05, 2007 The Quality of Democracy in Small South American Countries: The Case of Paraguay
  By: Diego Abente Brun
• October 05, 2007 Drugs, Civil War, and the Conditional Impact of the Economy on Democracy
  By: Michael Coppedge, Angel Alvarez, Lucas González
• August 05, 2007 The Future of Christianity in Latin America
  By: Daniel H. Levine
• May 05, 2007 Confronting Colonialism: Maryknoll Catholic Missionaries in Peru and Guatemala, 1943–968
  By: Susan Fitzpatrick Behrens
• May 05, 2007 Development Ethics: A Road to Peace
  By: Adela Cortina
• March 05, 2007 Digital Poverty: Concept and Measurement, with an Application to Peru
  By: Roxana Barrantes Cáceres
• March 05, 2007 The Enduring Presence of Religion in Chilean Ideological Positionings and Voter Options
  By: Nicolás Somma, Timothy R. Scully, J. Samuel Valenzuela
• February 05, 2007 Crony Capitalism and Democracy: Paradoxes of Electoracompetition in Russia's Regions
  By: Gulnaz Sharafutdinova
• February 05, 2007 Latin America and the Catholic Church: Points of Convergence and Divergence (encontros e desencontros) 1960–2005
  By: Luiz Alberto Gómez de Souza
• December 05, 2006 Radical Democracy in the Andes: Indigenous Parties and the Quality of Democracy in Latin America
  By: Donna Lee Van Cott
• December 05, 2006 Latin American Catholicism in an Age of Religious and Political Pluralism: A Framework for Analysis
  By: Frances Hagopian
• April 05, 2005 Party System Institutionalization and Party System Theory After the Third Wave of Democratization
  By: Scott Mainwaring, Mariano Torcal
• March 05, 2005 Class Formation or Fragmentation? Allegiances and Divisions Among Managers and Workers in State-Owned Enterprises
  By: Kun-Chin Lin
• February 05, 2005 On the Continuing Relevance of the Weberian Methodological Perspective (with Applications to the Spanish Case of Elections in the Aftermath of Terrorism)
  By: Robert M. Fishman
• January 05, 2005 Rational Learning and Bounded Learning in the Diffusion of Policy Innovations
  By: Covadonga Meseguer
• October 05, 2004 Tax Effort and Tax Potential of State Governments in Mexico: A Representative Tax System
  By: Horacio Sobarzo
• July 05, 2004 A Sequential Theory of Decentralization and its Effects on the Intergovernmental Balance of Power: Latin American Cases in Comparative Perspective
  By: Tulia G. Falleti
• July 05, 2004 Myths of the Enemy: Castro, Cuba and Herbert L. Matthews of The New York Times
  By: Anthony DePalma
• July 05, 2004 Does Lootable Wealth Breed Disorder? A Political Economy of Extraction Framework
  By: Richard Snyder
• June 05, 2004 On the Role of Distance for Outward Foreign Direct Investment
  By: Peter Egger
• March 05, 2004 The Violence of "Religion": Examining a Prevalent Myth
  By: William T. Cavanaugh
• February 05, 2004 Unemployment, Macroeconomic Policy and Labor Market Flexibility: Argentina and Mexico in the 1990s
  By: Roberto Frenkel, Jaime Ros
• October 05, 2003 Political Disaffection and Democratization: History in New Democracies
  By: Mariano Torcal
• September 05, 2003 Informal Institutions and Comparative Politics: A Research Agenda
  By: Gretchen Helmke, Steven Levitsky
• May 05, 2003 La Posguerra Colombiana: Divagaciones Sobre la Venganza, La Justicia y la Reconciliación
  By: Iván Orozco
• March 05, 2003 Policy Making Under Divided Government in Mexico
  By: Benito Nacif
• February 05, 2003 When Capital Cities Move: The Political Geography of Nation and State Building
  By: Edward Schatz
• January 05, 2003 ¿Crisis en el Sindicalismo en América Latina?
  By: Francisco Zapata
• September 05, 2002 Ámbito y Papel de los Especialistas en las Reformas en los Sistemas de Salud: Los Casos de Brasil y México
  By: Raquel Abrantes Pêgo, Célia Almeida
• September 05, 2002 Contradiction Without Paradox: Evangelical Political Culture in the 1998 Venezuelan Elections
  By: David Smilde
• June 05, 2002 The Labor Movement in Democratic Chile, 1990-2000
  By: Frank K. Volker
• May 05, 2002 Voter Inequality, Turnout And Information Effects in a Cross-National Perspective
  By: Gábor Tóka
• April 05, 2002 Experimentos de Democracia Interna: Las Primarias de Partidos en América Latina
  By: Manuel Alcántara Sáez
• April 05, 2002 Government Expenditures and Equilibrium Real Exchange Rates
  By: Ronald J. Balvers, Jeffrey H. Bergstrand
• April 05, 2002 Venezuela: Popular Sovereignty versus Liberal Democracy
  By: Michael Coppedge
• April 05, 2002 From "Restricted"; to "Besieged": The Changing Nature of the Limits to Democracy in Colombia
  By: Ana Maria Bejarano, Eduardo Pizarro Leongómez
• January 05, 2002 La Atomización Partidista en Colombia: el Fenómeno de las Micro-empresas Electorales
  By: Eduardo Pizarro Leongómez
• January 05, 2002 On the Economic Determinants of Free Trade Agreements
  By: Scott L. Baier, Jeffrey Bergstrand
• January 05, 2002 Fujimori's Financiers: How Japan Became the Largest Aid Donor in Latin America and Its Implications for Future Economic Development
  By: Michael G. Donovan, Kwan S. Kim
• November 05, 2001 Postcommunism as a Historical Episode of State-Building: A Reversed Tillyan Perspective
  By: Venelin I. Ganev
• July 05, 2001 Nongovernmental Terrorism in Latin America: Re-examining Old Assumptions
  By: Andreas Feldmann, Maiju Perälä
• July 05, 2001 Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: The Argentine Justicialista Party In Comparative Perspective
  By: Steven Levitsky
• June 05, 2001 The Taxing Task of Taxing Transnationals
  By: Thomas A. Gresik
• September 05, 2000 The Impact of an Indigenous Counterpublic Sphere on the Practice of Democracy: The Taller de Historia Oral Andina in Bolivia
  By: Marcia Stephenson
• September 05, 2000 The Impact of Election Administration on the Legitimacy of Emerging Democracies: A New Research Agenda
  By: Jørgen Elklit, Andrew Reynolds
• July 05, 2000 Reshaping State-Society Relations Democratization in Southern and Eastern Europe
  By: Rafael Durán
• November 05, 1997 Liberals, Radicals, and Women's Citizenship in Chile, 1872-1930
  By: Erika Maza Valenzuela
• October 05, 1997 APEC beyond Economics: The Politics of APEC
  By: Brian L. Job, Frank Langdon
• August 05, 1997 Open Regionalism: Lessons from Latin America for East Asia
  By: Clark Winton Reynolds
• August 05, 1997 An ASEAN Perspective on APEC
  By: Yoji Akashi