Jose Antonio Cheibub
Job Title
Associate Professor
Organization
University of Illinois
Country
Area of Expertise
- Conflict
- Gender and constitutions
- Diversity
- Customary governance/legal pluralism
- Human rights
- Judicial system design
- Minority issues
- Participation
- Power sharing (horizontal/vertical)
- Religion
- Security sector
Publications
Books:
Presidentialism, Parliamentarism and Democracy. Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Democracy Sourcebook. MIT Press, September 2003. Co-editor with Robert Dahl and Ian Shapiro.
Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Material Well-Being in the World, 1950-1990. Cambridge University Press, 2000. With Adam Przeworski, Fernando Limongi, and Michael Alvarez.
Journal Articles
“Presidentialism, Electoral Identifiability, and Budget Balances in Democratic Systems.” American Political Science Review 100(3):335-350, August 2006.
“Government Coalitions and Legislative Success Under Parliamentarism and Presidentialism.” British Journal of Political Science 34:565-87, October 2004. With Adam Przeworski and Sebastian Saiegh.
“Minority Governments, Deadlock Situations, and the Survival of Presidential Democracies.” Comparative Political Studies 35(3):284-312, April 2002.
“Governos de Coalizão nas Democracias Presidencialistas e Parlamentaristas.” Dados 45(2), June 2002. With Adam Przeworski and Sebastian Saiegh.
“Democratic Institutions and Regime Survival: Parliamentarism and Presidentialism Reconsidered.” Annual Review of Political Science 2002. With Fernando Limongi.
“Political Regimes and the Extractive Capacity of Governments: Taxation in Democracies and Dictatorships.” World Politics 50(3), April 1998.
“Democracia, Eleições e Responsabilidade Política." Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais 12:49-61, October 1997, São Paulo, Brazil. With Adam Przeworsk.
"Classifying Political Regimes." Studies in Comparative International Development 31(2):3-36, 1996. With Adam Przeworski, Michael Alvarez and Fernando Limongi.
"What Makes Democracies Endure?" Journal of Democracy 7(1):39-55, January 1996. With Adam Przeworski, Michael Alvarez and Fernando Limongi. Published in Spanish Agora 3(5):67-87, 1996; in Portuguese in Lua Nova: Revista de Cultura e Política 40/41:113-136, 1997; in Polish in Civitas (Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences).
"Mobilizing and Sustaining Collective Action in the Mexican Revolution." Politics and Society 23(2):243- 258, June 1995.
"Why Do Governments Grow? A Comparative Analysis of 18 Latin American Countries." Dados: Revista de Ciências Sociais 33(3), 1990. Rio de Janeiro, IUPERJ.
Book Chapters
“Presidentialism and Democratic Performance.” In Andrew Reynolds, ed. Constitutional Design: Institutional Design, Conflict Management, and Democracy in the Late Twentieth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. pp. 104-140.
“Democracy, Elections, and Accountability for Economic Outcomes.” In Adam Przeworski, Susan C. Stokes, and Bernard Manin, eds. Democracy and Accountability. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. With Adam Przeworski. pp. 222-250.
"Political Regimes, Government Expenditure and Economic Growth" in Albert Breton, Gianlugi Galeotti, Pierre Salmon and Ronald Wintrobe, eds. Understanding Democracy: Economic and Political Perspectives. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. With Adam Przeworski. pp.107-124.
"Culture and Democracy." World Culture Report 1997. UNESCO. With Adam Przeworski, and Fernando Limongi. Also published as “Democracy and Political Culture” in Metapolitica 8(3):52-69, 2004.
Other Publications:
“BRAZIL: Candidate-Centred PR in a Presidential System” in International Handbook of Electoral Systems, 2005 edition. Stockholm, Sweden.
“Systems of Government: Parliamentarism and Presidentialism.” Briefing Paper for the Constitutional Drafting Commission of Afghanistan. Center for International Cooperation, New York University, 2003.
Book Review: Markets and Democracy in Latin America: Conflict or Convergence? Philip Oxhorn and Pamela K. Starr, eds. Canadian Review of Political Science 33(1), March 2000.
“Data Optimism in Comparative Politics: The Importance of Being Earnest.” APSA-CP: Newsletter of the APSA Organized Section in Comparative Politics. Summer 1999.
"Democracy and Property Rights: Is There a Link?" Working Papers on Democracy and Development #5. Chicago Center on Democracy, University of Chicago, 1995.
"O Voto do Analfabeto: Limites de Participaçao e Cidadania." Textos IDESP. Sao Paulo, Instituto de Estudos Econômicos, Sociais e Políticos de Sao Paulo, 1988.
Capacidade de Governo no Serviço de Transporte Público: O Caso de São Paulo. São Paulo, IDESP, 1986. Série Monográfica no.3.
"Educação e Cidadania: A Exclusão Política dos Analfabetos no Brasil." Cuadernos de Capel, no.4. San José, Costa Rica, Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, Centro de Asesoria y Promocion Electoral. Also published in: Textos IDESP, no.9. Sao Paulo, IDESP. With Maria Tereza Sadek.