Job Title

Research Professor

Organization

Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas

Country

Mexico

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

Book (selected)

Making Constitutions: Presidents, Parties, and Institutional Choice in Latin America. New York:Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Articles (selected)

“Political Parties and Institutional Design: Explaining Constitutional Choice in Latin
America,” British Journal of Political Science, publicación pendiente, 2008.

“Minority Presidents and Democratic Performance in Latin America,” Latin American
Politics and Society, Vol. 48, No. 3, Otoño 2006, pp. 63-92.

“Choosing How to Choose Presidents: Parties, Military Rulers, and Presidential
Elections in Latin America,” The Journal of Politics, Vol. 68, No. 2, Mayo 2006, pp.
421-33.

“Government Capacities and Policy Making by Decree in Latin America: The Cases of
Brazil and Argentina,” Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 37, Junio 2004, pp. 531-62.
with the collaboration of José Antonio Aguilar) “Liberalism and Emergency Powers in
Latin America,” Cardozo Law Review, Mayo 2000, pp. 1797-1824.

(with the collaboration of José Antonio Aguilar) “Rethinking the Legacy of the Liberal
State in Latin America: The Cases of Argentina (1853-1912) and Mexico (1857-1910),”
Journal of Latin American Studies, Mayo 2000, pp. 361-97.

“Constitution-Making and Institutional Design: The Transformations of
Presidentialism in Argentina,” Archives Européennes de Sociologie, New York, Vol.
XL, No 2, Otoño 1999, pp. 193-233.

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