Browsing by Author "Madrid, Raul"
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Beyond the balance sheet : performance, participation, and regime support in Latin America
Rhodes-Purdy, Matthew Henry; 0000-0002-5791-3332 (2016-05)Most studies on regime support focus on performance, or policy outputs, as the principal causal variable. This study challenges this conventional wisdom by focusing on two countries where performance and support do not ... -
Bolivia Electoral Dataests, 1985-2005
Corte Nacional Electoral de Bolivia; Madrid, Raul; Mustillo, Tom (2012-09-10) -
Careful crackdowns : human rights and campaigning on public security in Latin America
Uang, Randy Sunwin (2012-05)Crime and violence are regularly seen as being ripe for politicians to turn into campaign issues and win votes. This study argues, in contrast, that success on public security is not so automatic: human rights values ... -
Democratic governance and the courts : the political sources of the judicialization of public policy in Argentina
Ryan, Daniel Eduardo (2011-08)The purpose of this dissertation is to examine under what political conditions public policy issues are likely to become judicialized in Argentina. This study shows that the most widespread theoretical explanation, the ... -
Does prioritizing education yield better learning outcomes? Evidence from Latin America
Apfeld, Brendan Burns; 0000-0002-6506-2363 (2016-05)What effect does government prioritization of education have on education outcomes? I argue that when governments prioritize education, as measured by levels of relative spending and the average tenure of education ministry ... -
Ecuador Electoral Dataset-Legislative and Presidential Election Results, 1979-2006
Mustillo, Tom; Madrid, Raul; Consejo Nacional Electoral (2012-07-05) -
From competition to monopoly : establishing party dominance in post-communist Russia
White, Allison Christine (2014-12)What explains dominant party emergence and strength and opposition party weakness in Russia? Important structural underpinnings of party dominance, namely a weak party system, were present in Russia even in the 1990s, but ... -
Guatemala Electoral Dataset-Legislative and Presidential Election Results, 1985-1999
Madrid, Raul (2011) -
LLILAS Faculty Book Series: "The Rise of Ethnic Politics in Latin America"
Madrid, Raul (2012-09-19) -
Peru Electoral Dataset-Legislative and Presidential Election Results (includes Census data), 1980-2007
Madrid, Raul (2012-09-10) -
Securing territory : state interests and the implementation of ethnic land rights in the Americas
Altamirano Rayo, Giorleny D.Why do states implement ethnic communal property rights (ECPR) in some places, and at certain times, but not others? Conventional wisdom holds that transnational activism drives ECPR implementation. Other commonly held ... -
Technocracy under democracy : assessing the political autonomy of experts in Latin America
Dargent, Eduardo (2012-05)The important role that technocrats play in Latin America has stimulated a lively theoretical debate about experts’ influence in policy making and their effective independence from other sociopolitical players, especially ...