Research

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Books:

                Ethnicity and Electoral Politics. (2007) Cambridge and New York:  Cambridge

                University Press.  (Chapters 4 and 6 reprinted in Sfera politicii, nr. 124 – 125, Anul

                XIV.)


Articles and chapters in peer reviewed journals and edited volumes:


                “Where are the Disgruntled Voters? Testing the Voter-Parties Relationship Implication

                of the Cartel Party Model." Forthcoming Party Politics.


                "Party Regulation in Eastern Europe and Latin America: The effect on minority representation and propensity for conflict." Forthcoming In Per Nordlund and Ben Reilly eds. Political Party Development/Regulation in Conflict Prone Democracies.


                “Divergence in Diversity?  The Dissimilar Effects of Cleavages on Electoral Politics in New Democracies.” (2007) American Journal of Political Science. 51(3):602-619.


                “Disunity in Diversity:  Party System Fragmentation and the Dynamic Effect of Ethnic Heterogeneity on Latin American Legislatures.” (2007, With Donna Lee Van Cott).  Latin American Research Review. Vol. 42(1):97-123.


                “Public Venture Capital and Party Institutionalization.”  (2005) Comparative Political Studies. 38(8):915-938.


                “Technological Development and Political Stability: Patenting In Latin America and the Caribbean”, (2005, with David M. Waguespack and Jeff Schroeder).  Research Policy. 34(10): 1570-1590.


                “Foreignness and the Diffusion of Ideas.” (2005, with David M. Waguespack).  Journal

                of Engineering and Technology Management. 22(1-2):31-50.


                “Stabilizing Party Systems and Excluding Segments of Society?  The Effects of

Formation Costs on Representation in Latin America.”  (2004) Studies in Comparative International Development. 39(3):3-28.


                “Institutionalizing the Party System.”  (2004) In Henry Carey ed.  Romania since 1989;

                Politics, Economics and Society.  (Lexington books.  Lanham: 2004.) 



Work in progress:


Book manuscripts:


Democracy At Risk? Political Competition, Electoral Institutions and Ethnic Conflict. (With Stephen Saideman and David Lanoue.)


Papers/chapters/grant proposals:


"Incompatibles Jarring, or Sparring of the Sacred and the Secular?  How Minority Religious Dimensions Affect a Groups’ Propensity for Access to Governing Coalitions." (With Nil Seda Şatana.) 


"Economic Policy and Relevant Ethnic Groups.” (With David Waguespack)


“Religion and Violence” (With Nil Seda Şatana.) 


"The Turnaround of Terror."


"Voters and Inequalities Under Conditions of Extra Constitutional Alternatives."