Publications

Book

Political Culture and Institutional Development in Nicaragua and Costa Rica: World Making in the Tropics crafts a synthetic approach to political culture by blending rationalist, structuralist, and culturalist theories. The book also deploys this synthetic approach to show how political-cultural factors have shaped political and economic development in two paradigmatic cases of failure and success. Cambridge University Press (2005). Book Prize: Choice Outstanding Academic Title (2006). 

Book Chapters and Articles

• Perspectives on Politics. Review of Mario Sznadjer and Luis Roniger, The Politics of Exile in Latin America (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009), forthcoming.

• “Costa Rica: Political Culture and Performance,” co-authored, forthcoming, in edited volume on Cultural Continuity and Change (Basic Books). 

• “Democracy in Central America,” in edited volume, Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner, eds., Latin America’s Struggle for Democracy (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008).

• Perspectives on Politics. Review of Frances Hagopian and Scott Mainwaring, eds., The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America: Advances and Setbacks (Cambridge University Press, 2005). June 2006.

• Political Science Quarterly. Review of David Slater's Geopolitics and the Post-colonial (Malden: Blackwell, 2004). Winter 2005-06.

• “Latin American Citizenship: Civic Microfoundations in Historical Perspective,” in Katherine Hite and Paola Cesarini eds., Authoritarian Legacies and Democratization in Latin America and Southern Europe. (Notre Dame Press, 2004). Blind review process.

• “The New Latin American Citizen: First-World Models and Third-Wave Products,” in Riordan Roett & Carol Wise, eds., Post-Stabilization Politics in Latin America: Competition, Transition, Collapse (Brookings Institution/Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003). Blind review process.

• “Reform and Counter-reform: the Path to Market in Hungary and Cuba,” Comparative Politics. Co-authored. January 2002.

• “Identity and Persuasion: How Nations Remember their Pasts and Make their Futures,” World Politics. April 2000.

• "The New Military Autonomy in Latin America," Journal of Democracy. Co-authored. October 1998.

• "Toy Countries," Political Science Quarterly. Review. Winter 1997-98.

• "Mistrust and Violence," Latin American Research Review. Review. Winter 1995.