Research

Book

2014 Continuity Despite Change: The Politics of Labor Market Regulation in Latin America, Stanford University Press.

Articles & Book Chapters

2019. Matthew E. Carnes. Latin american labor regulation in the 21st century. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Oxford University Press. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1654

2018. John Thiede and Matthew E. Carnes. “Filling the Gaps in Civil Society: The Role of the Catholic Church in Latin American Democratization.” Journal of Religion and Society 20.

2018. Andrew Szarejko and Matthew E. Carnes. “Assessing an Undergraduate Curriculum: The Evolving Roles of Subfields, Methods, Ethics, and Writing for Government Majors.” PS: Political Science and Politics 51: 1.

2017. Matthew E. Carnes. “Contributions of Contemporary Political Science to an Understanding of the Common Good,” in Finn, Daniel, ed., Empirical Foundations of the Common Good: What Theology Can Learn from Social Science. Oxford University Press.

2017. Matthew E. Carnes. “Toward an Economy of Reconciliation.” Promotio Justitiae 124: 17-20. Published in English, Spanish, and French, and republished in Italian in La Civiltà Cattolica Nr. 4029.

2017. Matthew E. Carnes. “The Challenges of Formalizing Labor in Latin America.” Current History 116 (787): 43-48.

2016. Matthew E. Carnes and Isabela Mares. “Redefining Who’s ‘in’ and Who’s ‘out’: Explaining Preferences for Redistribution in Bolivia.” Journal of Development Studies 52 (11): 1647-1664. (Awarded the Best Paper Award at the Latin American Political Economy Network (REPAL) Conference, Santiago, Chile 2014 & Awarded the 2016 Dudley Sears Award for the Best Paper to Appear in Volume 52 of the Journal of Development Studies.)

2015 "Explaining the ‘Return of the State’ in Middle-Income Countries: EmploymentVulnerability, Income, and Preferences for Social Insurance in Latin America.” (with Isabela Mares) Politics & Society 43 (4): 525-550.

2015 “Value Coalitions in Policy Change: The Impact of Gendered Patterns of Work, Religion and Partisanship on Childcare Policy across German States” (with Cristina Andronescu). Journal of European Social Policy 25 (2): 159-174.

2014 “Coalitional Realignment and the Adoption of Non-Contributory Social Insurance Programs in Latin America.”(with Isabela Mares). Socio-Economic Review 12 (4): 695-722.

2014 “Hooking Workers and Hooking Votes: Enganche, Suffrage,and Labor Market Dualism in Latin America.” Latin American Politics and Society 56 (2): 93-114.

2013 “Measuring the Individual-Level Determinants of SocialInsurance Preferences: Survey Evidence from the 2008 Argentine Pension Nationalization.” (with Isabela Mares). Latin American Research Review 48 (3): 108-129.

2013 “Partisanship, Christianity, and Women in the Legislature: Determinants of Parental Leave Policy in U.S. States.” (with Sarah Williamson). Social Science Quarterly 94 (4): 1084-1101.

2009 “Social Policy in Developing Countries.” (with Isabela Mares). Annual Review of Political Science 12: 91-113.

2008 “Political Stability Under Uncertainty: Applying Bounded Rationality to the Study of Governance and Civil Conflict.” (with Neil Malhotra). British Journal of Political Science 38 (1): 45-64.

2007 “The Welfare State in Global Perspective.” (with Isabela Mares), in Carles Boix and Susan Stokes, eds., Handbook of Comparative Politics. New York: Oxford University Press.

Contributions to Edited Volumes & working papers series

2011 “Finanzas, desarrollo, pobreza y cooperación,” in Francisco Nieto, ed., Las relaciones interamericanas: Una visión hacia el futuro. Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia: Centro de Publicaciones – UPSA.

2009 “Institutionalizing Inequality: The Political Origins of Labor Codes in Latin America.” Kellogg Institute WorkingPaper # 363, University of Notre Dame. (December).

Book Reviews

2016 Review of Ernesto Calvo. 2014. Legislator Success in Fragmented Congresses in Argentina: Plurality Cartels, Minority Presidents, and Lawmaking (New York: Cambridge University Press). Reviewed in Perspectives on Politics 14: 1, 246-247.

2014 “How the Rich Get Richer.” Review of Piketty, Thomas. 2014. Capital in the Twenty First Century (Cambridge: Harvard Belknap). Reviewed in America, 18-25 August

2013 Review of Beramendi, Pablo. 2012. The Political Geography of Inequality: Regions and Redistribution (New York: Cambridge). Reviewed in Political Science Quarterly 128: 3 (Fall), 574-575.

Current Research Projects & Working Papers

“Explaining New Patterns in Family Leave Policies in Latin America: Partisanship, Religion, and Economic Change,” with Marisa Hawley.

“Filling the Gaps in Civil Society: The Role of the Catholic Church in Latin American Democratization,” with John Thiede.

“Proponent or Provider? Religion and Social Welfare in Latin America.”

“Making Labor Law Work: Reforming Legal Codes to Foster Growth and Inclusion in Latin America,” with Diana Kapiszewski, Lucas Ronconi, and Rodrigo Zarazaga.

“Preferences for Non-Contributory Social Policies,” with Santiago López-Cariboni.