2023. Who’s to blame for democratic backsliding: populists, presidents or dominant executives?. Democratization. 30(5): 815-835. (with Antonio Benasaglio Berlucchi) Link
2017. The Nationalization of Presidential Elections in the Americas. Electoral Studies. 47 (June):125-135. (with Eduardo Alemán) Link
2017. Why Preelectoral Coalitions in Presidential Systems? British Journal of Political Science 47(2): 391-411. Link
2016. Silencing Critics: When and How Presidents Restrict Media Freedom in Democracies. Comparative Political Studies 49(1): 36-77. (with Elizabeth A. Stein) Link
2015. Parties for Hire: How Particularistic Parties Influence Presidents’ Governing Strategies. Party Politics 21(4): 511–526. Link
2014. Programming Presidential Agendas: Partisan and Media Environments that Lead Presidents to Fight Crime and Corruption. Political Communication 31 (1): 25–52. (with Elizabeth A. Stein) Link
2013. Suffrage Extensions and Voting Patterns in Latin America: Is Mobilization a Source of Decay? Latin American Politics & Society 55 (4): 23–46. Link
2008. The Nationalization of Electoral Change in the Americas. Electoral Studies 27 (2): 193– 212. (with Eduardo Alemán) Link
(Supplementary appendixes and replication files are available below.)
2025. Theory of Pre-Electoral Coalitions. Encycolpedia of Comparative Political Science, compiled by the Japan Society of Comparative Politics. Maruzen Publishing. ISBN 978-4-621-30999-5. Link (Japanese, contact me for an English version)
2024. Democratic Backsliding and the Role of Populism (podcast episode). Rigorous Research, Real Impact. Waseda University. Link
2019. Book Review of Citizenship and Contemporary Direct Democracy by David Altman, Cambridge University Press, 2019. The Developing Economies 57(4). Link
2019. In Pursuit of Work-Life Balance in America and in Japan. Sankaku News No. 22, the newsletter of the Office for Promotion of Equality and Diversity at Waseda University. Link (Japanese), Link (English)
2018. Media Freedom Decline in Democracies: Lessons from Latin America. In "Symposium: Fake News and the Politics of Misinformation," edited by Matt Golder and Sona Golder. CP: Newsletter of the Comparative Politics Organized Section of the American Political Science Association 28(2): 44-49. Link
2017 February 16. Trump's war on the news media is serious. Just look at Latin America. Washington Post, Monkey Cage. (with Elizabeth A. Stein) Link
2017 May 3. Why Pre-Electoral Coalitions in Presidential Systems? Guest post, Presidential Power blog. Link