Fernando Bizzarro
Fernando Bizzarro
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I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Boston College.
My research in comparative politics and political economy explores the nature, causes, and consequences of democracy and political parties, with a substantive focus on Latin America.
I received my PhD from Harvard's Department of Government in 2023 and was a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale's Jackson School of International Affairs (2023-2024)
Email: bizzarrf@bc.edu
Address: Carney Hall 223, 281 Beacon St, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
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Works in Progress
Works in Progress
When Parties? Inequality, Personalism, and Party-based Democracies
The Parties voters want: programmatic strong but organizationally weak [under review]
It doesn’t kill them nor does it make them stronger: Personalism and regime change
Executive Takeovers in Latin America. With S. Mainwaring [under review]
Does democracy cause inclusive growth? With Z. Xu and I. Shapiro
Accountability by Law or by Elites? Experimental Evidence from Brazil’s Conviction of Jair Bolsonaro. With A. O'Donohue and J. V. Pereira
The Stability Secret: Coalitional presidentialism and the survival of democracy in Latin America. With C. Pereira
Published Works
Published Works
Forthcoming. "Historical Alternatives and the Future of the Mass Party". Critical Sociology.
2023. "Free public transit and voter turnout". Electoral Studies, 86. With R. Pereira, R. S. Vieira, R. J. Barbosa, R. Dahis, D. T. Ferreira.
2023. "Political Parties and Party Systems". In Fernandes, J., and P. Magalhaes, and A. Costa Pinto. Oxford Handbook of Portuguese Politics. Oxford, United Kingdom. With M. Pratas Fernandes
2020. "Outcomes after Transitions in Third Wave Democracies." In Berg-Schlosser et al.. The SAGE Handbook of Political Science, London, United Kingdom: SAGE Publications. With S. Mainwaring.
2020. "Data Validation". In Coppedge, M. et al. Varieties of Democracy: Measuring Two Centuries of Political Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. With B. Seim, M. Bernhard, M. Coppedge, J. Gerring, S. I. Lindberg, M. Maguire, D. Pemstein, J. Teorell, and E. Tzelgov.
2019. "The Fates Of Third-Wave Democracies." Journal of Democracy 30(1): 99-113. With S. Mainwaring.
2019. "Los destinos de las democracias de tercera ola" Revista Latinoamericana de Politica Comparada 15: 79-97. With S. Mainwaring.
2018. "The Uneven Institutionalization of a Party System: Brazil." 2018. In Mainwaring, S. Party Systems in Latin America: Institutionalization, Decay, and Collapse. Cambridge, United Kingdom; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 164-200. With S. Mainwaring and T. Power
2018. "Party System Institutionalization: Cross-National Correlates." In Mainwaring, S. Party Systems in Latin America: Institutionalization, Decay, and Collapse. Cambridge, United Kingdom; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 102-33. With S. Mainwaring.
2018. "Party System Institutionalization, Decay, and Collapse." n Mainwaring, S. Party Systems in Latin America: Institutionalization, Decay, and Collapse. Cambridge, United Kingdom; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, , 17-33. With S. Mainwaring and Ana Petrova.
2018. "Party Strength and Economic Growth." World Politics 70(2): 275-320. With J. Gerring, C.H. Knutsen, A. Hicken, M. Bernard, M. Coppedge, S. Lindberg.
2018. "Party System Institutionalization in Democracies". In Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science, ed. S. Maisel. New York: Oxford University Press. With S. Mainwaring, M. V. De Negri, and A. Watanabe.
2017. "Variedades da Democracia no Brasil", Opiniao Publica 23(1): 1-42. With M. Coppedge.
2012. "Contexto e Competicao na Politica Paulista", Dados 55(1): 119-171. W. R. Meneguello.
Teaching
Teaching
Latin America Politics [Syllabus]
Politics of Inequality [Syllabus]
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