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The Weatherhead Center has developed a presence on the Internet that, to a growing readership, is playing a significant role in the projection of Harvard scholarship on international affairs. The site includes: faculty research available through categorical fields of inquiry; searches by author, subject, title or date of publication; Working Papers selected for online distribution based on their relevance to contemporary issues in international affairs; In the News links to op-ed and other pieces written by or about the Center’s faculty associates; and recent books by faculty associates, including editorial summaries. The Center is always adding to the collection of published journal articles available on its site and responding to the interests of Center faculty and other users in making the site an indispensable scholarly tool.

Below are a selection of our most recently uploaded publications.

Informal Institutions and Comparative Politics: A Research Agenda: by Gretchen Helmke and Steven Levitsky; Mainstream comparative research on political institutions focuses primarily on formal rules. Yet in many contexts, informal insti–tutions, ranging from bureaucratic and legislative norms to...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: December 2004 More

Democracy Without Parties? Political Parties and Regime Change in Fujimori's Peru: by Levitsky, Steven; Political parties are critical to Latin American democracy. This was demonstrated in Peru, where an atomized, candidate–centered party system developed after Alberto Fujimori?s 1992 presidential...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: November 2003 More

Explaining Populist Party Adaptation in Latin America: by Levitsky, Steven; This article uses a two–level framework to explain variation in Latin American populist parties? responses to the neoliberal challenge of the 1980s and 1990s.First,it examines the incentives for...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: October 2003 More

From Labor Politics to Machine Politics: The Transformation of Party-Union Linkages in Argentine Peronism, 1983?1999: by Levitsky, Steven; The Argentine (Peronist) Justicialista Party (PJ)** underwent a far–reaching coalitional transformation during the 1980s and 1990s. Party reformers dismantled Peronism?s traditional mechanisms of...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: October 2003 More

Argentina Weathers the Storm: by Levitsky, Steven; The events of December 2001 seemed to transform Argentina?s international status from poster child to basket case. Throughout the 1990s, Argentina had been widely hailed as a case of successful...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: October 2003 More

We, the Peoples? Constitutionalizing the European Union: by Skach, Cindy; This article reviews arguments in favour of a formal, written constitution for Europe, and concludes with a better suggestion – a Basic European Law. The article also criticizes the wholehearted...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: March 2005 More

Symposium: Discourse and Content Analysis: by Herrera, Yoshiko Margaret; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: March 2004 More

Virtual Kinship, Real Estate, and Diaspora Formation - The Man Lineage Revisited (a Presidential Address to the Association for: by Watson, James L.; Unlike our historian friends, anthropologists do not have the luxury of drawing a line in the sands of time and declaring a closure date for our research. Ethnography never ends. Even the demise of...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: November 2004 More

Stable Democracy and Good Governance in Divided Societies: Do Power-Sharing Institutions Work?: by Norris, Pippa; Consociational theory suggests that power–sharing institutions have many important consequences, not least that they are most likely to facilitate accommodation and cooperation among leadership...; Publication Type: Conference Paper; Published Date: January 2005 More

God, Guns, and Gays: Religion and Politics in the US and Western Europe: by Norris, Pippa; This paper seeks to explain the continuing strength of religious values and the vitality of spiritual life in the United States compared with many other rich nations. Part I documents these patterns...; Publication Type: Book Chapter; Published Date: September 2005 More

The 'New Cleavage' Thesis and the Social Basis of Radical Right Support: by Norris, Pippa; The rise of the radical right is open to multiple interpretations. The question addressed in this paper is whether many of these parties have fostered an enduring social base among core voters and,...; Published Date: September 2004 More

Acts of Faith: Churches and Political Engagement: by David E. Campbell; Many observers suggest that white evangelical Protestant Churches serve to mobilize their members into politics, while others argue that they encourage withdrawal from political life. This paper...; Publication Type: Published Paper; Published Date: June 2004 More

Private Debt Composition and the Political Economy of IMF Lending: by Copelovitch, Mark; Over the last two decades, the International Monetary Fund has provided developing countries with over $400 billion in conditional loans, ranging in size from less than $10 million to over $30...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: October 2004 More

External Opening and the World Trading System: by Frankel, Jeffrey; Countries can still reap substantial economic benefits from external opening – an estimated 0.3 % increase in income over 20 years for each .01 increase in the ratio of trade to GDP....; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: October 2004 More

Is There an African Curse?: by Zoel, Jean-Louis; Africa is a puzzle to economists. Why is it so unsuccessful in partaking of development? In short, is there an African curse? This paper argues the answer is 'no'. Africa?s dismal economic...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: September 2004 More

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