Barry Steven Levitt
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 841539 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Barry Steven Levitt |
| PRENOMES | Barry Steven |
| SOBRENOME | Levitt |
| ASSINATURA | LEVITT B S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Florida International University |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-1580-8151 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Public Support for Disaster Risk Reduction
Studies in public policy have suggested that disasters can potentially serve as “focusing events”, catalyzing significant changes to disaster risk reduction (DRR) policies and practices. How and why this effect does (or does not) ensue, and for how long, are less well understood. This article tests hypotheses about the nature and duration of the impact of a major hazard event on public support for DRR policies and their implementation. It does so…
Disasters and corruption
Disaster corruption is a vexing problem, damaging state legitimacy and exacerbating human suffering. Mexico has a history of both major disasters and persistently high levels of corruption. A magnitude 7.1 earthquake in 2017 provided an opportunity to study change over time in expectations and tolerance of corruption in disaster relief. Twenty years earlier, Mexico City residents expected, on average, essentially three out of 10 hypothetical truc…
Discrimination and the distrust of democratic institutions in Latin America
This article analyzes the impact of ethnic and racial discrimination on political culture in six Latin American countries. Does experiencing discrimination alter a person's attitudes toward politics? If so, how? The analysis assesses the impact of discrimination on citizens' confidence in government – especially their trust in key liberal-democratic institutions such as legislatures and high courts. It finds that victims of discrimination distrus…
Personalist Parties in the Third Wave of Democratization
In this article, we deploy the concept of personalism in a comparative study of two T hird W ave democracies, P eru and B ulgaria. What factors explain the prevalence and success of personalistic parties? We analyze in rich detail the personalist parties that emerged in P eru and B ulgaria, focusing on the role of leaders and on parties' organizational development (or lack thereof). Adopting an institutionalist approach, we assess the impact of p…
Toward a Theory of Personalist Parties
Personalistic leadership—the exercise of authority vested in influential individuals based on personal attributes rather than organizational role—is a political phenomenon not limited by time or space. But what do we mean when we say that a political leader or a party is “personalistic”? While the theme of personalist leadership is not absent from political analyses, there is a lack of scholarly consensus on core elements of the concept itself. T…
Introduction to the Symposium
Minority Group Strategies for Endogenous Institutional Change
Political institutions are socially constructed rules manifesting the preferences and strategic interactions of key actors at decisive moments. We investigate a contentious episode of institutional change in a divided society: the adoption of direct presidential elections in Turkey, approved by referendum in October 2007. Process tracing and regression analyses demonstrate that Kurdish politicians and voters in Turkey supported this reform. Howev…
Institutional Trust and Congressional Autonomy in Latin America
What role do Latin Americans expect legislatures to play vis-à-vis the executive? How do expectations shape political trust in a developing democracy like Peru? This article introduces new indicators gauging citizens’ current perceptions of, and idealized expectations for, the institutional independence of their elected assemblies. It uses 2007 data to test the hypothesis that the gap between the two indicators – the “legislative autonomy gap” – …
A Desultory Defense of Democracy
This article evaluates the effectiveness of OAS mechanisms for safeguarding democracy through multilateral diplomacy, what some scholars have dubbed the interamerican defense of democracy regime. Drawing on a range of international relations theories, this study derives competing hypotheses about member states' responses to democratic crises in the Americas. It then analyzes all instances in which a collective response-that is, an application of …
Political Culture and the Science of Politics
The Soul Of Latin America: The Cultural And Political Tradition. By Howard J. Wiarda. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. 417. $35.00 cloth.) Latin America At The End Of Politics. By Forrest D. Colburn. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp 152. $35.00 cloth, $14.95 paper.) The Internationalization Of Palace Wars: Lawyers, Economists, And The Contest To Transform Latin American States. By Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth. (Chi…
Power, Conf1ict and the Environment
Toward a Theory of Personalist Parties
Personalistic leadership—the exercise of authority vested in influential individuals based on personal attributes rather than organizational role—is a political phenomenon not limited by time or space. But what do we mean when we say that a political leader or a party is “personalistic”? While the theme of personalist leadership is not absent from political analyses, there is a lack of scholarly consensus on core elements of the concept itself. T…
A Desultory Defense of Democracy
This article evaluates the effectiveness of OAS mechanisms for safeguarding democracy through multilateral diplomacy, what some scholars have dubbed the interamerican defense of democracy regime. Drawing on a range of international relations theories, this study derives competing hypotheses about member states' responses to democratic crises in the Americas. It then analyzes all instances in which a collective response-that is, an application of …
Discrimination and the distrust of democratic institutions in Latin America
This article analyzes the impact of ethnic and racial discrimination on political culture in six Latin American countries. Does experiencing discrimination alter a person's attitudes toward politics? If so, how? The analysis assesses the impact of discrimination on citizens' confidence in government – especially their trust in key liberal-democratic institutions such as legislatures and high courts. It finds that victims of discrimination distrus…
Disasters and corruption
Disaster corruption is a vexing problem, damaging state legitimacy and exacerbating human suffering. Mexico has a history of both major disasters and persistently high levels of corruption. A magnitude 7.1 earthquake in 2017 provided an opportunity to study change over time in expectations and tolerance of corruption in disaster relief. Twenty years earlier, Mexico City residents expected, on average, essentially three out of 10 hypothetical truc…
Personalist Parties in the Third Wave of Democratization
In this article, we deploy the concept of personalism in a comparative study of two T hird W ave democracies, P eru and B ulgaria. What factors explain the prevalence and success of personalistic parties? We analyze in rich detail the personalist parties that emerged in P eru and B ulgaria, focusing on the role of leaders and on parties' organizational development (or lack thereof). Adopting an institutionalist approach, we assess the impact of p…
Institutional Trust and Congressional Autonomy in Latin America
What role do Latin Americans expect legislatures to play vis-à-vis the executive? How do expectations shape political trust in a developing democracy like Peru? This article introduces new indicators gauging citizens’ current perceptions of, and idealized expectations for, the institutional independence of their elected assemblies. It uses 2007 data to test the hypothesis that the gap between the two indicators – the “legislative autonomy gap” – …
Minority Group Strategies for Endogenous Institutional Change
Political institutions are socially constructed rules manifesting the preferences and strategic interactions of key actors at decisive moments. We investigate a contentious episode of institutional change in a divided society: the adoption of direct presidential elections in Turkey, approved by referendum in October 2007. Process tracing and regression analyses demonstrate that Kurdish politicians and voters in Turkey supported this reform. Howev…
Power, Conf1ict and the Environment
Political Culture and the Science of Politics
The Soul Of Latin America: The Cultural And Political Tradition. By Howard J. Wiarda. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. Pp. 417. $35.00 cloth.) Latin America At The End Of Politics. By Forrest D. Colburn. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp 152. $35.00 cloth, $14.95 paper.) The Internationalization Of Palace Wars: Lawyers, Economists, And The Contest To Transform Latin American States. By Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth. (Chi…
A Desultory Defense of Democracy
This article evaluates the effectiveness of OAS mechanisms for safeguarding democracy through multilateral diplomacy, what some scholars have dubbed the interamerican defense of democracy regime. Drawing on a range of international relations theories, this study derives competing hypotheses about member states' responses to democratic crises in the Americas. It then analyzes all instances in which a collective response-that is, an application of …
Institutional Trust and Congressional Autonomy in Latin America
What role do Latin Americans expect legislatures to play vis-à-vis the executive? How do expectations shape political trust in a developing democracy like Peru? This article introduces new indicators gauging citizens’ current perceptions of, and idealized expectations for, the institutional independence of their elected assemblies. It uses 2007 data to test the hypothesis that the gap between the two indicators – the “legislative autonomy gap” – …
Minority Group Strategies for Endogenous Institutional Change
Political institutions are socially constructed rules manifesting the preferences and strategic interactions of key actors at decisive moments. We investigate a contentious episode of institutional change in a divided society: the adoption of direct presidential elections in Turkey, approved by referendum in October 2007. Process tracing and regression analyses demonstrate that Kurdish politicians and voters in Turkey supported this reform. Howev…
Personalist Parties in the Third Wave of Democratization
In this article, we deploy the concept of personalism in a comparative study of two T hird W ave democracies, P eru and B ulgaria. What factors explain the prevalence and success of personalistic parties? We analyze in rich detail the personalist parties that emerged in P eru and B ulgaria, focusing on the role of leaders and on parties' organizational development (or lack thereof). Adopting an institutionalist approach, we assess the impact of p…
Toward a Theory of Personalist Parties
Personalistic leadership—the exercise of authority vested in influential individuals based on personal attributes rather than organizational role—is a political phenomenon not limited by time or space. But what do we mean when we say that a political leader or a party is “personalistic”? While the theme of personalist leadership is not absent from political analyses, there is a lack of scholarly consensus on core elements of the concept itself. T…
Introduction to the Symposium
Discrimination and the distrust of democratic institutions in Latin America
This article analyzes the impact of ethnic and racial discrimination on political culture in six Latin American countries. Does experiencing discrimination alter a person's attitudes toward politics? If so, how? The analysis assesses the impact of discrimination on citizens' confidence in government – especially their trust in key liberal-democratic institutions such as legislatures and high courts. It finds that victims of discrimination distrus…
Disasters and corruption
Disaster corruption is a vexing problem, damaging state legitimacy and exacerbating human suffering. Mexico has a history of both major disasters and persistently high levels of corruption. A magnitude 7.1 earthquake in 2017 provided an opportunity to study change over time in expectations and tolerance of corruption in disaster relief. Twenty years earlier, Mexico City residents expected, on average, essentially three out of 10 hypothetical truc…
Public Support for Disaster Risk Reduction
Studies in public policy have suggested that disasters can potentially serve as “focusing events”, catalyzing significant changes to disaster risk reduction (DRR) policies and practices. How and why this effect does (or does not) ensue, and for how long, are less well understood. This article tests hypotheses about the nature and duration of the impact of a major hazard event on public support for DRR policies and their implementation. It does so…
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