Karen L Remmer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 694596 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Karen L Remmer |
| NOMBRES | Karen L |
| APELLIDO | Remmer |
| FIRMA | REMMER K L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of New Mexico |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7000-7839 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 49 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1178 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1976 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 19 |
Stability and change in party preferences
Investment Treaty Arbitration in Latin America
This study analyzes variations in the incidence of state involvement in investment treaty arbitration in Latin America and the Caribbean over the 1987–2014 period. Its main contributions are fourfold. First, by focusing on the balance of incentives and opportunities facing political leaders and foreign investors, the study establishes a new basis for understanding the reasons actors opt for the risks and uncertainties of international arbitration…
The Reputational Impact of Investor-State Disputes
To what extent do alleged violations of international commitments damage state reputation? This article explore this question with specific reference to investor-state disputes arising under the protection of international investment agreements. Its main contributions are threefold. First, building on the political institutions literature, the study places the theoretical importance of information about the rules of the game, and the actions of t…
Exogenous Shocks and Democratic Accountability
This study attempts to contribute to the growing debate over democratic accountability by focusing on the electoral impact of natural disasters and economic crises in the Caribbean. Although largely ignored by political science, the polities in the region share a long history of democratic governance as well as extreme vulnerability to adverse weather conditions and global economic fluctuations. The Caribbean thus offers unusually fertile opportu…
The Rise of Leftist– Populist Governance in Latin America
Over the past decade the contours of political party competition in Latin America have been dramatically altered by an upsurge of support for leftist–populist parties and the related weakening of established parties on the center and right end of the political spectrum. Drawing on both aggregate and individual-level evidence, this article explores the roots of this swing of the political pendulum. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, which attrib…
Why do small states have big governments
Building on the literature on public finance, this article explores the consequences of political scale for government spending. The central argument is that the tendency for small political units to have big governments is not merely the result of economies of scale in the provision of public goods, but a reflection of the greater pressures for public spending faced by politicians in smaller and more homogeneous political units. The importance o…
Political Scale and Electoral Turnout
This article attempts to bring the politics of scale back into the study of comparative politics. Explicitly focusing on the question of electoral turnout in the less industrialized world, it explores the impact of variations in community size relative to other influences on citizen participation. The findings, which draw on both aggregate and individual-level data at the subnational level of analysis, offer considerable evidence that electoral p…
The Politics of Institutional Change
Building on the growing body of research on political institutions, this article explores the causes of electoral reform, with specific reference to Latin America. What factors account for the extensive array of electoral reforms adopted in the region since the return to democracy? How are shifting patterns of political representation related to institutional change? In addressing these questions, I develop an account of electoral reform that pla…
The Political Economy of Patronage
Under what conditions do politicians emphasize patronage allocations over the provision of public goods? Building upon research on democratic policy management, this paper aims to improve our understanding of patronage politics by focusing upon the political incentives influencing the ability and willingness of politicians to target public sector allocations to political supporters. Drawing upon data on spending priorities at the provincial level…
Political Decentralization and Electoral Accountability
To what extent does public support for subnational officials fluctuate in response to local rather than national performance? Are the policy failures of subnational officials reliably punished by voters? Drawing upon both individual and aggregate level data, this article attempts to shed new light on these questions about the politics of decentralization by exploring electoral outcomes and public opinion at the subnational level in Argentina. Con…
Does Foreign Aid Promote the Expansion of Government
Building on the literature on public finance, I seek to advance our understanding of variations in government size by exploring the impact of official development assistance on fiscal policy. I hypothesize that foreign aid operates in accordance with the “flypaper effect,” systematically generating incentives and opportunities for the expansion of government spending. Results from a time‐series cross‐sectional regression analysis of growth in gov…
Subnational Electoral Choice
Are the policy failures of subnational officials reliably punished by voters, or do subnational elections instead pivot around national trends? This study attempts to shed new light on these questions by exploring subnational elections in the Argentine context. Building on a modified version of the referendum-voting model, our analysis suggests that the fate of candidates in both national and subnational elections is shaped by the performance of …
The Politics of Economic Policy and Performance in Latin America
This study explores variations in macroeconomic policy and performance in contemporary Latin America on the basis of a theoretical model that emphasizes the complex interplay of partisan control of the government, labor strength, and electoral competition. The plausibility of the model is assessed on the basis of a cross-national time series analysis of economic policy choice and performance in nineteen nations. Contrary to the view that internat…
The Subnational Politics of Economic Adjustment
Existing research has failed to address the impact of subnational politics on economic adjustment. This article attempts to fill this gap by outlining theoretical reasons for anticipating policy divergences across levels of government and by offering three hypotheses to account for variation at the subnational level. The authors explore these ideas on the basis of the Argentine experience. The study traces the impact of subnational policy on Arge…
The politics of neoliberal economic reform in South America, 1980–1994
Does Democracy Promote Interstate Cooperation? Lessons from the Mercosur Region
A rapidly growing body of research suggests that democracy enhances prospects for the peaceful settlement of interstate conflicts. To what extent can democracy also be linked with increased international cooperation? Building upon the literature on political cooperation as well as recent discussions of the "democratic peace," this study offers a plausibility probe of the hypothesis that democracy increases the likelihood of interstate agreement. …
Theoretical Decay and Theoretical Development
Research on the less industrialized regions of the world has undergone major changes in terms of theoretical rigor, methodological sophistication, and the diversification of analytical approaches since the publication of Samuel P. Huntingdon's essay, “Political Development and Political Decay,” inWorld Politicsin 1965. Yet more than three decades later, comparativists are rediscovering political institutions, highlighting the originality of Hunti…
The Sustainability of Political Democracy
Recent literature emphasizes the fragility of newly emerging democracies and the importance of economic performance to their survival. The analysis reevaluates this conventional wisdom and tests a theoretical alternative that takes into account the differential strengths and weaknesses of democracy and authoritarianism as well as institutional variations among democratic regimes. South American data for the post-1944 period form the empirical bas…
New Theoretical Perspectives on Democratization
Other books in review
Approaches to the Study of the Military in Latin America
The Political Economy of Elections in Latin America, 1980-1991
The process of political democratization in Latin America during the 1980s created a rare opportunity to explore the political economy of elections outside of the North Atlantic basin. Using interrupted time-series analysis, I explore the impact of elections on macroeconomic performance in eight Latin American nations. The findings indicate that macroeconomic performance has fluctuated with the electoral calendar but that contrary to the traditio…
The process of democratization in Latin America
Military Rule in Latin America
New Wine or Old Bottlenecks? The Study of Latin American Democracy
The Political Impact of Economic Crisis in Latin America in the 1980s
Research on the political implications of economic conditions is separated into two relatively distinct bodies of literature. I bridge the theoretical gap between them by examining the effects of economic crisis on electoral outcomes in Latin America from 1982 to 1990. An analysis of 21 competitive elections indicates that crisis conditions undermine support for incumbents and provoke high levels of electoral volatility but without necessarily fo…
Does Foreign Aid Promote the Expansion of Government
Building on the literature on public finance, I seek to advance our understanding of variations in government size by exploring the impact of official development assistance on fiscal policy. I hypothesize that foreign aid operates in accordance with the “flypaper effect,” systematically generating incentives and opportunities for the expansion of government spending. Results from a time‐series cross‐sectional regression analysis of growth in gov…
Democracy and Economic Crisis
The debt crisis has raised serious concerns about the future of democratic governance in Latin America. The prevailing assumption is not merely that economic decline undercuts prospects for democratic consolidation; because of their vulnerability to popular political pressures, democracies—particularly new democracies—have been seen as incapable of mounting effective policy responses to critical economic challenges. A comparative study of policy …
The Politics of Economic Stabilization
During the late 1970s authoritarian rule in Latin America began to give way to processes of political liberalization and democratization. The debt crisis of the early 1980s accelerated this trend. Under the weight of crippling external financial obligations, the region slid into its worst recession since the 1930s. Widespread unemployment, plummeting living standards, acute shortages of foreign exchange, declining investment, and severe inflation…
The Political Economy of Elections in Latin America, 1980-1991
The process of political democratization in Latin America during the 1980s created a rare opportunity to explore the political economy of elections outside of the North Atlantic basin. Using interrupted time-series analysis, I explore the impact of elections on macroeconomic performance in eight Latin American nations. The findings indicate that macroeconomic performance has fluctuated with the electoral calendar but that contrary to the traditio…
The Political Economy of Patronage
Under what conditions do politicians emphasize patronage allocations over the provision of public goods? Building upon research on democratic policy management, this paper aims to improve our understanding of patronage politics by focusing upon the political incentives influencing the ability and willingness of politicians to target public sector allocations to political supporters. Drawing upon data on spending priorities at the provincial level…
The Politics of Institutional Change
Building on the growing body of research on political institutions, this article explores the causes of electoral reform, with specific reference to Latin America. What factors account for the extensive array of electoral reforms adopted in the region since the return to democracy? How are shifting patterns of political representation related to institutional change? In addressing these questions, I develop an account of electoral reform that pla…
The Subnational Politics of Economic Adjustment
Existing research has failed to address the impact of subnational politics on economic adjustment. This article attempts to fill this gap by outlining theoretical reasons for anticipating policy divergences across levels of government and by offering three hypotheses to account for variation at the subnational level. The authors explore these ideas on the basis of the Argentine experience. The study traces the impact of subnational policy on Arge…
Political Decentralization and Electoral Accountability
To what extent does public support for subnational officials fluctuate in response to local rather than national performance? Are the policy failures of subnational officials reliably punished by voters? Drawing upon both individual and aggregate level data, this article attempts to shed new light on these questions about the politics of decentralization by exploring electoral outcomes and public opinion at the subnational level in Argentina. Con…
Does Democracy Promote Interstate Cooperation? Lessons from the Mercosur Region
A rapidly growing body of research suggests that democracy enhances prospects for the peaceful settlement of interstate conflicts. To what extent can democracy also be linked with increased international cooperation? Building upon the literature on political cooperation as well as recent discussions of the "democratic peace," this study offers a plausibility probe of the hypothesis that democracy increases the likelihood of interstate agreement. …
New Theoretical Perspectives on Democratization
The Rise of Leftist– Populist Governance in Latin America
Over the past decade the contours of political party competition in Latin America have been dramatically altered by an upsurge of support for leftist–populist parties and the related weakening of established parties on the center and right end of the political spectrum. Drawing on both aggregate and individual-level evidence, this article explores the roots of this swing of the political pendulum. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, which attrib…
Subnational Electoral Choice
Are the policy failures of subnational officials reliably punished by voters, or do subnational elections instead pivot around national trends? This study attempts to shed new light on these questions by exploring subnational elections in the Argentine context. Building on a modified version of the referendum-voting model, our analysis suggests that the fate of candidates in both national and subnational elections is shaped by the performance of …
Political Scale and Electoral Turnout
This article attempts to bring the politics of scale back into the study of comparative politics. Explicitly focusing on the question of electoral turnout in the less industrialized world, it explores the impact of variations in community size relative to other influences on citizen participation. The findings, which draw on both aggregate and individual-level data at the subnational level of analysis, offer considerable evidence that electoral p…
Theoretical Decay and Theoretical Development
Research on the less industrialized regions of the world has undergone major changes in terms of theoretical rigor, methodological sophistication, and the diversification of analytical approaches since the publication of Samuel P. Huntingdon's essay, “Political Development and Political Decay,” inWorld Politicsin 1965. Yet more than three decades later, comparativists are rediscovering political institutions, highlighting the originality of Hunti…
New Wine or Old Bottlenecks? The Study of Latin American Democracy
The politics of neoliberal economic reform in South America, 1980–1994
The Sustainability of Political Democracy
Recent literature emphasizes the fragility of newly emerging democracies and the importance of economic performance to their survival. The analysis reevaluates this conventional wisdom and tests a theoretical alternative that takes into account the differential strengths and weaknesses of democracy and authoritarianism as well as institutional variations among democratic regimes. South American data for the post-1944 period form the empirical bas…
Redemocratization and the Impact of Authoritarian Rule in Latin America
The Politics of Economic Policy and Performance in Latin America
This study explores variations in macroeconomic policy and performance in contemporary Latin America on the basis of a theoretical model that emphasizes the complex interplay of partisan control of the government, labor strength, and electoral competition. The plausibility of the model is assessed on the basis of a cross-national time series analysis of economic policy choice and performance in nineteen nations. Contrary to the view that internat…
Bureaucratic-Authoritarianism Revisited
With the publication in 1973 of Modernization and Bureaucratic-Authoritarianism: Studies in South American Politics, Guillermo O'Donnell initiated a new phase in the debate over the relationship between social change and politics in Latin America. In contrast to most of the political development literature of the 1950s and 1960s, O'Donnell argued that social and economic modernization in the context of delayed development is more likely to lead t…
Neopatrimonialism
The dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet has persevered for nearly a decade and a half, outliving the military regimes of Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay with which it was once contemporaneous. It may also have outlived the term by which it was characterized in the seminal writings of Guillermo O'Donnell.' While Chilean authoritarianism clearly has shared the exclusionary attributes of other recent southern cone military regimes, it has exhibi…
The process of democratization in Latin America
Evaluating the Policy Impact of Military Regimes in Latin America
A central issue in the analysis of military regimes in Latin America is their policy impact. How successful are military governments in promoting economic development? How do their policies and performances compare with those of civilian governments? The sheer volume of research on the causes of military takeovers in Latin America implies that regime changes have important consequences. Yet to date we are far from having satisfactory answers to t…
Exogenous Shocks and Democratic Accountability
This study attempts to contribute to the growing debate over democratic accountability by focusing on the electoral impact of natural disasters and economic crises in the Caribbean. Although largely ignored by political science, the polities in the region share a long history of democratic governance as well as extreme vulnerability to adverse weather conditions and global economic fluctuations. The Caribbean thus offers unusually fertile opportu…
Peasants, Politics, and Revolution
Economic dependency and political conflict
Development and Strategy in Latin America
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The Timing, Pace and Sequence of Political Change in Chile, 1891-1925
N recent years students of comparative political development have begun to emphasize the importance of the timing, sequence, and pace of change. These variables have been used, in particular, to explain the failure of Latin American and other Third World countries to follow a liberal democratic model of development.' In view of this theoretical work, Chile's political experience during the 1891-1925 period is extremely interesting and deserves gr…
Evaluating the Policy Impact of Military Regimes in Latin America
A central issue in the analysis of military regimes in Latin America is their policy impact. How successful are military governments in promoting economic development? How do their policies and performances compare with those of civilian governments? The sheer volume of research on the causes of military takeovers in Latin America implies that regime changes have important consequences. Yet to date we are far from having satisfactory answers to t…
El orden conservador
Political Demobilization in Chile, 1973-1978
The military coup of September 11, 1973 initiated a rapid and intense process of political demobilization in Chile. This article examines that process and explores its relationship to the central policy goals of the Chilean junta. It focuses specifically on the regime's efforts to control trade unions and political parties, which were major vehicles for expanding political awareness and participation prior to the coup, and attempts to provide som…
Death in Washington
Death in Washington
Bureaucratic-Authoritarianism Revisited
With the publication in 1973 of Modernization and Bureaucratic-Authoritarianism: Studies in South American Politics, Guillermo O'Donnell initiated a new phase in the debate over the relationship between social change and politics in Latin America. In contrast to most of the political development literature of the 1950s and 1960s, O'Donnell argued that social and economic modernization in the context of delayed development is more likely to lead t…
Exclusionary democracy
Redemocratization and the Impact of Authoritarian Rule in Latin America
Party Competition in Argentina and Chile
Party Competition in Argentina and Chile
The Politics of Economic Stabilization
During the late 1970s authoritarian rule in Latin America began to give way to processes of political liberalization and democratization. The debt crisis of the early 1980s accelerated this trend. Under the weight of crippling external financial obligations, the region slid into its worst recession since the 1930s. Widespread unemployment, plummeting living standards, acute shortages of foreign exchange, declining investment, and severe inflation…
Elections and Democratization in Latin America, 1980-85
Elections and Democratization in Latin America, 1980-85
State change in Chile, 1973–1988
Neopatrimonialism
The dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet has persevered for nearly a decade and a half, outliving the military regimes of Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay with which it was once contemporaneous. It may also have outlived the term by which it was characterized in the seminal writings of Guillermo O'Donnell.' While Chilean authoritarianism clearly has shared the exclusionary attributes of other recent southern cone military regimes, it has exhibi…
Books in review
Democracy and Economic Crisis
The debt crisis has raised serious concerns about the future of democratic governance in Latin America. The prevailing assumption is not merely that economic decline undercuts prospects for democratic consolidation; because of their vulnerability to popular political pressures, democracies—particularly new democracies—have been seen as incapable of mounting effective policy responses to critical economic challenges. A comparative study of policy …
Political Parties
New Wine or Old Bottlenecks? The Study of Latin American Democracy
Military Rule in Latin America
The Political Impact of Economic Crisis in Latin America in the 1980s
Research on the political implications of economic conditions is separated into two relatively distinct bodies of literature. I bridge the theoretical gap between them by examining the effects of economic crisis on electoral outcomes in Latin America from 1982 to 1990. An analysis of 21 competitive elections indicates that crisis conditions undermine support for incumbents and provoke high levels of electoral volatility but without necessarily fo…
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