Jennifer Cyr
Biographic Data
| ID | 318688 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Cyr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Cyr |
| SIGNATURE | CYR J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6453-9046 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 137 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Workshopping Mixed Methods: Ten Years of the Southwest Workshop for Mixed Methods Research
This article reflects on the first 10 years of the Southwest Workshop for Mixed Methods Research (SWMMR), which was created to foster methodological pluralism and rigor in political science and related fields. Since its founding, SWMMR has helped to develop mixed methods research while prioritizing diversity, equity, inclusion, and mentorship. The article highlights the annual workshop’s role in building an intellectual community while supporting…
Partidos políticos y mecanismos de vinculación en América Latina: Tendencias, desafíos y respuestas
Objective/context: Recent trends in the linkages between politicians and citizens in Latin America are identified and characterized. Methodology: Several challenges facing Latin American democracies are identified, which have called into question their ability to maintain and strengthen political linkages. Second, it is argued that new ways of connecting politics with citizens have emerged in response to these challenges. Conclusions: On the one …
The Myth of Democratic Resilience
Recent accounts of democratic “U-turns” in countries such as Bangladesh, Brazil and Poland overstate the extent of democratic resilience. Analyzing a database of countries that have gone from being democratic to authoritarian and back again since 1994 reveals that almost all failed to sustain their recoveries, a reality this essay argues is driven primarily by the lasting impact of authoritarian episodes and the incentives new governments face to…
Crafting Policies Together: Citizen Preferences After Crisis
Do citizens prefer national policies that are designed collaboratively over those produced by national government alone? The question is relevant, especially in Latin America, where citizens are sceptical of government’s capacity to address complex problems. In this article, we hypothesize that collaboratively crafted policies will be preferred over those produced by government alone in Argentina and Chile. We design conjoint experiments that ask…
Doing Good Qualitative Research
(Re)pensar un modelo de investigación colaborativa después del Covid-19: Presentación de Colabora.Lat
Colabora.Lat es un proyecto que examina la promesa y la utilidad de la colaboración para elaborar mejores políticas públicas en respuesta a problemas dinámicos y complejos como la pandemia de Covid-19. En última instancia, además de ser un proyecto sobre colaboración, descubrimos que el desarrollo del proyecto en sí fluía mejor si trabajábamos con nuestros socios de forma colaborativa. En este artículo, identificamos cuatro lecciones que aprendim…
(Re-)Thinking a Collaborative Research Model After Covid-19: Introducing Colabora.Lat
Colabora.Lat is a project that examines the promise and the utility of collaboration for crafting better public policy in response to dynamic, complex problems such as the Covid-19 pandemic. Ultimately, in addition to being a project on collaboration, we found that the project itself was best carried out with our partners in a collaborative way. In this article, we identify four lessons that we learned as we sought to oversee a project on collabo…
Governing a Pandemic: Assessing the Role of Collaboration on Latin American Responses to the Covid-19 Crisis
How do governments address complex, cross-sectoral problems, like the COVID-19 pandemic? Why were some Latin American countries more successful at containing the pandemic's most devastating health outcomes? We argue that national governments that were more collaborative in their response to COVID-19 were more successful in reducing death rates. Our original dataset offers a novel attempt to operationalise collaborative governance (CG). We underta…
Collaborative Methodology from a Skeptical but Nonetheless Sympathetic Point of View
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Focus Groups for the Social Science Researcher
What is a focus group? Why do we use them? When should we use them? When should we not? Focus Groups for the Social Science Researcher provides a step-by-step guide to undertaking focus groups, whether as a stand-alone method or alongside other qualitative or quantitative methods. It recognizes the challenges that focus groups encounter and provides tips to address them. The book highlights three unique, inter-related characteristics of focus gro…
The Fates of Political Parties: Institutional Crisis, Continuity, and Change in Latin America
Political parties in the developing world often face serious electoral crises; from one election to the next, parties can be decisively voted out of national office. What happens to a party that experiences this kind of voter rejection? The literature suggests it will disappear, leaving the party system vulnerable to the inexperience of new political actors. The Fates of Political Parties offers a more nuanced perspective: focusing on a number of…
Inside Revolutionary Parties: Coalition-Building and Maintenance in Reformist Bolivia
This article explores the coalitional success of mass-mobilizing, reformist parties once they achieve power. Why are some of these parties more successful than others at managing the potentially conflicting interests of their diverse social bases? We argue that organizational strategies adopted early on matter greatly. The nature of the party’s core constituency, together with the linkage strategies undertaken by party leaders in crafting a coali…
The Unique Utility of Focus Groups for Mixed-Methods Research
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Between Adaptation and Breakdown: Conceptualizing Party Survival
The Pitfalls and Promise of Focus Groups as a Data Collection Method
Despite their long trajectory in the social sciences, few systematic works analyze how often and for what purposes focus groups appear in published works. This study fills this gap by undertaking a meta-analysis of focus group use over the last 10 years. It makes several contributions to our understanding of when and why focus groups are used in the social sciences. First, the study explains that focus groups generate data at three units of analy…
Making or Breaking Politics: Social Conflicts and Party-System Change in Democratic Bolivia
Que veinte años no es nada: Hugo Chávez, las elecciones de 2012 y el continuismo político venezolano
This article examines the continued predominance of Hugo Chávez in Venezuelan politics.The year 2012 was marked by several chavista electoral successes, despite growing economic, infrastructural, and security problems and a unified coordination effort by the country's opposition.To help explain Hugo Chávez's predominance after fourteen years of uninterrupted rule, the article points to Venezuelan public opinion in the years since the 2006 electio…
Do Electoral Laws Affect Women’s Representation
Numerous studies have found that proportional electoral rules significantly increase women’s representation in national parliaments relative to majoritarian and mixed rules. These studies, however, suffer from serious methodological problems including the endogeneity of electoral laws, poor measures of cultural variables, and neglect of time trends. This article attempts to produce more accurate estimates of the effect of electoral rules on women…
Mapping political legitimacy in Latin America
We present a general overview of political legitimacy in Latin America circa 2005. We first discuss ways in which the concept of legitimacy has coloured debates on Latin American politics. Secondly, we generate empirical information on contemporary Latin American legitimacy by replicating the innovative measurement approach of Bruce Gilley. We use this multidimensional legitimacy score to generate cross-national rankings of legitimacy in contempo…
Gap Crossing Decisions in the Sighted and Visually Impaired
Sighted and visually impaired individuals judged whether a gap before them in a raised walkway could be walked across using artificial canes of 3 lengths. Little difference was found between the participant groups in either the number of errors or the typical gap sizes that were judged to be crossable. More errors were committed by participants exploring with the longest probes, but the probe length did not systematically predict judged crossabil…
The Pitfalls and Promise of Focus Groups as a Data Collection Method
Despite their long trajectory in the social sciences, few systematic works analyze how often and for what purposes focus groups appear in published works. This study fills this gap by undertaking a meta-analysis of focus group use over the last 10 years. It makes several contributions to our understanding of when and why focus groups are used in the social sciences. First, the study explains that focus groups generate data at three units of analy…
Do Electoral Laws Affect Women’s Representation
Numerous studies have found that proportional electoral rules significantly increase women’s representation in national parliaments relative to majoritarian and mixed rules. These studies, however, suffer from serious methodological problems including the endogeneity of electoral laws, poor measures of cultural variables, and neglect of time trends. This article attempts to produce more accurate estimates of the effect of electoral rules on women…
Inside Revolutionary Parties: Coalition-Building and Maintenance in Reformist Bolivia
This article explores the coalitional success of mass-mobilizing, reformist parties once they achieve power. Why are some of these parties more successful than others at managing the potentially conflicting interests of their diverse social bases? We argue that organizational strategies adopted early on matter greatly. The nature of the party’s core constituency, together with the linkage strategies undertaken by party leaders in crafting a coali…
Governing a Pandemic: Assessing the Role of Collaboration on Latin American Responses to the Covid-19 Crisis
How do governments address complex, cross-sectoral problems, like the COVID-19 pandemic? Why were some Latin American countries more successful at containing the pandemic's most devastating health outcomes? We argue that national governments that were more collaborative in their response to COVID-19 were more successful in reducing death rates. Our original dataset offers a novel attempt to operationalise collaborative governance (CG). We underta…
Mapping political legitimacy in Latin America
We present a general overview of political legitimacy in Latin America circa 2005. We first discuss ways in which the concept of legitimacy has coloured debates on Latin American politics. Secondly, we generate empirical information on contemporary Latin American legitimacy by replicating the innovative measurement approach of Bruce Gilley. We use this multidimensional legitimacy score to generate cross-national rankings of legitimacy in contempo…
The Myth of Democratic Resilience
Recent accounts of democratic “U-turns” in countries such as Bangladesh, Brazil and Poland overstate the extent of democratic resilience. Analyzing a database of countries that have gone from being democratic to authoritarian and back again since 1994 reveals that almost all failed to sustain their recoveries, a reality this essay argues is driven primarily by the lasting impact of authoritarian episodes and the incentives new governments face to…
The Unique Utility of Focus Groups for Mixed-Methods Research
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Between Adaptation and Breakdown: Conceptualizing Party Survival
Making or Breaking Politics: Social Conflicts and Party-System Change in Democratic Bolivia
Collaborative Methodology from a Skeptical but Nonetheless Sympathetic Point of View
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Gap Crossing Decisions in the Sighted and Visually Impaired
Sighted and visually impaired individuals judged whether a gap before them in a raised walkway could be walked across using artificial canes of 3 lengths. Little difference was found between the participant groups in either the number of errors or the typical gap sizes that were judged to be crossable. More errors were committed by participants exploring with the longest probes, but the probe length did not systematically predict judged crossabil…
Mapping political legitimacy in Latin America
We present a general overview of political legitimacy in Latin America circa 2005. We first discuss ways in which the concept of legitimacy has coloured debates on Latin American politics. Secondly, we generate empirical information on contemporary Latin American legitimacy by replicating the innovative measurement approach of Bruce Gilley. We use this multidimensional legitimacy score to generate cross-national rankings of legitimacy in contempo…
Que veinte años no es nada: Hugo Chávez, las elecciones de 2012 y el continuismo político venezolano
This article examines the continued predominance of Hugo Chávez in Venezuelan politics.The year 2012 was marked by several chavista electoral successes, despite growing economic, infrastructural, and security problems and a unified coordination effort by the country's opposition.To help explain Hugo Chávez's predominance after fourteen years of uninterrupted rule, the article points to Venezuelan public opinion in the years since the 2006 electio…
Do Electoral Laws Affect Women’s Representation
Numerous studies have found that proportional electoral rules significantly increase women’s representation in national parliaments relative to majoritarian and mixed rules. These studies, however, suffer from serious methodological problems including the endogeneity of electoral laws, poor measures of cultural variables, and neglect of time trends. This article attempts to produce more accurate estimates of the effect of electoral rules on women…
Making or Breaking Politics: Social Conflicts and Party-System Change in Democratic Bolivia
Between Adaptation and Breakdown: Conceptualizing Party Survival
The Pitfalls and Promise of Focus Groups as a Data Collection Method
Despite their long trajectory in the social sciences, few systematic works analyze how often and for what purposes focus groups appear in published works. This study fills this gap by undertaking a meta-analysis of focus group use over the last 10 years. It makes several contributions to our understanding of when and why focus groups are used in the social sciences. First, the study explains that focus groups generate data at three units of analy…
The Fates of Political Parties: Institutional Crisis, Continuity, and Change in Latin America
Political parties in the developing world often face serious electoral crises; from one election to the next, parties can be decisively voted out of national office. What happens to a party that experiences this kind of voter rejection? The literature suggests it will disappear, leaving the party system vulnerable to the inexperience of new political actors. The Fates of Political Parties offers a more nuanced perspective: focusing on a number of…
Inside Revolutionary Parties: Coalition-Building and Maintenance in Reformist Bolivia
This article explores the coalitional success of mass-mobilizing, reformist parties once they achieve power. Why are some of these parties more successful than others at managing the potentially conflicting interests of their diverse social bases? We argue that organizational strategies adopted early on matter greatly. The nature of the party’s core constituency, together with the linkage strategies undertaken by party leaders in crafting a coali…
The Unique Utility of Focus Groups for Mixed-Methods Research
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Focus Groups for the Social Science Researcher
What is a focus group? Why do we use them? When should we use them? When should we not? Focus Groups for the Social Science Researcher provides a step-by-step guide to undertaking focus groups, whether as a stand-alone method or alongside other qualitative or quantitative methods. It recognizes the challenges that focus groups encounter and provides tips to address them. The book highlights three unique, inter-related characteristics of focus gro…
Governing a Pandemic: Assessing the Role of Collaboration on Latin American Responses to the Covid-19 Crisis
How do governments address complex, cross-sectoral problems, like the COVID-19 pandemic? Why were some Latin American countries more successful at containing the pandemic's most devastating health outcomes? We argue that national governments that were more collaborative in their response to COVID-19 were more successful in reducing death rates. Our original dataset offers a novel attempt to operationalise collaborative governance (CG). We underta…
Collaborative Methodology from a Skeptical but Nonetheless Sympathetic Point of View
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
(Re)pensar un modelo de investigación colaborativa después del Covid-19: Presentación de Colabora.Lat
Colabora.Lat es un proyecto que examina la promesa y la utilidad de la colaboración para elaborar mejores políticas públicas en respuesta a problemas dinámicos y complejos como la pandemia de Covid-19. En última instancia, además de ser un proyecto sobre colaboración, descubrimos que el desarrollo del proyecto en sí fluía mejor si trabajábamos con nuestros socios de forma colaborativa. En este artículo, identificamos cuatro lecciones que aprendim…
(Re-)Thinking a Collaborative Research Model After Covid-19: Introducing Colabora.Lat
Colabora.Lat is a project that examines the promise and the utility of collaboration for crafting better public policy in response to dynamic, complex problems such as the Covid-19 pandemic. Ultimately, in addition to being a project on collaboration, we found that the project itself was best carried out with our partners in a collaborative way. In this article, we identify four lessons that we learned as we sought to oversee a project on collabo…
Doing Good Qualitative Research
Workshopping Mixed Methods: Ten Years of the Southwest Workshop for Mixed Methods Research
This article reflects on the first 10 years of the Southwest Workshop for Mixed Methods Research (SWMMR), which was created to foster methodological pluralism and rigor in political science and related fields. Since its founding, SWMMR has helped to develop mixed methods research while prioritizing diversity, equity, inclusion, and mentorship. The article highlights the annual workshop’s role in building an intellectual community while supporting…
Partidos políticos y mecanismos de vinculación en América Latina: Tendencias, desafíos y respuestas
Objective/context: Recent trends in the linkages between politicians and citizens in Latin America are identified and characterized. Methodology: Several challenges facing Latin American democracies are identified, which have called into question their ability to maintain and strengthen political linkages. Second, it is argued that new ways of connecting politics with citizens have emerged in response to these challenges. Conclusions: On the one …
The Myth of Democratic Resilience
Recent accounts of democratic “U-turns” in countries such as Bangladesh, Brazil and Poland overstate the extent of democratic resilience. Analyzing a database of countries that have gone from being democratic to authoritarian and back again since 1994 reveals that almost all failed to sustain their recoveries, a reality this essay argues is driven primarily by the lasting impact of authoritarian episodes and the incentives new governments face to…
Crafting Policies Together: Citizen Preferences After Crisis
Do citizens prefer national policies that are designed collaboratively over those produced by national government alone? The question is relevant, especially in Latin America, where citizens are sceptical of government’s capacity to address complex problems. In this article, we hypothesize that collaboratively crafted policies will be preferred over those produced by government alone in Argentina and Chile. We design conjoint experiments that ask…
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