C L Carter
Biographic Data
| ID | 48483 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C L Carter |
| GIVEN NAMES | C L |
| FAMILY NAME | Carter |
| SIGNATURE | CARTER C L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9472-1364 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A Space for Autonomy: Indigenous Rights in Post-Independence Latin America
Existing research analyzes government-recognized Indigenous autonomy as a late twentieth-century phenomenon. Yet even in the unlikely case of nineteenth-century Latin America, where central states systematically targeted Indigenous groups for exploitation, discrimination, and assimilation, governments sometimes adopted policies to recognize Indigenous communal landholding and self-government rights. This paper explores when and why this surprisin…
National identity after conquest
Conquering powers routinely adopt state‐directed nationalization projects that seek to make the boundaries of the nation coterminous with the (newly expanded) boundaries of the state. To this end, they implement policies that elevate the economic status of individuals who embrace the occupier's national identity and discriminate against those who do not. This paper develops a formal model that illuminates when such policies succeed or fail. We sh…
Balancing bossism: State expansion in the face of elite capture
Central states have often relied on local elites to implement policies in peripheral areas. These strategies may allow otherwise weak states to impose their directives, but they can also be inefficient, particularly when a single elite commands total control over local politics ( monopolist capture ). We argue that weak states can overcome this equilibrium by creating new subnational positions with distinct appointment rules from existing ones ( …
Expanding the State: Rural Mobilization and Bureaucratic Presence in Peru
Governments in the Global South have historically lacked bureaucratic capacity in peripheral areas, making it difficult for them to maintain order and implement their preferred policies. This paper explores when central states invest in establishing bureaucratic presence. We argue that twentieth-century peasant mobilization provided an important impetus for incumbents to create bureaucratic agencies. Using a novel dataset of bureaucratic presence…
Extraction, Assimilation, and Accommodation: The Historical Foundations of Indigenous-State Relations in Latin America
Why do some Indigenous communities experience assimilation while others obtain government protection for their long-standing institutions and cultures? I argue that historical experiences with state-led labor conscription play a key role. In the early twentieth century, Latin American governments conscripted unpaid Indigenous labor to build infrastructure. Community leaders threatened by this conscription were more likely to mobilize their commun…
The Autonomy-Representation Dilemma: Indigenous Groups and Distributive Benefits in the Americas
Autonomy carries the promise of resolving longstanding distributive inequalities between indigenous and non-indigenous groups. Yet, contemporary autonomy arrangements have often been associated instead with a reduction in native communities' access to needed public goods and services. I situate these negative effects within a broader autonomy-representation dilemma: autonomy provides indigenous groups with more responsive coethnic leaders, but th…
The Autonomy-Representation Dilemma: Indigenous Groups and Distributive Benefits in the Americas—corrigendum
Race, Rhetoric, and Research Methods
The Perspectives on Writing series addresses writing studies in a broad sense. Consistent with the wide ranging approaches characteristic of teaching and scholarship in writing across the curriculum, the series presents works that take divergent perspectives on working as a writer, teaching writing, administering writing programs, and studying writing in its various forms
The Representational Effects of Communal Property: Evidence from Peru’s Indigenous Groups
Why do some indigenous groups achieve coethnic political representation while others do not? In this paper, I highlight the primary role of communal property in shaping indigenous representation. While scholars often laud the developmental benefits of communal land titling, I argue that formalizing collectively held land can inhibit indigenous coordination to achieve political representation. Where communal land is informally held, indigenous gro…
Party system erosion: Evidence from Peru
Weakly institutionalized party systems are a defining feature of third-wave democracies. Yet, in some countries like Peru, party weakness is not a static equilibrium but rather part of a dynamic process of “party system erosion” in which weak parties become weaker over time as independents come to dominate subnational posts. As I argue, party system erosion is driven by a particular configuration of institutional factors—weak party brands, ease o…
Disrupting Regulation, Regulating Disruption: The Politics of Uber in the United States
Platform companies disrupt not only the economic sectors they enter, but also the regulatory regimes that govern those sectors. We examine Uber in the United States as a case of regulating this disruption in different arenas: cities, state legislatures, and judicial venues. We find that the politics of Uber regulation does not conform to existing models of regulation. We describe instead a pattern of “disruptive regulation”, characterized by a ch…
The Family of Love and Its Enemies
This article examines the Family of Love in sixteenth-century England, especially the period of intense hostility it engendered from 1578 to 1581. During these years, foesattacked this minor sect as a significant threat to the English church and state. The decline in the assault upon the Family has been attributed by many historians to a concurrent decline in the sect. However, recent research has demonstrated that the Family survived even after …
Bowel function and breast cancer in US women
We studied bowel function in relation to 123 breast cancer cases among 7,702 women from the US NHANES I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study. Results suggest a slight increased risk of breast cancer for both decreased frequency of bowel movements (relative risk = 1.5, 95% confidence interval = 0.8, 2.7) and firm stool consistency (RR = 1.8, 95% CI = 1.0, 3.2.) These observations are consistent with an hypothesized association between constipation and in…
Policy‐making and the Scottish Office: The Designation of Cumbernauld New Town
The role of the Scottish Office in policy‐making has been subject to a number of interpretations. It is difficult to regard it as having its own reserved policy spheres but it is clear that in certain circumstances it has the ability to forge its own policy lines. In the 1950s, in contradiction to the stated policy of the then Conservative Government. the Scottish Office was able to secure the designation of a new town at Cumbernauld. The main im…
Disrupting Regulation, Regulating Disruption: The Politics of Uber in the United States
Platform companies disrupt not only the economic sectors they enter, but also the regulatory regimes that govern those sectors. We examine Uber in the United States as a case of regulating this disruption in different arenas: cities, state legislatures, and judicial venues. We find that the politics of Uber regulation does not conform to existing models of regulation. We describe instead a pattern of “disruptive regulation”, characterized by a ch…
The Representational Effects of Communal Property: Evidence from Peru’s Indigenous Groups
Why do some indigenous groups achieve coethnic political representation while others do not? In this paper, I highlight the primary role of communal property in shaping indigenous representation. While scholars often laud the developmental benefits of communal land titling, I argue that formalizing collectively held land can inhibit indigenous coordination to achieve political representation. Where communal land is informally held, indigenous gro…
Extraction, Assimilation, and Accommodation: The Historical Foundations of Indigenous-State Relations in Latin America
Why do some Indigenous communities experience assimilation while others obtain government protection for their long-standing institutions and cultures? I argue that historical experiences with state-led labor conscription play a key role. In the early twentieth century, Latin American governments conscripted unpaid Indigenous labor to build infrastructure. Community leaders threatened by this conscription were more likely to mobilize their commun…
Party system erosion: Evidence from Peru
Weakly institutionalized party systems are a defining feature of third-wave democracies. Yet, in some countries like Peru, party weakness is not a static equilibrium but rather part of a dynamic process of “party system erosion” in which weak parties become weaker over time as independents come to dominate subnational posts. As I argue, party system erosion is driven by a particular configuration of institutional factors—weak party brands, ease o…
Policy‐making and the Scottish Office: The Designation of Cumbernauld New Town
The role of the Scottish Office in policy‐making has been subject to a number of interpretations. It is difficult to regard it as having its own reserved policy spheres but it is clear that in certain circumstances it has the ability to forge its own policy lines. In the 1950s, in contradiction to the stated policy of the then Conservative Government. the Scottish Office was able to secure the designation of a new town at Cumbernauld. The main im…
Bowel function and breast cancer in US women
We studied bowel function in relation to 123 breast cancer cases among 7,702 women from the US NHANES I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study. Results suggest a slight increased risk of breast cancer for both decreased frequency of bowel movements (relative risk = 1.5, 95% confidence interval = 0.8, 2.7) and firm stool consistency (RR = 1.8, 95% CI = 1.0, 3.2.) These observations are consistent with an hypothesized association between constipation and in…
Policy‐making and the Scottish Office: The Designation of Cumbernauld New Town
The role of the Scottish Office in policy‐making has been subject to a number of interpretations. It is difficult to regard it as having its own reserved policy spheres but it is clear that in certain circumstances it has the ability to forge its own policy lines. In the 1950s, in contradiction to the stated policy of the then Conservative Government. the Scottish Office was able to secure the designation of a new town at Cumbernauld. The main im…
Bowel function and breast cancer in US women
We studied bowel function in relation to 123 breast cancer cases among 7,702 women from the US NHANES I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study. Results suggest a slight increased risk of breast cancer for both decreased frequency of bowel movements (relative risk = 1.5, 95% confidence interval = 0.8, 2.7) and firm stool consistency (RR = 1.8, 95% CI = 1.0, 3.2.) These observations are consistent with an hypothesized association between constipation and in…
The Family of Love and Its Enemies
This article examines the Family of Love in sixteenth-century England, especially the period of intense hostility it engendered from 1578 to 1581. During these years, foesattacked this minor sect as a significant threat to the English church and state. The decline in the assault upon the Family has been attributed by many historians to a concurrent decline in the sect. However, recent research has demonstrated that the Family survived even after …
Disrupting Regulation, Regulating Disruption: The Politics of Uber in the United States
Platform companies disrupt not only the economic sectors they enter, but also the regulatory regimes that govern those sectors. We examine Uber in the United States as a case of regulating this disruption in different arenas: cities, state legislatures, and judicial venues. We find that the politics of Uber regulation does not conform to existing models of regulation. We describe instead a pattern of “disruptive regulation”, characterized by a ch…
Party system erosion: Evidence from Peru
Weakly institutionalized party systems are a defining feature of third-wave democracies. Yet, in some countries like Peru, party weakness is not a static equilibrium but rather part of a dynamic process of “party system erosion” in which weak parties become weaker over time as independents come to dominate subnational posts. As I argue, party system erosion is driven by a particular configuration of institutional factors—weak party brands, ease o…
Race, Rhetoric, and Research Methods
The Perspectives on Writing series addresses writing studies in a broad sense. Consistent with the wide ranging approaches characteristic of teaching and scholarship in writing across the curriculum, the series presents works that take divergent perspectives on working as a writer, teaching writing, administering writing programs, and studying writing in its various forms
The Representational Effects of Communal Property: Evidence from Peru’s Indigenous Groups
Why do some indigenous groups achieve coethnic political representation while others do not? In this paper, I highlight the primary role of communal property in shaping indigenous representation. While scholars often laud the developmental benefits of communal land titling, I argue that formalizing collectively held land can inhibit indigenous coordination to achieve political representation. Where communal land is informally held, indigenous gro…
The Autonomy-Representation Dilemma: Indigenous Groups and Distributive Benefits in the Americas
Autonomy carries the promise of resolving longstanding distributive inequalities between indigenous and non-indigenous groups. Yet, contemporary autonomy arrangements have often been associated instead with a reduction in native communities' access to needed public goods and services. I situate these negative effects within a broader autonomy-representation dilemma: autonomy provides indigenous groups with more responsive coethnic leaders, but th…
The Autonomy-Representation Dilemma: Indigenous Groups and Distributive Benefits in the Americas—corrigendum
Extraction, Assimilation, and Accommodation: The Historical Foundations of Indigenous-State Relations in Latin America
Why do some Indigenous communities experience assimilation while others obtain government protection for their long-standing institutions and cultures? I argue that historical experiences with state-led labor conscription play a key role. In the early twentieth century, Latin American governments conscripted unpaid Indigenous labor to build infrastructure. Community leaders threatened by this conscription were more likely to mobilize their commun…
A Space for Autonomy: Indigenous Rights in Post-Independence Latin America
Existing research analyzes government-recognized Indigenous autonomy as a late twentieth-century phenomenon. Yet even in the unlikely case of nineteenth-century Latin America, where central states systematically targeted Indigenous groups for exploitation, discrimination, and assimilation, governments sometimes adopted policies to recognize Indigenous communal landholding and self-government rights. This paper explores when and why this surprisin…
National identity after conquest
Conquering powers routinely adopt state‐directed nationalization projects that seek to make the boundaries of the nation coterminous with the (newly expanded) boundaries of the state. To this end, they implement policies that elevate the economic status of individuals who embrace the occupier's national identity and discriminate against those who do not. This paper develops a formal model that illuminates when such policies succeed or fail. We sh…
Balancing bossism: State expansion in the face of elite capture
Central states have often relied on local elites to implement policies in peripheral areas. These strategies may allow otherwise weak states to impose their directives, but they can also be inefficient, particularly when a single elite commands total control over local politics ( monopolist capture ). We argue that weak states can overcome this equilibrium by creating new subnational positions with distinct appointment rules from existing ones ( …
Expanding the State: Rural Mobilization and Bureaucratic Presence in Peru
Governments in the Global South have historically lacked bureaucratic capacity in peripheral areas, making it difficult for them to maintain order and implement their preferred policies. This paper explores when central states invest in establishing bureaucratic presence. We argue that twentieth-century peasant mobilization provided an important impetus for incumbents to create bureaucratic agencies. Using a novel dataset of bureaucratic presence…
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