Barry Ames
Biographic Data
| ID | 690944 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barry Ames |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barry |
| FAMILY NAME | Ames |
| SIGNATURE | AMES B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 788 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Persuasive Peers: Social Communication and Voting in Latin America
In Latin America's new democracies, political parties and mass partisanship are not deeply entrenched, leaving many votes up for grabs during election campaigns. In a typical presidential election season, between one-quarter and one-half of all voters change their voting intentions across party lines in the months before election day. Advancing a new theory of Latin American voting behavior, this book argues that political discussions within info…
Persuasive Peers: Social Communication and Voting in Latin America
How voting behavior in Latin America is influenced by social networks and everyday communication among peers In Latin America’s new democracies, political parties and mass partisanship are not deeply entrenched, leaving many votes up for grabs during election campaigns. In a typical presidential election season, between one-quarter and one-half of all voters—figures unheard of in older democracies—change their voting intentions across party lines…
Agency and Structure in Latin American Regime Change
Transitions from authoritarianism and breakdowns of democracy have long been central puzzles for scholars of Latin American politics. Because structural explanations have proved to be weak, recent work has emphasised political agency. This strand of research is promising, but major questions remain unanswered: Who are the key actors driving regime change? How do their individual preferences affect transitions and breakdowns? This article focuses …
Routledge Handbook of Brazilian Politics
"With contributions from leading international scholars, this Handbook offers the most rigorous and up to date analyses of virtually every aspect of Brazilian politics, including inequality, environmental politics, foreign policy, economic policy making, social policy, and human rights. Divided into three major sections, Part One focuses on mass behavior, while Part Two moves to representation and Part Three treats political economy and policy. T…
Routledge Handbook of Brazilian Politics
The Dynamics of Partisan Identification When Party Brands Change: The Case of the Workers Party in Brazil
What happens to partisanship when a party undergoes rapid and visible elite-led changes that dilute its traditional brand? We address scholarly debates on the stability of mass partisanship by analyzing the consequences of the major brand change (marked by policy moderation and scandal) experienced by the leftist Brazilian Workers Party (PT) between 2002 and 2006. Analyzing a survey panel with interviews spanning this period, we find that many Br…
PT no purgatório: Ambivalência Eleitoral No Primeiro Turno Das Eleições Presidenciais De 2010
Neste artigo investigamos os padrões de volatilidade eleitoral, em nível individual, nas eleições presidenciais de 2010 com o objetivo de explicar a mudança de intenção de votos antes do primeiro turno entre os candidatos José Serra, Marina Silva e Dilma Rousseff. Damos ênfase ao papel das percepções sobre corrupção e sobre o aborto para entendermos o resultado final do primeiro turno das eleições. Para tanto, utilizamos o Estudo de Painel Eleito…
Reelection and Legislative Power: Surprising Results from Brazil
A diverse and growing literature ties legislative professionalization and power to career paths. In particular, higher rates of reelection and longer legislative careers should produce more professional, competent, and high‐quality legislatures. Legislators have more incentives to strengthen their own institution when they intend to remain there for a long career. Using data from the most recent constitutional convention in Brazil, we show that l…
Keeping Up with the Souzas: Social Influence and Electoral Change in a Weak Party System, Brazil 2002-2006
Despite weak partisanship and considerable political change in the wake of the 2002 election, three-quarters of Brazilian voters supported a presidential candidate in 2006 from the same party they had backed in 2002. This article assesses the factors causing both electoral stability and electoral change with a transition model, a model testing whether the effects of respondents' evaluative criteria depend on their initial vote choices. Social con…
Knowing Left from Right: Ideological Identification in Brazil, 2002-2006
Ideology, typically defined on a left-right spectrum, should provide a means of communication between elites and masses. After years of leftist party rule, have Brazilian voters internalized ideological divisions? Longitudinal surveys conducted from 2002 to 2006 reveal high nonresponse and instability in ideological self-identification. We find that the capacity to think ideologically is in part a function of political and social context. This ca…
Split-ticket voting as the rule: Voters and permanent divided government in Brazil
Strategy, Careers, and Judicial Decisions: Lessons from the Bolivian Courts
Using survey data from Bolivian trial courts, we explore the relationship between judicial decisions, career goals, and hierarchical pressures in continental legal systems. Based on a principal-agent approach, we hypothesize that inferior court judges are more likely to defer to superior courts when they share their interpretation of the law, when they anticipate reversals, and when they fear political manipulation of judicial careers. In turn, s…
Social Context and Campaign Volatility in New Democracies: Networks and Neighborhoods in Brazil's 2002 Elections
In new democracies party systems are often young, so partisan cues and roots in the electorate tend to be weak. The results, in many instances, include volatile campaigns with comparatively high degrees of short‐term preference change among voters. We explore the mechanisms of voter volatility and, more broadly, the ways in which citizens learn about issues and candidates in weak‐party systems. We claim that citizens in such settings rely heavily…
Hide the Republicans, the Christians, and the Women: "A Response to "Politics and Professional Advancement Among College Faculty
Do conservatives suffer discrimination in academe? In Politics and Professional Advancement Among College Faculty, Rothman, Lichter, and Nevitte argue that conservatives and Republicans teach at lower quality schools than do liberals and Democrats. Using a survey of 1643 faculty members from 183 four-year colleges and universities, they conclude that their results are consistent with the hypothesis that political conservatism confers a disadvanta…
The Political Economy of Personnel Expenditures: Brazilian States, 1965-1994
The main purpose of the paper is to test a model that explains variation in the ratio of expenditure with personnel in Brazilian states from 1965 to 1994. The independent variables include indicators of the political environment in the distinct states, such as number of veto players and level of political competition. Furthermore, variables that model the business electoral cycle and institutional changes during the period were also included in t…
The Deadlock of Democracy in Brazil
Many countries have experimented with different electoral rules in order either to increase involvement in the political system or make it easier to form stable governments. Barry Ames explores this important topic in one of the world's most populous and important democracies, Brazil. This book locates one of the sources of Brazil's "crisis of governance" in the nation's unique electoral system, a system that produces a multiplicity of weak parti…
Approaches to the Study of Institutions in Latin American Politics
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The Politics of Sustainable Development Environmental Policy Making in Four Brazilian States
The term sustainable development has become a catch phrase of the 1990s, a handy slogan for politicians, bureaucrats, environmental activists, multinational aid officials, and even business leaders. Implementing sustainable development policy, however, is no mere technical problem. Indeed, environmental policy making is classically political: a competition among multiple interests with differing goals, resources, tactics, information, and time ho…
Activities and Appointments
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Electoral Rules, Constituency Pressures, and Pork Barrel: Bases of Voting in the Brazilian Congress
Why is Brazil's legislature extraordinarily active in the distribution of pork barrel but largely inactive on national issues? This article explores the question by illuminating the motivations of congressional deputies. Emphasizing the effects of open-list proportional representation and executive dominance over resources, I develop a model of legislative voting based on the operation of Brazil's political institutions. The nature of deputies' e…
Electoral Strategy under Open-List Proportional Representation
The current paper discloses a distinctive trait of the openlist proportional representation adopted in Brazil.In such a system, congressmen are in fact elected from four spatial patterns or constituencies : concentrateddominant m u n i c i p a l i t i e s , c o n c e n t r a t e d s h a r e d municipalities, scatteredshared municipalities and scattereddominant municipalities.Through the analysis of budgetary amendments made by congressmen the art…
The Reverse Coattails Effect: Local Party Organization in the 1989 Brazilian Presidential Election
Increasingly, it is said that the main determinants of electoral outcomes are class, ethnicity, and religion and that local political organizations occupy only marginal roles in national elections. I assess the effects of local party organizations in the presidential election of 1989 in Brazil. Given the long hiatus in competitive politics, the absence of any parties linked to the country's previous democratic experience, and the weakness of citi…
The Manipulation of Consent: The State and Working-Class Consciousness in Brazil. Youssef Cohen
The Politics of Coalition Rule in Colombia. Jonathan Hartlyn
Military and Society in Latin America
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Electoral Strategy under Open-List Proportional Representation
The current paper discloses a distinctive trait of the openlist proportional representation adopted in Brazil.In such a system, congressmen are in fact elected from four spatial patterns or constituencies : concentrateddominant m u n i c i p a l i t i e s , c o n c e n t r a t e d s h a r e d municipalities, scatteredshared municipalities and scattereddominant municipalities.Through the analysis of budgetary amendments made by congressmen the art…
Electoral Rules, Constituency Pressures, and Pork Barrel: Bases of Voting in the Brazilian Congress
Why is Brazil's legislature extraordinarily active in the distribution of pork barrel but largely inactive on national issues? This article explores the question by illuminating the motivations of congressional deputies. Emphasizing the effects of open-list proportional representation and executive dominance over resources, I develop a model of legislative voting based on the operation of Brazil's political institutions. The nature of deputies' e…
Social Context and Campaign Volatility in New Democracies: Networks and Neighborhoods in Brazil's 2002 Elections
In new democracies party systems are often young, so partisan cues and roots in the electorate tend to be weak. The results, in many instances, include volatile campaigns with comparatively high degrees of short‐term preference change among voters. We explore the mechanisms of voter volatility and, more broadly, the ways in which citizens learn about issues and candidates in weak‐party systems. We claim that citizens in such settings rely heavily…
The Reverse Coattails Effect: Local Party Organization in the 1989 Brazilian Presidential Election
Increasingly, it is said that the main determinants of electoral outcomes are class, ethnicity, and religion and that local political organizations occupy only marginal roles in national elections. I assess the effects of local party organizations in the presidential election of 1989 in Brazil. Given the long hiatus in competitive politics, the absence of any parties linked to the country's previous democratic experience, and the weakness of citi…
The Dynamics of Partisan Identification When Party Brands Change: The Case of the Workers Party in Brazil
What happens to partisanship when a party undergoes rapid and visible elite-led changes that dilute its traditional brand? We address scholarly debates on the stability of mass partisanship by analyzing the consequences of the major brand change (marked by policy moderation and scandal) experienced by the leftist Brazilian Workers Party (PT) between 2002 and 2006. Analyzing a survey panel with interviews spanning this period, we find that many Br…
Knowing Left from Right: Ideological Identification in Brazil, 2002-2006
Ideology, typically defined on a left-right spectrum, should provide a means of communication between elites and masses. After years of leftist party rule, have Brazilian voters internalized ideological divisions? Longitudinal surveys conducted from 2002 to 2006 reveal high nonresponse and instability in ideological self-identification. We find that the capacity to think ideologically is in part a function of political and social context. This ca…
Bases of Support for Mexico's Dominant Party
The purpose of this paper is to elucidate the bases of support for Mexico'sPartido Revolucionário Institucional. A model is developed which identifies the major and minor variables affecting changes inPRIsupport in the six elections between 1952 and 1967. Throughout the paper the unit of analysis is the state; the dependent variables are voter turnout and the percentage of the total vote in each state received by thePRI
The Politics of Sustainable Development Environmental Policy Making in Four Brazilian States
The term sustainable development has become a catch phrase of the 1990s, a handy slogan for politicians, bureaucrats, environmental activists, multinational aid officials, and even business leaders. Implementing sustainable development policy, however, is no mere technical problem. Indeed, environmental policy making is classically political: a competition among multiple interests with differing goals, resources, tactics, information, and time ho…
Strategy, Careers, and Judicial Decisions: Lessons from the Bolivian Courts
Using survey data from Bolivian trial courts, we explore the relationship between judicial decisions, career goals, and hierarchical pressures in continental legal systems. Based on a principal-agent approach, we hypothesize that inferior court judges are more likely to defer to superior courts when they share their interpretation of the law, when they anticipate reversals, and when they fear political manipulation of judicial careers. In turn, s…
PT no purgatório: Ambivalência Eleitoral No Primeiro Turno Das Eleições Presidenciais De 2010
Neste artigo investigamos os padrões de volatilidade eleitoral, em nível individual, nas eleições presidenciais de 2010 com o objetivo de explicar a mudança de intenção de votos antes do primeiro turno entre os candidatos José Serra, Marina Silva e Dilma Rousseff. Damos ênfase ao papel das percepções sobre corrupção e sobre o aborto para entendermos o resultado final do primeiro turno das eleições. Para tanto, utilizamos o Estudo de Painel Eleito…
Split-ticket voting as the rule: Voters and permanent divided government in Brazil
The Deadlock of Democracy in Brazil
Many countries have experimented with different electoral rules in order either to increase involvement in the political system or make it easier to form stable governments. Barry Ames explores this important topic in one of the world's most populous and important democracies, Brazil. This book locates one of the sources of Brazil's "crisis of governance" in the nation's unique electoral system, a system that produces a multiplicity of weak parti…
Keeping Up with the Souzas: Social Influence and Electoral Change in a Weak Party System, Brazil 2002-2006
Despite weak partisanship and considerable political change in the wake of the 2002 election, three-quarters of Brazilian voters supported a presidential candidate in 2006 from the same party they had backed in 2002. This article assesses the factors causing both electoral stability and electoral change with a transition model, a model testing whether the effects of respondents' evaluative criteria depend on their initial vote choices. Social con…
The Politics of Public Spending in Latin America
Reelection and Legislative Power: Surprising Results from Brazil
A diverse and growing literature ties legislative professionalization and power to career paths. In particular, higher rates of reelection and longer legislative careers should produce more professional, competent, and high‐quality legislatures. Legislators have more incentives to strengthen their own institution when they intend to remain there for a long career. Using data from the most recent constitutional convention in Brazil, we show that l…
The Congressional Connection: The Structure of Politics and the Distribution of Public Expenditures in Brazil's Competitive Period
The interest of social scientists in Latin American legislatures has never been very intense, but in the 1970s, when competitive governments gave way to authoritarian regimes, it virtually died. With pluralist regimes emerging once again, a resurgence of interest in legislatures can be expected, but it remains striking how little we know about Latin American legislative structure and behavior. The nature and effects of legislative politics are no…
Hide the Republicans, the Christians, and the Women: "A Response to "Politics and Professional Advancement Among College Faculty
Do conservatives suffer discrimination in academe? In Politics and Professional Advancement Among College Faculty, Rothman, Lichter, and Nevitte argue that conservatives and Republicans teach at lower quality schools than do liberals and Democrats. Using a survey of 1643 faculty members from 183 four-year colleges and universities, they conclude that their results are consistent with the hypothesis that political conservatism confers a disadvanta…
The Political Economy of Personnel Expenditures: Brazilian States, 1965-1994
The main purpose of the paper is to test a model that explains variation in the ratio of expenditure with personnel in Brazilian states from 1965 to 1994. The independent variables include indicators of the political environment in the distinct states, such as number of veto players and level of political competition. Furthermore, variables that model the business electoral cycle and institutional changes during the period were also included in t…
Politicians in Uniform
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Agency and Structure in Latin American Regime Change
Transitions from authoritarianism and breakdowns of democracy have long been central puzzles for scholars of Latin American politics. Because structural explanations have proved to be weak, recent work has emphasised political agency. This strand of research is promising, but major questions remain unanswered: Who are the key actors driving regime change? How do their individual preferences affect transitions and breakdowns? This article focuses …
A Note on the Political Expenditure Cycle in Latin America
In an earlier paper I established that Latin American executives both civilian and military, manipulate aggregate public expenditures so as to maximize their chances of retaining office. This paper carries the analysis further by elaborating five probable strategies, each consequent to the socio‐political conditions executives face, and links strategies to tradeoffs in various programs' shares of the budget at crucial periods. The results suggest…
Bases of Support for Mexico's Dominant Party
The purpose of this paper is to elucidate the bases of support for Mexico'sPartido Revolucionário Institucional. A model is developed which identifies the major and minor variables affecting changes inPRIsupport in the six elections between 1952 and 1967. Throughout the paper the unit of analysis is the state; the dependent variables are voter turnout and the percentage of the total vote in each state received by thePRI
The Politics of Public Spending in Latin America
Politicians in Uniform
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The Brazilian Corporative State and Working-Class Politics. Kenneth Paul Erickson
A Note on the Political Expenditure Cycle in Latin America
In an earlier paper I established that Latin American executives both civilian and military, manipulate aggregate public expenditures so as to maximize their chances of retaining office. This paper carries the analysis further by elaborating five probable strategies, each consequent to the socio‐political conditions executives face, and links strategies to tradeoffs in various programs' shares of the budget at crucial periods. The results suggest…
Political Survival: Politicians and Public Policy in Latin America
In Political Survival, Barry Ames shows how public policy, especially the public budget, is used by political leaders seeking to construct coalitions insuring their survival in office. Political theorists, comparative politics specialists, public policy experts, and scholars of Latin America will want to read this book.
The Congressional Connection: The Structure of Politics and the Distribution of Public Expenditures in Brazil's Competitive Period
The interest of social scientists in Latin American legislatures has never been very intense, but in the 1970s, when competitive governments gave way to authoritarian regimes, it virtually died. With pluralist regimes emerging once again, a resurgence of interest in legislatures can be expected, but it remains striking how little we know about Latin American legislative structure and behavior. The nature and effects of legislative politics are no…
Military and Society in Latin America
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Manipulation of Consent: The State and Working-Class Consciousness in Brazil. Youssef Cohen
The Politics of Coalition Rule in Colombia. Jonathan Hartlyn
The Reverse Coattails Effect: Local Party Organization in the 1989 Brazilian Presidential Election
Increasingly, it is said that the main determinants of electoral outcomes are class, ethnicity, and religion and that local political organizations occupy only marginal roles in national elections. I assess the effects of local party organizations in the presidential election of 1989 in Brazil. Given the long hiatus in competitive politics, the absence of any parties linked to the country's previous democratic experience, and the weakness of citi…
Electoral Rules, Constituency Pressures, and Pork Barrel: Bases of Voting in the Brazilian Congress
Why is Brazil's legislature extraordinarily active in the distribution of pork barrel but largely inactive on national issues? This article explores the question by illuminating the motivations of congressional deputies. Emphasizing the effects of open-list proportional representation and executive dominance over resources, I develop a model of legislative voting based on the operation of Brazil's political institutions. The nature of deputies' e…
Electoral Strategy under Open-List Proportional Representation
The current paper discloses a distinctive trait of the openlist proportional representation adopted in Brazil.In such a system, congressmen are in fact elected from four spatial patterns or constituencies : concentrateddominant m u n i c i p a l i t i e s , c o n c e n t r a t e d s h a r e d municipalities, scatteredshared municipalities and scattereddominant municipalities.Through the analysis of budgetary amendments made by congressmen the art…
Activities and Appointments
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Politics of Sustainable Development Environmental Policy Making in Four Brazilian States
The term sustainable development has become a catch phrase of the 1990s, a handy slogan for politicians, bureaucrats, environmental activists, multinational aid officials, and even business leaders. Implementing sustainable development policy, however, is no mere technical problem. Indeed, environmental policy making is classically political: a competition among multiple interests with differing goals, resources, tactics, information, and time ho…
Approaches to the Study of Institutions in Latin American Politics
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the 'Save PDF' action button
The Deadlock of Democracy in Brazil
Many countries have experimented with different electoral rules in order either to increase involvement in the political system or make it easier to form stable governments. Barry Ames explores this important topic in one of the world's most populous and important democracies, Brazil. This book locates one of the sources of Brazil's "crisis of governance" in the nation's unique electoral system, a system that produces a multiplicity of weak parti…
Hide the Republicans, the Christians, and the Women: "A Response to "Politics and Professional Advancement Among College Faculty
Do conservatives suffer discrimination in academe? In Politics and Professional Advancement Among College Faculty, Rothman, Lichter, and Nevitte argue that conservatives and Republicans teach at lower quality schools than do liberals and Democrats. Using a survey of 1643 faculty members from 183 four-year colleges and universities, they conclude that their results are consistent with the hypothesis that political conservatism confers a disadvanta…
The Political Economy of Personnel Expenditures: Brazilian States, 1965-1994
The main purpose of the paper is to test a model that explains variation in the ratio of expenditure with personnel in Brazilian states from 1965 to 1994. The independent variables include indicators of the political environment in the distinct states, such as number of veto players and level of political competition. Furthermore, variables that model the business electoral cycle and institutional changes during the period were also included in t…
Strategy, Careers, and Judicial Decisions: Lessons from the Bolivian Courts
Using survey data from Bolivian trial courts, we explore the relationship between judicial decisions, career goals, and hierarchical pressures in continental legal systems. Based on a principal-agent approach, we hypothesize that inferior court judges are more likely to defer to superior courts when they share their interpretation of the law, when they anticipate reversals, and when they fear political manipulation of judicial careers. In turn, s…
Social Context and Campaign Volatility in New Democracies: Networks and Neighborhoods in Brazil's 2002 Elections
In new democracies party systems are often young, so partisan cues and roots in the electorate tend to be weak. The results, in many instances, include volatile campaigns with comparatively high degrees of short‐term preference change among voters. We explore the mechanisms of voter volatility and, more broadly, the ways in which citizens learn about issues and candidates in weak‐party systems. We claim that citizens in such settings rely heavily…
Split-ticket voting as the rule: Voters and permanent divided government in Brazil
Knowing Left from Right: Ideological Identification in Brazil, 2002-2006
Ideology, typically defined on a left-right spectrum, should provide a means of communication between elites and masses. After years of leftist party rule, have Brazilian voters internalized ideological divisions? Longitudinal surveys conducted from 2002 to 2006 reveal high nonresponse and instability in ideological self-identification. We find that the capacity to think ideologically is in part a function of political and social context. This ca…
Reelection and Legislative Power: Surprising Results from Brazil
A diverse and growing literature ties legislative professionalization and power to career paths. In particular, higher rates of reelection and longer legislative careers should produce more professional, competent, and high‐quality legislatures. Legislators have more incentives to strengthen their own institution when they intend to remain there for a long career. Using data from the most recent constitutional convention in Brazil, we show that l…
Keeping Up with the Souzas: Social Influence and Electoral Change in a Weak Party System, Brazil 2002-2006
Despite weak partisanship and considerable political change in the wake of the 2002 election, three-quarters of Brazilian voters supported a presidential candidate in 2006 from the same party they had backed in 2002. This article assesses the factors causing both electoral stability and electoral change with a transition model, a model testing whether the effects of respondents' evaluative criteria depend on their initial vote choices. Social con…
Political science (25 works) · Law (22 works) · Politics (21 works) · Politics and Society in Latin America (19 works) · Law (16 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (11 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Economics (7 works)