Jonathan Hartlyn
Biographic Data
| ID | 724075 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Hartlyn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Hartlyn |
| SIGNATURE | HARTLYN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6882-1265 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 274 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Executive Approval in Extraordinary Times: Comparing across Crises
What drives popular support for political executives? Compared to normal times, we know little about how the public responds to executives in extraordinary circumstances, and we know even less about similarities and differences across crisis events. While a calculating public may sanction incumbents for adverse events, the unexpected nature of many crises has the potential to increase leaders’ approval ratings. Based on time series analyses of ex…
Explaining programmatic party appeals in Contemporary Latin America: The differing roles of ideology, particularism, and populism
Political parties and presidents in contemporary Latin America vary considerably in the extent to which they emphasize policy when appealing to voters (programmatism). We use Confirmatory Factor Analysis and data from the Chapel Hill Expert Survey—Latin America (CHES-LA) to examine how three key party characteristics relate to programmatism: ideological positions, particularistic strategies, and populism. Our results show that political actors on…
Executive Approval Dynamics in Presidential and Parliamentary Democratic Regimes
Does the type of democratic regime matter for public evaluations of leaders? We argue two characteristics intrinsic to presidential and parliamentary regimes lead to divergent patterns of executive approval. For presidents, direct elections foster more personal leader-voter linkages; for prime ministers, dependence on the legislature for survival contributes to more institutionalized party systems. These two mechanisms should generate higher appr…
Ideological and Populist Bases of Partisan Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic in Latin America
This research note explores variation in how political parties and presidents in Latin America responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. Relying on the Chapel Hill Expert Survey-Latin America (CHES-LA), we argue that preferences regarding the trade-off between virus containment and maintaining an open economy were shaped by the ideological positions of presidents and parties, particularly for more programmatic ones. This is largely consistent with find…
Revisiting party system structuration in Latin America and Europe: Economic and socio-cultural dimensions
The degree to which party systems are ideologically and programmatically structured is central to democracy. This article analyzes differences in the extent and nature of programmatic structuration in Latin America and Europe, using a new original data source, the Chapel Hill Expert Survey-Latin America (CHES-LA), in combination with the long-standing CHES-Europe. First, we demonstrate the reliability of CHES-LA in relation to CHES-Europe, and su…
The Impact of Neopatrimonialism on Poverty in Contemporary Latin America
Neopatrimonial exercise of power, combining ruler appropriation of resources with ruler discretionality in the use of state power, remains present to varying degrees in contemporary Latin America. Building on an extensive literature, this article provides a delimited conceptualization and measurement of neopatrimonialism for 18 countries in the region and examines the effects of neopatrimonial legacies on poverty with cross-national quantitative …
Public support for Latin American presidents: The cyclical model in comparative perspective
What characterizes the dynamics of presidential popularity? Research based on the United States of America finds popularity exhibits an almost law-like cyclicality over a president’s term: high post-election “honeymoon” approval rates deteriorate before experiencing an end-of-term boost as new elections approach. We contend that cyclical approval dynamics are not specific to the USA, but rather characteristic of presidential systems more generall…
Trust in government institutions: The effects of performance and participation in the Dominican Republic and Haiti
This article analyzes theories of institutional trust in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, two developing countries that have shared some historical legacies but currently manifest divergent economic and political trajectories. The evidence confirms that conventional theories emphasizing participation and government performance help us understand institutional trust in both countries. In addition, the analysis emphasizes the analytical leverage g…
Normative and Empirical Perspectives on Constitutionalism and Presidentialism
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Sociedad civil y poder político en República Dominicana
República Dominicana registra un alto nivel de asociacionismo social y activismo político en el contexto latinoamericano. Esto, sin embargo, no se ha traducido en mayor capacidad de la sociedad civil dominicana para reformar el sistema político y mejorar la democracia. Con este planteamiento de fondo, se exploran dos preguntas. La primera es si existe una tendencia a la coparticipación en las organizaciones sociales y políticas que reduce la capa…
Dominican Party System Continuity amid Regional Transformations: Economic Policy, Clientelism, and Migration Flows
In the 1980s and 1990s, economic crisis produced ideological convergence in many Latin American party systems. Much scholarship explores how this convergence frequently provoked system change that enabled renewed ideological differentiation, but little research examines instances where convergence persisted without destabilizing the system. Through comparative historical analysis of Dominican continuity amid regional change, this study identifies…
La importancia de la gobernanza electoral y la calidad de las elecciones en la América Latina contemporánea
Este artículo contiene un análisis sistemático del papel desempeñado por la administración electoral en 19 países de América Latina y de sus efectos sobre elecciones presidenciales democráticas aceptables desde 1980, o bien, a partir de la primera elección transcendental que marcó la transición a la democracia. Se utilizan dos maneras distintas de medir la administración de elecciones, así como otros factores importantes, probando modelos logit o…
The presidential election in the Dominican Republic, May 2008
Gender Politics in the Dominican Republic: Advances for Women, Ambivalence from Men
A considerable body of research has analyzed the influence of the women's movement, changes in women's political representation, and policies promoting women's interests in the developing world. However, we know comparatively less about the degree to which the attitudes and behaviors of the mass public mirror these national patterns. This article explores the evolution of gender differences in citizens' political interest, civic engagement, and s…
Electoral Governance Matters: Explaining the Quality of Elections in Contemporary Latin America
This article provides a systematic cross-national analysis of the role of electoral administration in explaining acceptable democratic presidential elections in 19 countries in Latin America since the year 1980 or the first pivotal, transitional election. The authors provide two alternative measures of election administration, one focused on the degree of partisanship or professional independence and another on formal—legal institutional independ…
Electoral Authoritarianism: The Dynamics of Unfree Competition
Performance Still Matters: Explaining Trust in Government in the Dominican Republic
What explains low levels of trust in government institutions in democratizing Latin American countries? The authors examine this question in the Dominican Republic, employing data from three surveys conducted over 1994 to 2001. Their analysis finds that trust in government institutions is shaped primarily by perceptions of economic and political performance by government. There is little evidence of a relationship between civic engagement and ins…
Diferenças de gênero na República Dominicana, 1994-2004: Dois Passos À Frente, Um Passo Para Trás
A lenta mudança da natureza da diferença de gênero responde tanto a mudanças sociais, como urbanização, educação, o ingresso das mulheres na força de trabalho e a democratização, quanto a esforços combinados por movimentos sociais e líderes políticos para a ampliação dos direitos da mulher. Esses fatores claramente tiveram impacto na República Dominicana na última década, influenciando as diferenças de gênero no país. Avaliamos a natureza e a evo…
The Legacies of Liberalism: Path Dependence and Political Regimes in Central America
Latin American Democracy in "Post-Consolidation" Literature: Optimism and Pessimism
Democracy in Developing Countries: Latin America, 2nd ed.
Extensively revised since the first edition was published in 1989, this analytically balanced and empirically rich volume thoroughly examines the historical, cultural, social, economic, political, and international factors that affect both the prospects for and the nature of political democracy in Latin America. The book reflects improvements in democratic trends in some countries, but also the erosion of democratic advances in others, with subst…
Latin America's parties
Latin America’s Parties Jonathan Hartlyn (bio) Building Democratic Institutions: Party Systems in Latin America. Edited by Scott Mainwaring and Timothy R. Scully. Stanford University Press, 1995. 578 pp. This book represents a major step forward in the analysis of parties and party systems in Latin America, enriching the debate enormously. Introductory and concluding chapters by the coeditors make an important general argument, raise issues for f…
The Cambridge History of Latin America
The second part of Volume 6 of The Cambridge History of Latin America examines the military in Latin American politics; democracy; the Left; labour movements and the urban working class; rural mobilisation and violence. It also takes a look at the role of women in twentieth-century Latin American economy, society, and politics. The volume finishes with a discussion of the actions and importance of the Catholic and Protestant churches
Crisis-Ridden Elections (Again) in the Dominican Republic: Neopatrimonialism, Presidentialism, and Weak Electoral Oversight
For only the fifth time since 1978, the Dominican Republic held concurrent elections in 1994 for candidates at every level of government - presidential, congressional and municipal. The most important of these contests, for the presidency, saw the incumbent, Joaquίn Balaguer, returned to the post he has held for so long, defeating his principal challenger, José Francisco Peña Gόmez, by a margin of 22,281 votes. The most recent election, on 16 May…
The United States and Latin America in the 1990s: Beyond the Cold War
Electoral Governance Matters: Explaining the Quality of Elections in Contemporary Latin America
This article provides a systematic cross-national analysis of the role of electoral administration in explaining acceptable democratic presidential elections in 19 countries in Latin America since the year 1980 or the first pivotal, transitional election. The authors provide two alternative measures of election administration, one focused on the degree of partisanship or professional independence and another on formal—legal institutional independ…
Performance Still Matters: Explaining Trust in Government in the Dominican Republic
What explains low levels of trust in government institutions in democratizing Latin American countries? The authors examine this question in the Dominican Republic, employing data from three surveys conducted over 1994 to 2001. Their analysis finds that trust in government institutions is shaped primarily by perceptions of economic and political performance by government. There is little evidence of a relationship between civic engagement and ins…
Public support for Latin American presidents: The cyclical model in comparative perspective
What characterizes the dynamics of presidential popularity? Research based on the United States of America finds popularity exhibits an almost law-like cyclicality over a president’s term: high post-election “honeymoon” approval rates deteriorate before experiencing an end-of-term boost as new elections approach. We contend that cyclical approval dynamics are not specific to the USA, but rather characteristic of presidential systems more generall…
Revisiting party system structuration in Latin America and Europe: Economic and socio-cultural dimensions
The degree to which party systems are ideologically and programmatically structured is central to democracy. This article analyzes differences in the extent and nature of programmatic structuration in Latin America and Europe, using a new original data source, the Chapel Hill Expert Survey-Latin America (CHES-LA), in combination with the long-standing CHES-Europe. First, we demonstrate the reliability of CHES-LA in relation to CHES-Europe, and su…
Trust in government institutions: The effects of performance and participation in the Dominican Republic and Haiti
This article analyzes theories of institutional trust in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, two developing countries that have shared some historical legacies but currently manifest divergent economic and political trajectories. The evidence confirms that conventional theories emphasizing participation and government performance help us understand institutional trust in both countries. In addition, the analysis emphasizes the analytical leverage g…
The politics of coalition rule in Colombia
Crisis-Ridden Elections (Again) in the Dominican Republic: Neopatrimonialism, Presidentialism, and Weak Electoral Oversight
For only the fifth time since 1978, the Dominican Republic held concurrent elections in 1994 for candidates at every level of government - presidential, congressional and municipal. The most important of these contests, for the presidency, saw the incumbent, Joaquίn Balaguer, returned to the post he has held for so long, defeating his principal challenger, José Francisco Peña Gόmez, by a margin of 22,281 votes. The most recent election, on 16 May…
The Politics of Coalition Rule in Colombia
Gender Politics in the Dominican Republic: Advances for Women, Ambivalence from Men
A considerable body of research has analyzed the influence of the women's movement, changes in women's political representation, and policies promoting women's interests in the developing world. However, we know comparatively less about the degree to which the attitudes and behaviors of the mass public mirror these national patterns. This article explores the evolution of gender differences in citizens' political interest, civic engagement, and s…
Dominican Party System Continuity amid Regional Transformations: Economic Policy, Clientelism, and Migration Flows
In the 1980s and 1990s, economic crisis produced ideological convergence in many Latin American party systems. Much scholarship explores how this convergence frequently provoked system change that enabled renewed ideological differentiation, but little research examines instances where convergence persisted without destabilizing the system. Through comparative historical analysis of Dominican continuity amid regional change, this study identifies…
Latin American Political Economy: Financial Crisis and Political Change
The presidential election in the Dominican Republic, May 2008
The impact of patterns of industrialization and of popular sector incorporation on political regime type: A case study of Colombia
Ideological and Populist Bases of Partisan Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic in Latin America
This research note explores variation in how political parties and presidents in Latin America responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. Relying on the Chapel Hill Expert Survey-Latin America (CHES-LA), we argue that preferences regarding the trade-off between virus containment and maintaining an open economy were shaped by the ideological positions of presidents and parties, particularly for more programmatic ones. This is largely consistent with find…
The Impact of Neopatrimonialism on Poverty in Contemporary Latin America
Neopatrimonial exercise of power, combining ruler appropriation of resources with ruler discretionality in the use of state power, remains present to varying degrees in contemporary Latin America. Building on an extensive literature, this article provides a delimited conceptualization and measurement of neopatrimonialism for 18 countries in the region and examines the effects of neopatrimonial legacies on poverty with cross-national quantitative …
Sociedad civil y poder político en República Dominicana
República Dominicana registra un alto nivel de asociacionismo social y activismo político en el contexto latinoamericano. Esto, sin embargo, no se ha traducido en mayor capacidad de la sociedad civil dominicana para reformar el sistema político y mejorar la democracia. Con este planteamiento de fondo, se exploran dos preguntas. La primera es si existe una tendencia a la coparticipación en las organizaciones sociales y políticas que reduce la capa…
The Dominican Republic's Disputed Elections
Military Governments and the Transition to Civilian Rule: The Colombian Experience of 1957-1958
In the 1960s and 1970s, scholars interested in studying Latin American politics inevitably were drawn to the study of military coups d'etat and their causes. In the 1980s, a number of the countries in Latin America whose civilian political regimes were overthrown by military regimes may undergo or attempt to consolidate processes of democratization or redemocratization. Thus scholarly interest has tended to shift away from seeking to understand t…
Executive Approval Dynamics in Presidential and Parliamentary Democratic Regimes
Does the type of democratic regime matter for public evaluations of leaders? We argue two characteristics intrinsic to presidential and parliamentary regimes lead to divergent patterns of executive approval. For presidents, direct elections foster more personal leader-voter linkages; for prime ministers, dependence on the legislature for survival contributes to more institutionalized party systems. These two mechanisms should generate higher appr…
The impact of patterns of industrialization and of popular sector incorporation on political regime type: A case study of Colombia
Military Governments and the Transition to Civilian Rule: The Colombian Experience of 1957-1958
In the 1960s and 1970s, scholars interested in studying Latin American politics inevitably were drawn to the study of military coups d'etat and their causes. In the 1980s, a number of the countries in Latin America whose civilian political regimes were overthrown by military regimes may undergo or attempt to consolidate processes of democratization or redemocratization. Thus scholarly interest has tended to shift away from seeking to understand t…
Producer Associations, the Political Regime, and Policy Processes in Contemporary Colombia
Unlike many developing countries, Colombia has managed since 1958 to avoid both military rule and chronic political instability while being governed by a civilian political regime, a consociational regime. The purpose of this article is to help explain the Colombian political regime's relative longevity by focusing on the behavior of producer groups in Colombia and the associations that represent them. The article asks how important the support o…
Latin American Political Economy: Financial Crisis and Political Change
Winners and Losers in Colombia's Economic Growth of the 1970s
Colombia experienced substantial economic growth during the decade of the 1970s, but the question of who has benefited from this growth is the subject of some discussion. The weight of opinion is that the growth in the 1970s did not help the poor or improve the distribution of income. This study examines a wide array of data and arrives at a different conclusion--namely, that the income distribution did not deteriorate and that the real incomes o…
The politics of coalition rule in Colombia
Latin American Political Economy: Financial Crisis and Political Change
"Commentary on Bagley's "The New Hundred Years War? National Security and the War on Drugs in Latin America
Jonathan Hartlyn, Commentary on Bagley's "The New Hundred Years War? National Security and the War on Drugs in Latin America", Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Spring, 1988), pp. 183-186
Democracy in Developing Countries: Latin America
Following a common analytical framework, the authors trace the experiences with democratic and authoritarian rule and assess the underlying causes of democratic success and failure in ten Latin American countries.
The Politics of Coalition Rule in Colombia
The Dominican Republic's Disputed Elections
The Politics of Coalition Rule in Colombia
Crisis-Ridden Elections (Again) in the Dominican Republic: Neopatrimonialism, Presidentialism, and Weak Electoral Oversight
For only the fifth time since 1978, the Dominican Republic held concurrent elections in 1994 for candidates at every level of government - presidential, congressional and municipal. The most important of these contests, for the presidency, saw the incumbent, Joaquίn Balaguer, returned to the post he has held for so long, defeating his principal challenger, José Francisco Peña Gόmez, by a margin of 22,281 votes. The most recent election, on 16 May…
The United States and Latin America in the 1990s: Beyond the Cold War
The Cambridge History of Latin America
The second part of Volume 6 of The Cambridge History of Latin America examines the military in Latin American politics; democracy; the Left; labour movements and the urban working class; rural mobilisation and violence. It also takes a look at the role of women in twentieth-century Latin American economy, society, and politics. The volume finishes with a discussion of the actions and importance of the Catholic and Protestant churches
Latin America's parties
Latin America’s Parties Jonathan Hartlyn (bio) Building Democratic Institutions: Party Systems in Latin America. Edited by Scott Mainwaring and Timothy R. Scully. Stanford University Press, 1995. 578 pp. This book represents a major step forward in the analysis of parties and party systems in Latin America, enriching the debate enormously. Introductory and concluding chapters by the coeditors make an important general argument, raise issues for f…
Democracy in Developing Countries: Latin America, 2nd ed.
Extensively revised since the first edition was published in 1989, this analytically balanced and empirically rich volume thoroughly examines the historical, cultural, social, economic, political, and international factors that affect both the prospects for and the nature of political democracy in Latin America. The book reflects improvements in democratic trends in some countries, but also the erosion of democratic advances in others, with subst…
Latin American Democracy in "Post-Consolidation" Literature: Optimism and Pessimism
The Legacies of Liberalism: Path Dependence and Political Regimes in Central America
Electoral Authoritarianism: The Dynamics of Unfree Competition
Performance Still Matters: Explaining Trust in Government in the Dominican Republic
What explains low levels of trust in government institutions in democratizing Latin American countries? The authors examine this question in the Dominican Republic, employing data from three surveys conducted over 1994 to 2001. Their analysis finds that trust in government institutions is shaped primarily by perceptions of economic and political performance by government. There is little evidence of a relationship between civic engagement and ins…
Diferenças de gênero na República Dominicana, 1994-2004: Dois Passos À Frente, Um Passo Para Trás
A lenta mudança da natureza da diferença de gênero responde tanto a mudanças sociais, como urbanização, educação, o ingresso das mulheres na força de trabalho e a democratização, quanto a esforços combinados por movimentos sociais e líderes políticos para a ampliação dos direitos da mulher. Esses fatores claramente tiveram impacto na República Dominicana na última década, influenciando as diferenças de gênero no país. Avaliamos a natureza e a evo…
Gender Politics in the Dominican Republic: Advances for Women, Ambivalence from Men
A considerable body of research has analyzed the influence of the women's movement, changes in women's political representation, and policies promoting women's interests in the developing world. However, we know comparatively less about the degree to which the attitudes and behaviors of the mass public mirror these national patterns. This article explores the evolution of gender differences in citizens' political interest, civic engagement, and s…
Electoral Governance Matters: Explaining the Quality of Elections in Contemporary Latin America
This article provides a systematic cross-national analysis of the role of electoral administration in explaining acceptable democratic presidential elections in 19 countries in Latin America since the year 1980 or the first pivotal, transitional election. The authors provide two alternative measures of election administration, one focused on the degree of partisanship or professional independence and another on formal—legal institutional independ…
La importancia de la gobernanza electoral y la calidad de las elecciones en la América Latina contemporánea
Este artículo contiene un análisis sistemático del papel desempeñado por la administración electoral en 19 países de América Latina y de sus efectos sobre elecciones presidenciales democráticas aceptables desde 1980, o bien, a partir de la primera elección transcendental que marcó la transición a la democracia. Se utilizan dos maneras distintas de medir la administración de elecciones, así como otros factores importantes, probando modelos logit o…
Political science (33 works) · Politics (27 works) · Law (24 works) · Economics (20 works) · Political economy (17 works) · Latin Americans (16 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Democracy (13 works) · Development economics (13 works) · Politics and Society in Latin America (13 works)