Post: University Lecturer in Brazilian Studies, St Cross College

Appointed: 2005

College: St Cross College

Office Details: Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk

Phone No: (01865) 284 779 -  Contact electronically

Website: http://www.lac.ox.ac.uk

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Introduction:

Please note that my email address changed on 1 August 2009: my username (timothy.power) is the same, but the domain changed from brazil.ox.ac.uk to lac.ox.ac.uk

I hold a joint appointment between the Department of Politics & International Relations and the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies (SIAS), wherein I am based at the Latin American Centre.

External posts held:
President, Brazilian Studies Association (2004-2006)
Executive Committee, Asociación Latinoamericana de Ciencia Política (2004-2008)
Editorial Board, Latin American Politics and Society (2000-present); Luso-Brazilian Review (2008-present); Journal of Politics in Latin America (2008-present).

Research Activities and Interests:

Democratisation, comparative political institutions (parties, legislatures and elections), Latin American and Brazilian politics

Teaching Responsibilities:

Scheduled for academic year 2009-2010:
Politics of Brazil (lectures, MT2009, at LAC)
(scheduled to be on leave in HT2010 and TT2010)

Previous Posts Held:

Associate Professor, Florida International University (1999-2005)
Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University (1992-1999)

Publications:

FORTHCOMING

(with Eric D. Raile and Carlos Pereira) "The Executive Toolbox: Building Legislative Support in a Multiparty Presidential Regime." To appear in Political Research Quarterly.

"Optimism, Pessimism, and Coalitional Presidentialism: Debating the Institutional Design of Brazilian Democracy." To appear in Bulletin of Latin American Research 29, no. 1 (January 2010).

(with Jennifer M. Cyr) "Mapping Political Legitimacy in Latin America." To appear in International Social Science Journal no. 196 ( 2009).

(co-edited with Matthew M. Taylor) Corruption and Democracy in Brazil: The Struggle for Accountability. Under contract to University of Notre Dame Press.

BOOKS

(co-edited with Peter R. Kingstone) Democratic Brazil Revisited. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008.

(co-edited with Jairo Nicolau) Instituições representativas no Brasil: balanço e reformas. Belo Horizonte: Editora UFMG, 2007.

(co-edited with Nicol C. Rae) Exporting Congress? The Influence of the U.S. Congress on World Legislatures. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006.

The Political Right in Postauthoritarian Brazil: Elites, Institutions, and Democratization. College Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000.

(co-edited with Peter R. Kingstone) Democratic Brazil: Actors, Institutions, and Processes. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000.

(with Scott Mainwaring and Rachel Meneguello) Partidos conservadores no Brasil: Quais são, o que defendem, quais são suas bases. São Paulo: Editora Paz e Terra, 2000.

RECENT ARTICLES

"Compulsory for Whom? Mandatory Voting and Electoral Participation in Brazil, 1986-2006." Journal of Politics in Latin America 1, no. 1 (2009): 97-122.

(with Marília G. Mochel) "Shaping the Brazilian Political Class: Causes and Consequences of Recruitment to the Chamber of Deputies." Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 34, no. 67 (2009): 5-40.

(with Jeffrey Cason) "Presidentialization, Pluralization, and the Rollback of Itamaraty: Explaining Change in Brazilian Foreign Policy Making in the Cardoso-Lula Era." International Political Science Review 30, no. 2 (March 2009): 117-140.

(with César Zucco Jr.) "Estimating Ideology of Brazilian Legislative Parties, 1990-2005." Latin American Research Review 44, no. 1 (February 2009): 218-246.

(with Carlos Pereira and Lucio Rennó) “Agenda Power, Executive Decree Authority, and the Mixed Results of Reform in the Brazilian Congress.” Legislative Studies Quarterly 33, no. 1 (February 2008): 5-33.

(with Tatiana Kostadinova) "Does Democratization Depress Participation? Voter Turnout in the Latin American and Eastern European Transitional Democracies." Political Research Quarterly 60, no. 3 (September 2007): 363-377.

(with James C. Garand) “Determinants of Invalid Voting in Latin America.” Electoral Studies 26, no. 2 (June 2007):  432-444.

(with Wendy Hunter) "Rewarding Lula: Executive Power, Social Policy, and the Brazilian Elections of 2006." Latin American Politics and Society 49, no. 1 (Spring 2007): 1-30.

(with Carlos Pereira and Lucio Rennó) “Under What Conditions Do Presidents Resort to Decree Power? Theory and Evidence from the Brazilian Case.” Journal of Politics 67, no. 1 (February 2005): 178-200.

(with James C. Garand and Carolina A. Fornos) “Explaining Voter Turnout in Latin America, 1980-2000.” Comparative Political Studies 37, no. 8 (October 2004): 909-940.

RECENT CHAPTERS
(with Marília G. Mochel) "Political Recruitment in an Executive-Centric System: Presidents, Governors, and Ministers in Brazil." In Peter Siavelis and Scott Morgenstern, eds., Pathways to Power: Political Recruitment and Candidate Selection in Latin America (Penn State University Press, 2008): 218-240.

(with Barry Ames) “Parties and Governability in Brazil.” In Paul Webb and Stephen White, eds., Party Politics in New Democracies (Oxford University Press, 2007): 179-212.