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Timothy Power

Professor of Latin American Politics, St Antony's College
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St Antony's College

I am currently serving as Head of the Social Sciences Division. Since 2005, I have held a joint appointment between the Department of Politics & International Relations and the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA), wherein I am based at the Latin American Centre.

In 1990, I initiated the Brazilian Legislative Survey which I now co-direct with Cesar Zucco Jr of the Fundação Getúlio Vargas in Rio de Janeiro. With Paul Chaisty and Nic Cheeseman, I co-authored a book based on our multi-year, ESRC-funded research project on "Coalitional Presidentialism in Africa, Latin America and Postcommunist Europe: Dynamics of Executive-Legislative Relations in New Democracies." From 2012-2014, I was the Director of Graduate Studies in Politics in DPIR. I have served as Treasurer of the Latin American Studies Association and as President of the Brazilian Studies Association. I am currently an associate editor of the Journal of Politics in Latin America. I serve on the editorial boards of Comparative Political Studies and Political Behavior.

Research

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

Teaching

Recent responsibilities:

Comparative Government Core Course (MPhil Politics, various sessions)

Comparative Presidentialism (MPhil Politics)

Politics of Brazil (offered via LAC/OSGA, open to DPIR students)

Timothy Power

Publications

BOOKS

(with Paul Chaisty and Nic Cheeseman) Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective: Minority Presidents in Multiparty Systems. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018 (paperback 2020).

(with Peter R. Kingstone) Democratic Brazil Divided. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017.

(co-edited with Cesar Zucco Jr.) O Congresso por ele mesmo: autopercepções da classe política brasileira. Belo Horizonte: Editora UFMG, 2011.

(co-edited with Matthew M. Taylor) Corruption and Democracy in Brazil: The Struggle for Accountability. University of Notre Dame Press, 2011.

(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 as suas bases. So Paulo: Editora Paz e Terra, 2000.

SELECTED ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS (past 5 years)

(with Cesar Zucco Jr.) “The Ideology of Brazilian Parties and Presidents: A Research Note on Coalitional Presidentialism Under Stress.” Forthcoming in Latin American Politics and Society.

(with Mariana Batista and Cesar Zucco Jr.) “Be Careful What You Wish For: Portfolio Allocation, Presidential Popularity, and Electoral Payoffs to Parties in Multiparty Presidentialism.” Party Politics, online first at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13540688231168603.

(with Wendy Hunter) “Lula’s Second Act.” Journal of Democracy 34, no. 1 (January 2023): 126-140.

(with Paul Chaisty) “Does Power Always Flow to the Executive? Interbranch Oscillations in Legislative Authority, 1976-2014.” Government and Opposition 58, no. 1 (January 2023): 61-83.

(with Cesar Zucco Jr.) “Fragmentation Without Cleavages? Endogenous Fractionalization in the Brazilian Party System.” Comparative Politics 53, no. 3 (April 2021): 477-500.

(with James Loxton) “Introducing Authoritarian Diasporas: Causes and Consequences of Authoritarian Elite Dispersion.” Democratization 28, no. 3 (March 2021): 465-484. 

(with Paul Chaisty and Nic Cheeseman) “Inside the Coordination Paradigm: New Perspectives on Minority Presidents and Coalition Management.” In Rudy B. Andeweg, Robert Elgie, Ludger Helms, Juliet Kaarbo, and Ferdinand Müller-Rommel, eds., Oxford Handbook of Political Executives (Oxford University Press, 2020): 420-437.

(with David Doyle) “Presidential Power and Party Strength: The ‘Inverse Relationship’ Reconsidered.” Political Studies Review 18, no. 1 (February 2020): 108-124.

(with Cesar Zucco Jr. and Mariana Batista) “Measuring Portfolio Salience Using the Bradley-Terry Model: An Illustration with Data from Brazil.” Research & Politics 6, no. 1 (January-March 2019): 1-8.

(with Paul Chaisty) “Flying Solo: Explaining Single-Party Cabinets under Minority Presidentialism.” European Journal of Political Research 58, no. 1 (February 2019): 163-183.

(with Wendy Hunter) “Bolsonaro and Brazil’s Illiberal Backlash.” Journal of Democracy 30, no 1 (January 2019): 68-82.

(with Rodrigo Rodrigues-Silveira) “Mapping Ideological Preferences in Brazilian Elections, 1994-2018: A Municipal-Level Study.” Brazilian Political Science Review 13, no. 1 (2019): 1-27.

(with Leany Lemos and Lucio Rennó) “Supervisión, control y monitoreo en Brasil, 1991-2012.” In Rodrigo Velázquez López Velarde, ed., Supervisión Legislativa en América Latina (Mexico City: Fundo de Cultura Económica, 2018): 343-366.

(with Rodrigo Rodrigues-Silveira) “The Political Right and Party Politics.” In Barry Ames, ed., Routledge Handbook of Brazilian Politics (Routledge, 2018): 251-268.

“The Contrasting Trajectories of Brazil’s Two Authoritarian Successor Parties.” In James Loxton and Scott Mainwaring, eds., Life After Dictatorship: Authoritarian Successor Parties Worldwide (Cambridge University Press, 2018): 229-253.

(with Frances Hagopian) “Politics in Brazil.” In G. Bingham J. Powell Jr., Russell J. Dalton, and Kaare Strom, eds., Comparative Politics Today: A World View, 12th edition (New York: Pearson Longman, 2018): 422-465.

(with Scott Mainwaring and Fernando Bizzarro) “The Uneven Institutionalization of a Party System: Brazil.” In Scott Mainwaring, ed., Party Systems in Latin America: Institutionalization, Decay, and Collapse (Cambridge University Press, 2018): 164-200.