Jose Antonio Cheibub

Job Title

Associate Professor

Organization

University of Illinois

Country

United States

Area of Expertise

  • Conflict
  • Gender and constitutions
  • Diversity
  • Customary governance/legal pluralism
  • Human rights
  • Judicial system design
  • Minority issues
  • Participation
  • Power sharing (horizontal/vertical)
  • Religion
  • Security sector

Publications

Books:

Presidentialism, Parliamentarism and Democracy. Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Democracy Sourcebook. MIT Press, September 2003. Co-editor with Robert Dahl and Ian Shapiro.

Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Material Well-Being in the World, 1950-1990. Cambridge University Press, 2000. With Adam Przeworski, Fernando Limongi, and Michael Alvarez.

Journal Articles

“Presidentialism, Electoral Identifiability, and Budget Balances in Democratic Systems.” American Political Science Review 100(3):335-350, August 2006.

“Government Coalitions and Legislative Success Under Parliamentarism and Presidentialism.” British Journal of Political Science 34:565-87, October 2004. With Adam Przeworski and Sebastian Saiegh.

“Minority Governments, Deadlock Situations, and the Survival of Presidential Democracies.” Comparative Political Studies 35(3):284-312, April 2002.

“Governos de Coalizão nas Democracias Presidencialistas e Parlamentaristas.” Dados 45(2), June 2002. With Adam Przeworski and Sebastian Saiegh.

“Democratic Institutions and Regime Survival: Parliamentarism and Presidentialism Reconsidered.” Annual Review of Political Science 2002. With Fernando Limongi.

“Political Regimes and the Extractive Capacity of Governments: Taxation in Democracies and Dictatorships.” World Politics 50(3), April 1998.

“Democracia, Eleições e Responsabilidade Política." Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais 12:49-61, October 1997, São Paulo, Brazil. With Adam Przeworsk.

"Classifying Political Regimes." Studies in Comparative International Development 31(2):3-36, 1996. With Adam Przeworski, Michael Alvarez and Fernando Limongi.

"What Makes Democracies Endure?" Journal of Democracy 7(1):39-55, January 1996. With Adam Przeworski, Michael Alvarez and Fernando Limongi. Published in Spanish Agora 3(5):67-87, 1996; in Portuguese in Lua Nova: Revista de Cultura e Política 40/41:113-136, 1997; in Polish in Civitas (Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences).

"Mobilizing and Sustaining Collective Action in the Mexican Revolution." Politics and Society 23(2):243- 258, June 1995.

"Why Do Governments Grow? A Comparative Analysis of 18 Latin American Countries." Dados: Revista de Ciências Sociais 33(3), 1990. Rio de Janeiro, IUPERJ.

Book Chapters

“Presidentialism and Democratic Performance.” In Andrew Reynolds, ed. Constitutional Design: Institutional Design, Conflict Management, and Democracy in the Late Twentieth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. pp. 104-140.

“Democracy, Elections, and Accountability for Economic Outcomes.” In Adam Przeworski, Susan C. Stokes, and Bernard Manin, eds. Democracy and Accountability. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. With Adam Przeworski. pp. 222-250.

"Political Regimes, Government Expenditure and Economic Growth" in Albert Breton, Gianlugi Galeotti, Pierre Salmon and Ronald Wintrobe, eds. Understanding Democracy: Economic and Political Perspectives. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. With Adam Przeworski. pp.107-124.

"Culture and Democracy." World Culture Report 1997. UNESCO. With Adam Przeworski, and Fernando Limongi. Also published as “Democracy and Political Culture” in Metapolitica 8(3):52-69, 2004.

Other Publications:

“BRAZIL: Candidate-Centred PR in a Presidential System” in International Handbook of Electoral Systems, 2005 edition. Stockholm, Sweden.

“Systems of Government: Parliamentarism and Presidentialism.” Briefing Paper for the Constitutional Drafting Commission of Afghanistan. Center for International Cooperation, New York University, 2003.

Book Review: Markets and Democracy in Latin America: Conflict or Convergence? Philip Oxhorn and Pamela K. Starr, eds. Canadian Review of Political Science 33(1), March 2000.

“Data Optimism in Comparative Politics: The Importance of Being Earnest.” APSA-CP: Newsletter of the APSA Organized Section in Comparative Politics. Summer 1999.

"Democracy and Property Rights: Is There a Link?" Working Papers on Democracy and Development #5. Chicago Center on Democracy, University of Chicago, 1995.

"O Voto do Analfabeto: Limites de Participaçao e Cidadania." Textos IDESP. Sao Paulo, Instituto de Estudos Econômicos, Sociais e Políticos de Sao Paulo, 1988.

Capacidade de Governo no Serviço de Transporte Público: O Caso de São Paulo. São Paulo, IDESP, 1986. Série Monográfica no.3.

"Educação e Cidadania: A Exclusão Política dos Analfabetos no Brasil." Cuadernos de Capel, no.4. San José, Costa Rica, Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, Centro de Asesoria y Promocion Electoral. Also published in: Textos IDESP, no.9. Sao Paulo, IDESP. With Maria Tereza Sadek.

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