SIAVELIS PUBLICATIONS
Books
Getting Immigration Right: What Every American Needs to Know, edited volume with David Coates (Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2009), 290 pages.
http://www.potomacbooksinc.com/books/BookDetail.aspx?productid=186452
Pathways to Power: Political Recruitment and Candidate Selection in Latin America, edited volume with Scott Morgenstern. (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008), 440 pages.
Reviewed in: Choice, Latin American Politics and Society, Revista de Ciencia Política.
http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-03375-4.html
The President and Congress in Post-Authoritarian Chile: Institutional Constraints to Democratic Consolidation (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000), 245 pages.
Reviewed in: American Political Science Review, América Latina Hoy, Choice, Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, International Affairs, Journal of Latin American Studies, Latin American Research Review.
http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/0-271-01947-6.html
Journal Articles
“Did Success Spoil the Concertación?” Americas Quarterly, 4:2 (Spring 2010): 28-32.
http://www.americasquarterly.org/node/1490
“Elite-Mass Congruence, Partidocracia and the Quality of Chilean Democracy,” Journal of Politics in Latin America, 1:3 (2009): 3-31.
http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jpla/article/view/110
“Enclaves de la transición y democracia chilena,” Revista de Ciencia Política, 29:1 (2009): 3-21.
http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?pid=S0718-090X2009000100001&script=sci_arttext
“Bachelet’s Chile: Business as Usual?” Global Dialogue, 10 (2009): 79-89.
http://www.worlddialogue.org/content.php?id=430
“Candidate Selection and Recruitment in Latin America: A Framework for Analysis,” Latin American Politics and Society, 50:4 (Winter 2008): 27-58, with Scott Morgenstern.
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121567393/abstract
“Candidate Selection Procedures in Transitional Politics: A Research Note,” Party Politics, 14:5 (2008): 619-638, with Bonnie Field.
http://ppq.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/14/5/620
“How New is Bachelet’s Chile?” Current History, 106: 697 (February 2007): 70-76.
http://www.currenthistory.com/Article.php?ID=455
“Electoral Reform Doesn’t Matter—or Does it?: A Moderate PR System for Chile,” Revista de Ciencia Política, 26:1 (2006): 216-225.
http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?pid=S0718-090X2006000100015&script=sci_arttext
“Insurance for Good Losers and the Survival of Chile’s Concertación,” Latin American Politics and Society, 47:2(Summer 2005): 1-22, with John Carey.
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121570047/abstract
[Published in Spanish as, "El seguro para los subcampeones electorales y la sobrevivencia de la Concertación," Estudios Públicos, 90 (Fall, 2003): 5-27, with John Carey.] http://www.cepchile.cl/dms/lang_1/doc_3189.html
“Los peligros de la ingeniería electoral (y de predecir sus efectos),” Política, 45 (Spring 2005): 9-28.
http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/src/inicio/ArtPdfRed.jsp?iCve=64504501
“Electoral System, Coalitional Disintegration and Democracy in Chile,” Latin American Research Review, 40:1 (2005): 56-82.
http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/latin_american_research_review/v040/40.1siavelis.pdf
[Published in Spanish as, “Sistema electoral, desintegración de coaliciones y democracia en Chile: ¿El fin de la Concertación?” Revista de Ciencia Política, 24:1 (2004): 58-80.]
http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?pid=S0718-090X2004000100003&script=sci_arttext
“Democracy, Institutions, and Political Parties in Latin America,” (Review Essay) Latin American Research Review, 39:2 (2004): 275-290.
http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/latin_american_research_review/v039/39.2siavelis.html
“The Hidden Logic of Candidate Selection for Chilean Parliamentary Elections,” Comparative Politics, 34:4 (July 2002): 419-438.
http://www.jstor.org/pss/4146946
[Revised and updated version published in Spanish as, “La lógica oculta de la selección de candidatos en las elecciones parlamentarias chilenas,” Estudios Públicos, 98 (Fall 2005): 189-225.]
http://www.cepchile.cl/dms/lang_1/doc_3540.html
“Coalitions, Voters and Party System Transformation in Post-Authoritarian Chile,” Government and Opposition, 37:1 (Winter 2002): 76-105.
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118907283/abstract
“Continuidad y transformación en el sistema de partidos chilenos: Sobre los cambios ocasionados por el sistema electoral,” Revista de Ciencia Política, 20:2 (Spring 2001): 82-102.
“Disconnected Fire Alarms and Ineffective Police Patrols: Legislative Oversight in Post-Authoritarian Chile,” Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, 42:1 (Spring 2000): 71-98.
http://www.jstor.org/pss/166466
“Continuity and Change in the Chilean Party System: On the Transformational Effects of Electoral Reform,” Comparative Political Studies, 30:6 (December 1997): 651-674.
http://cps.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/30/6/651
"Nuevos argumentos y viejos supuestos: Simulaciones de sistemas electorales alternativos," Estudios Públicos, 51 (Winter 1993): 229-267.
http://www.cepchile.cl/dms/lang_1/doc_1320.html
"Ley electoral y estabilidad democrática: Un ejercicio de simulación para el caso de Chile," Estudios Públicos, 43 (Winter 1991): 27-87, with Arturo Valenzuela.
http://www.cepchile.cl/dms/lang_1/doc_1320.html
Book Chapters
“What it Takes to Win and What it Takes to Govern: Michelle Bachelet and the Concertación,” in Sylvia Bortzusky and Greg Weeks, eds. The Bachelet Government and the Future of Democracy in Chile (Coral Gables, FL: The University of Florida Press, 2010): 27-49.
http://www.upf.com/book.asp?id=BORZU002
“Consecuencias intencionales e involuntarias de la reforma electoral: seis lecciones de Chile,” in Igor Vivero, ed. Democracia y reformas políticas en México y América Latina (México City: UAEM, 2010): 171-198.
“Procedimientos de selección de candidatos en las democracias nacientes,” in Flavia Friedenberg and Manuel Alcántara, eds. Selección de candidatos, política partidista y rendimiento democrático (México City: UNAM, 2009): 61-84, with Bonnie Field.
http://americo.usal.es/iberoame/?q=node/466
“Introduction,” in David Coates and Peter Siavelis, eds. Getting Immigration Right: What Every American Needs to Know (Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2009): 1-14, with David Coates.
http://www.potomacbooksinc.com/books/BookDetail.aspx?productid=186452
“Beyond Push and Pull: Neoliberalsm, NAFTA, Immigration Policy and the Structural Incentives for Mexican Immigration,” in David Coates and Peter Siavelis, eds. Getting Immigration Right: What Every American Needs to Know (Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2009): 97-114.
http://www.potomacbooksinc.com/books/BookDetail.aspx?productid=186452
“Executive-Legislative Relations and Democracy in Latin America,” in Richard Millett, Jennifer Holmes, and Orlando Pérez, eds. Latin American Democracy: Emerging Reality or Endangered Species? (New York: Routledge, 2009): 101-118.
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415990486/
“Political Recruitment and Candidate Selection in Latin America: A Framework for Analysis,” in Peter Siavelis and Scott Morgenstern, eds. Pathways to Power: Political Recruitment and Candidate Selection in Latin America (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008): 3-37 with Scott Morgenstern.
http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-03375-4.html
[Published in Spanish as “Reclutamiento político, selección de candidatos y democracia en América Latina,” in Flavia Friedenberg and Manuel Alcántara, eds. Selección de candidatos, política partidista y rendimiento democrático (México City: UNAM, 2009): 85-130, with Scott Morgenstern.]
http://americo.usal.es/iberoame/?q=node/466
“Pathways to Power and Democracy in Latin America,” in Peter Siavelis and Scott Morgenstern, eds. Pathways to Power: Political Recruitment and Candidate Selection in Latin America (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008): 371-402, with Scott Morgenstern.
http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-03375-4.html
“Chile: The End of the Unfinished Transition,” in Michael Shifter and Jorge Domínguez, eds. Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008): 177-208.
http://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/ecom/MasterServlet/GetItemDetailsHandler?iN=9780801890048&qty=1&source=2&viewMode=3&loggedIN=false&JavaScript=y
“Accommodating Informal Institutions and Democracy in Chile,” in Gretchen Helmke and Steven Levitsky, eds. Informal Institutions and Democracy: Lessons from Latin America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006): 33-55.
http://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/ecom/MasterServlet/GetItemDetailsHandler?iN=9780801883514&qty=1&source=2&viewMode=3&loggedIN=false&JavaScript=y
“Insurance for Good Losers and the End of the Concertación,” in Gretchen Helmke and Steven Levitsky, eds. Informal Institutions and Democracy: Lessons from Latin America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006): 160-178, with John Carey.
http://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/ecom/MasterServlet/GetItemDetailsHandler?iN=9780801883514&qty=1&source=2&viewMode=3&loggedIN=false&JavaScript=y
“Political Recruitment, Candidate Selection, and the Performance of Democratic Regimes,” in Cesar Arias and Beatriz Ramacciotti, eds. Presidencialismo y parlamentarismo en América Latina (Washington, DC: The Organization of American States, 2005): 117-125.
“Party and Social Structure,” in Richard Katz and William Crotty, eds. Handbook of Political Parties (London: Sage, 2005): 359-370.
http://www.sagepub.com/booksProdDesc.nav?prodId=Book226149&#tabview=title
“Chile: The Unexpected (and Expected) Consequences of Electoral Engineering,” in Michael Gallagher and Paul Mitchell, eds. The Politics of Electoral Systems (London: Oxford University Press, 2005): 433-452.
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Politics/ComparativePolitics/ComparativePolitics/?view=usa&ci=9780199257560#Description
“Chile: A Strong State,” in Peter Burnell and Vicki Randall, eds. Politics in the Developing World (London: Oxford University Press, 2005): 297-307.
“Santiago: Municipal Decentralization in a Centralized Political System,” in Henry Dietz and David Meyers, eds. Capital City Politics in Latin America: Democratization and Empowerment Municipal (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Press, 2002): 265-296, with Esteban Valenzuela and Giorgio Martelli.
http://www.rienner.com/title/Capital_City_Politics_in_Latin_America_Democratization_and_Empowerment
“Exaggerated Presidentialism and Moderate Presidents: Executive/Legislative Relations in Chile,” in Scott Morgenstern and Benito Nacif , eds. Legislative Politics in Latin America (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002): 79-113.
http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521792196
“Continuidad y transformación del sistema de partidos en una transición ‘modelo’,” in Paul Drake and Iván Jaksic, eds. El modelo chileno: Democracia y desarrollo en los noventa (Santiago: LOM ediciones, 1999): 223-260.
http://www.lom.cl/inicio/entrada.asp?portal=3
“Executive-Legislative Relations in Post-Pinochet Chile: A Preliminary Assessment," in Matthew Shugart and Scott Mainwaring, eds. Presidentialism and Democracy in Latin America (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997): 321-362.
http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521576147
[Revised and updated Spanish version published as, “Relaciones ejecutivos-legislativos en la nueva democracia chilena,” in Jorge Lanzaro, ed. Tipos de presidencialismo y coaliciones políticas en América Latina (Buenos Aires: CLACSO, 2001): 203-250.]
http://bibliotecavirtual.clacso.org.ar/ar/libros/lanzaro/lanzaro.html
"Electoral Engineering and Democratic Stability: The Legacy of Authoritarian Rule in Chile," in Carlos Waisman and Arend Lijphart, eds. Institutional Design in New Democracies (Boulder CO: Westview Press, 1996): 77-99, with Arturo Valenzuela.
http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/westview/book_detail.jsp?isbn=0813321093
[Published in Spanish as “Ley electoral y estabilidad democrática: Un ejercicio de simulación para el caso de Chile a partir de las elecciones de 1989,” in Rodolfo Cerdas, et al, eds. Una tarea inconclusa: Elecciones y democracia en América Latina (San José, Costa Rica: IIDH-CAPEL, 1992): 533-576, with Arturo Valenzuela.]
Book Reviews, Review Essays, Working Papers, Research Reports, Encyclopedia Entries and Commentary
Regular Contributing Political Columnist, Qué Pasa, (State-wide, North Carolina Spanish Language Newspaper), 2008 to present.
Contributions to the Latin American Advisor (Inter-American Dialogue: Washington, DC).
On the results of the Chilean presidential election, January 27, 2010.
On Chilean-Bolivian relations, January 24, 2006.
On Chilean constitutional reform, July 20, 2005.
On Chilean-Argentine spying incident, November 24, 2003.
http://www.thedialogue.org/page.cfm?pageID=43
Review Essay, “Chile: Political Economy,” Handbook of Latin American Studies, Washington, DC: The Library of Congress (Vol. 65: Fall 2010).
Working Paper, “The Determinants of Candidate Selection Procedures in New Democracies: Evidence from Spain (1977-1982) and Chile (1989-2005),” Law Faculty, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Madrid, Spain, November 2009, No. 109, with Bonnie Field.
http://www.bentley.edu/faculty/field-bonnie/documents/Field-Siavelis-2009-UAM.pdf
Review of El Díscolo by Patricio Navia (Santiago, Chile: Random House Monadori, 2009) in Americas Quarterly, on-line exclusive (November 2009).
http://www.americasquarterly.org/node/1077/
Review of In the Name of Reason: Technocrats and Politics in Chile by Patricio Silva (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008) in Latin American Politics and Society, 51:4 (Winter 2009): 189-192.
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123189960/abstract
Working Paper, “The Bachelet Administration: The Normalization of Politics?” Center for Latin American Studies, University of California at Berkeley. Berkeley, California, August 2009, No. 28, with Kirsten Sehnbruch.
http://www.clas.berkeley.edu/Publications/workingpapers/SehnbruchSiavelis/index.html
Review Essay, “Chile: Political Economy,” Handbook of Latin American Studies, Washington, DC: The Library of Congress (Vol. 63: Fall 2008): 549-555.
Review of Gender Politics in Brazil and Chile: The Role of Parties in National and Local Policymaking by Fiona Macaulay (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, in association with St. Antony’s College, Oxford, 2006) in Journal of Latin American Studies, 40:1 (February 2008):165-167.
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=1673624&fulltextType=BR&fileId=S0022216X07003823
Encyclopedia Entry, “Michelle Bachelet,” in World Book Encyclopedia (Chicago: World Book Encyclopedia, February 2008).
http://photo.pds.org:5005/wb/Article?id=ar752575
Encyclopedia Entry, “Chilean Christian Democratic Party,” in Gale Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture (Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2008).
http://www.gale.cengage.com/servlet/ItemDetailServlet?region=9&imprint=000&titleCode=S79&type=4&cf=p&id=186911
Review Essay, “Chile: Political Economy,” Handbook of Latin American Studies, Washington, DC: The Library of Congress (Vol. 61: Spring 2006): 549-554.
Review of The Pinochet Effect: Transnational Justice in the Age of Human Rights, by Naomi Roht-Arriaza (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005) in Review of Politics, 68:2 (Spring 2006): 334-336.
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=441043&fulltextType=BR&fileId=S0034670506230134
Review of Transforming Labor Based Parties in Latin American: Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective, by Steven Levitsky (Cambridge University Press, 2003) in Perspectives on Politics, 2:2 (June 2004): 409-10.
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=234570&fulltextType=BR&fileId=S1537592704780974
Review of Economic Reforms in Chile: From Dictatorship to Democracy, by Ricardo Ffrench-Davis(University of Michigan Press, 2002) in Latin American Politics and Society, 45:3 (Fall 2003):153-58.
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121569818/abstract
Review of Legislative Institutions and Ideology in Chile, by John Londregan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001) in American Political Science Review, 95:4 (December 2001): 1021-1022.
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=104018&fulltextType=BR&fileId=S0003055401320166
Review of Democratic Institutional Design, by Brian Crisp (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000) in Latin American Politics and Society, 43:1 (Spring 2001):164-167.
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121570025/abstract
Review of Regional Mechanism and International Security, by Olga Pellicer (New York: United Nations University Press), in Ethnic Conflict Research Digest, 2:2 (October 1999):49-50.
http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/services/ecrd/digests/ECRD4.pdf
Rapporteur's Report, "Multilateral Governance in the Western Hemisphere - A Rapporteur's Report," The Inter-American Dialogue, Washington, DC, June 1995.
Rapporteur’s Report, "Inter-American Peace, Security, and Democracy Planning Workshop - A Rapporteur's Report," The Inter-American Dialogue, Washington, DC, April 1995.
Working Paper, “Sistemas Electorales Alternativos: Dos Proposiciones,” Centro de Estudios Públicos. Santiago, Chile, March 1993, No. 193,with José María Fuentes.
In Press and Forthcoming
Refereed Journal Article, “The Determinants of Candidate Selection Procedures in Democratizing Countries: Evidence from Europe and Latin America,” forthcoming in Democratization.
Book Chapter, “La selección de candidatos para el poder legislativo en América Latina: de dónde venimos y nuevos caminos de investigación,” in Manuel Alcántara and Mercedes Garcia, eds. Algo más que presidentes. El papel del poder legislativo en América Latina (Madrid: Editorial Fundación Manuel Giménez Abad, Fall 2010), with Bonnie Field.
Encyclopedia Entry, “Binomial System,” in International Encyclopedia of Political Science, ed. George Currian, (Washington, DC: CQ Press, Fall 2010).
Encyclopedia Entry, “Party and Social Structure,” in International Encyclopedia of Political Science, ed. George Currian, (Washington, DC: CQ Press, Fall 2010).
Review of The Dictator’s Shadow, by Heraldo Muñoz (New York: Basic Books, 2000) in Journal of Third World Studies, (Fall 2010).