A.
Overview of Research
My scholarship
centers on issues of political reform and democratization
in Latin America, and more specifically, Colombia.
In broad terms, my work is informed by a normative
commitment to human rights and participatory democracy, and
is guided by an intellectual curiosity regarding the empirical
causes of, and obstacles to, democratic reform. In my research
I have been particularly concerned with analyzing: a) efforts
to introduce democratic reform to the Colombian political
regime, and b) obstacles to effective democratic consolidation
in Colombia. My concern
with these empirical issues has led to a number of different
research projects and publications over the years.
B. Publications Forthcoming
·“Colombia,”
in Neal Tate, ed., Governments of the World. (New
York: Macmillan Reference, 2005).
· “Colombia,”
in Harry E. Vanden and Gary Prevost, eds., Politics of
Latin America, second edition. (Oxford University Press,
2005).
C. Publications
· “The
Colombian Nightmare: Human Rights Abuses and the Contradictory
Effects of U.S. Foreign Policy” in Cecilia Menjívar
and Nestor Rodríguez, eds., When States Kill: Latin
America, the U.S. and Technologies of Terror. (Austin:
University of Texas Press, 2005).
· “Colombian
Attitudes toward the United States after 9/11” in Vladimir
Shlapentock, Joshua Woods, and Eric Shiraev, eds., America:
Sovereign Defender or Cowboy Nation (Ashgate, 2005).
· “The
Emergence of Neopopulism in Colombia? The Case of Álvaro
Uribe,” Third World Quarterly (Volume 24, No.
6, 2003).
· “The
Origin, Impact, and Demise of the 1989-1990 Colombian Student
Movement: Insights from Social Movement Theory” Journal
of Latin American Studies (Volume 33, No. 4, 2001).
· “Drugs,
Lies, and Audiotape: Political Corruption in Colombia”
Latin American Research Review (Volume 36, No. 2,
2001).
· “The
Conservative Party and the Crisis of Political Legitimacy
in Colombia,” In Kevin J. Middlebrook, ed., Conservative
Parties, the Right, and Democracy in Latin America (Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000).
· “Diversidad
y Retos en la Descentralización Municipal en Colombia,”
with Angélica Ocampo, Luis Javier Orjuela, and Germ
Ruiz, America Latina Hoy, No. 24 (Abril 2000), 45-54.
· “Colombia:
The Politics of Violence and Democratic Transformation,”
with Jonathan Hartlyn. In Larry Diamond, Jonathan Hartlyn,
Juan J. Linz, and Seymour Martin Lipset, eds., Democracy
in Developing Countries: Latin America, 2nd edition (Boulder,
CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999).
· “Colombia”
in 1997-1998 State of World Conflict Report (Atlanta:
The Carter Center, 1998).
· Structure
and Agency in Explaining Democratization: Insights from the
Colombian Case, Occasional Paper No. 23. (Bloomington:
Indiana Center on Global Change and World Peace, 1994).
· "La
Constitución Política de 1991: ¿Un pacto
político viable?" in John Dugas, ed., La Constitución
de 1991: ¿Un Pacto Político Viable? (Bogotá:
Universidad de los Andes - Departamento de Ciencia Política,
1993).
· "El
desarrollo de la Asamblea Nacional Constituyente" in
John Dugas, ed., La Constitución de 1991: ¿Un
Pacto Político Viable? (Bogotá: Universidad
de los Andes - Departamento de Ciencia Política, 1993).
· "La
reforma descentralista en diez municipios: Un estudio empírico
y una explicación teórica" in John Dugas,
et. al., Los Caminos de la Descentralización: Diversidad
y Retos de la Transformación Municipal, (Bogotá:
Universidad de los Andes - Departamento de Ciencia Política,
1992).
· "La
Asamblea Nacional Constituyente, expresión de una voluntad
general", with Rubén Sánchez and Elizabeth
Ungar, in Rubén Sánchez David, ed., Los
Nuevos Retos Electorales -- Colombia 1990: Antesala del Cambio,
(Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes- CEREC, 1991).
D. Conference
Papers and Public Presentations
For
a list of my conference papers and public presentations, please
see my curriculum vitae.
