Michael Coppedge
Professor of Political Science
(PhD, Yale University, 1988)
Academic Office:
238 Hesburgh Center
574-631-7036
email: mcoppedg@nd.edu
www.nd.edu/~mcoppedg/crd/
Geographic focus: Latin America (Venezuela, Andean countries); cross-regional
Thematic interests: Democratization, quality of democracy; Latin American parties and party systems; Venezuelan politics; Methodology of comparative politics.
Current research: Varieties of Democracy; the conditions that promote stable democracy, especially in Latin America; and the factors that have shaped party systems in eleven Latin American countries, employing both case studies and quantitative analysis.
Selected publications:
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“Variedades de democracia: un enfoque histórico, multidimensional y desagregado” (with John Gerring and Staffan I. Lindberg), Revista Española de Ciencia Política 30 (2012)
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Democratization and Research Methods (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
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“Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy: A New Approach” (with John Gerring, David Altman, Michael Bernhard, Steven Fish, Allen Hicken, Matthew Kroenig, Staffan I. Lindberg, Kelly Mcmann, Pamela Paxton, Holli A. Semetko, Svend-Erik Skaaning, Jeffrey Staton, and Jan Teorell), Perspectives On Politics 9, 2 (June 2011)
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“Two Persistent Dimensions of Democracy: Contestation and Inclusiveness” (with Angel Alvarez and Claudia Maldonado), Journal of Politics 70:3 (July 2008)
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“Continuity and Change in Latin American Party Systems,” Taiwan Journal of Democracy 3:2 (December 2007)
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“Theory Building and Hypothesis Testing: Large- vs. Small-N Research on Democratization,” in Gerardo Munck, ed., Regimes and Democracy in Latin America, Vol. I: Theories and Findings (2007)
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“Diffusion Is No Illusion: Neighbor Emulation in the Third Wave of Democracy” (with Daniel Brinks), Comparative Political Studies (May 2006)
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“Explaining Democratic Deterioration in Venezuela Through Nested Inference,” in Frances Hagopian and Scott Mainwaring, eds., The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America (2005)
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“Soberanía popular versus democracia liberal en Venezuela,” in Jorge I. Domínguez and Michael Shifter, eds., Construyendo gobernabilidad democrática (2005)
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“Latin American Parties: Political Darwinism in the Lost Decade,” in Larry Diamond and Richard Gunther, eds., Political Parties and Democracy (2001)
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“The Dynamic Diversity of Latin American Party Systems,” Party Politics (October 1998)
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Strong Parties and Lame Ducks: Presidential Partyarchy and Factionalism in Venezuela (1994)
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Numerous articles on comparative and Latin American politics in Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, The Journal of Democracy, and Studies in Comparative International Development, among others
Working Papers:
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#294 Venezuela: Popular Sovereignty versus Liberal Democracy
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#268 Venezuela: Conservative Representation Without Conservative Parties
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