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Overview

Barbara Geddes is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research contributions are documented through several publications in notable academic venues.

Their recent published papers include:

  • The Consequences of Military Rule: Juntas Versus Strongmen (2020) - Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
  • Member Spotlights (2021) - Political Science Today

Frequent publication venues for their work are:

  • Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
  • Political Science Today

Coauthors who have collaborated with them on research projects include:

  • Tatiana Nieves
  • Michael Hanchard
  • Gregory A. Huber
  • Andrew D. Martin
  • Daniel Posner

Best Publications

  • What Do We Know About Democratization After Twenty Years

    Barbara Geddes

  • Politician's Dilemma: Building State Capacity in Latin America

    Barbara Geddes

  • Autocratic breakdown and regime transitions: A new data set

    Barbara Geddes;Joseph Wright;Erica Frantz

  • Paradigms and Sand Castles: Theory Building and Research Design in Comparative Politics

    Barbara Geddes

  • How the Cases You Choose Affect the Answers You Get: Selection Bias in Comparative Politics

    Barbara Geddes

  • Sources of Popular Support for Authoritarian Regimes

    Barbara Geddes;John Zaller

  • Decentralization and the Quality of Government

    Daniel Treisman;Sanchita Bannerjee;Stephen Bloom;Anton Rushakov

  • Oil and Autocratic Regime Survival

    Joseph Wright;Erica Frantz;Barbara Geddes

  • How Dictatorships Work: Power, Personalization, and Collapse

    Barbara Geddes;Joseph Wright;Erica Frantz

  • How Dictatorships Work

    Barbara Geddes;Joseph Wright;Erica Frantz

  • A Game Theoretic Model of Reform in Latin American Democracies

    Barbara Geddes

  • Building "State" Autonomy in Brazil, 1930-1964

    Barbara Geddes

  • A Comparative Perspective on the Leninist Legacy in Eastern Europe

    Barbara Geddes

  • Institutional sources of corruption in Brazil

    Barbara Geddes;Artur Ribeiro Neto

  • Paradigms and Sand Castles

    Barbara Geddes

  • Challenging the Conventional Wisdom

    Barbara Geddes

  • New Theoretical Perspectives on Democratization@@@Economic Reforms in New Democracies: A Social-Democratic Approach@@@Politician's Dilemma: Building State Capacity in Latin America@@@Elites and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America and Southern Europe@@@Capitalist Development and Democracy

    Karen L. Remmer;Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira;Jose Maria Maravall;Adam Przeworski

  • Are coups good for democracy

    George Derpanopoulos;Erica Frantz;Barbara Geddes;Joseph Wright

  • What Causes Democratization

    Barbara Geddes

  • Seizing Power: The Strategic Logic of Military Coups by Naunihal Singh. Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. 264 pp. $59.95.

    Barbara Geddes

  • The Politics of Economic Liberalization

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  • Initiation of New Democratic Institutions in Eastern Europe and Latin America

    Barbara Geddes

  • Democracy and the Market: Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America. By Adam Przeworski. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. 210p. $39.50 cloth, $12.95 paper.

    Barbara Geddes

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph Wright
Joseph Wright Pennsylvania State University
Adam Przeworski
Adam Przeworski New York University
Daniel Treisman
Daniel Treisman University of California, Los Angeles
Raymond M. Duch
Raymond M. Duch University of Oxford
Sidney Tarrow
Sidney Tarrow Cornell University
Susan Rose-Ackerman
Susan Rose-Ackerman Yale University
Richard Gunther
Richard Gunther The Ohio State University
John Gerring
John Gerring The University of Texas at Austin
James Mahoney
James Mahoney Northwestern University
Elinor Ostrom
Elinor Ostrom Indiana University

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