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Overview

Fabrice Lehoucq is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with a strong emphasis on political science and international relations, sociology and political science, anthropology, history, and philosophy of science.

The scientific work of Fabrice Lehoucq covers topics central to Latin American politics and society, including politics and society in Latin America, political and social dynamics in Chile and Latin America, political conflict and governance, colonialism, slavery, and trade. They have also explored themes related to communism, protests, social movements, populism, right-wing movements, and historical studies with socio-cultural analysis.

Lehoucq's recent scholarly contributions include the following papers:

  • "Bolivia's Citizen Revolt," 2020, published in Journal of democracy
  • "Campaigns, Elections, and Regimes in Latin America," 2022, published in Latin American Research Review
  • "Military Coups d'État and Their Causes," 2021, published in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
  • "Costa Rica - The Saints of Progress: A History of Coffee, Migration, and Costa Rican National Identity. By Carmen Kordick. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2019. Pp. xv, 268. Abbreviations. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $49.95 cloth.," 2021, published in The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History
  • "Brazilian Abolition - The Sacred Cause: The Abolitionist Movement, Afro-Brazilian Mobilization, and Imperial Politics in Rio de Janeiro. By Jeffrey D. Needell. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020. Pp. xvii, 361. Notes. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. $75.00 cloth.," 2021, published in The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History

Lehoucq has published multiple works in a range of academic venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History
  • Latin American Research Review
  • Journal of Latin American Studies
  • Journal of democracy
  • Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics

The research topics and academic subfields are tightly integrated, highlighting interdisciplinary approaches to understanding complex political and social phenomena in Latin America. They have contributed to 14 publications in social sciences and have a specialized focus through 7 publications in sociology and political science as well as 4 in political science and international relations. Anthropology and historical studies also appear among their contributions.

Best Publications

  • ELECTORAL FRAUD: Causes, Types, and Consequences

    Fabrice Lehoucq

  • Stuffing the Ballot Box: Fraud, Electoral Reform, and Democratization in Costa Rica

    Fabrice E. Lehoucq;Ivan Molina

  • MEASURING POLITICAL DEMOCRACY Case Expertise, Data Adequacy, and Central America

    Kirk Bowman;Fabrice Lehoucq;James Mahoney

  • Policymaking in Latin America: How Politics Shapes Policies

    Pablo T. Spiller;Ernesto H. Stein;Mariano Tommasi;Carlos Scartascini

  • Municipal Politics and Forest Governance: Comparative Analysis of Decentralization in Bolivia and Guatemala

    Krister P. Andersson;Clark C. Gibson;Fabrice Lehoucq

  • Can Parties Police Themselves? Electoral Governance and Democratization

    Fabrice E. Lehoucq

  • Can parties police themselves? Electoral Governance and Democratization

    Fabrice E. Lehoucq

  • The Local Politics of Decentralized Environmental Policy in Guatemala

    Clark C. Gibson;Fabrice E. Lehoucq

  • El juego político en América Latina: ¿Cómo se deciden las políticas públicas?

    Carlos Scartascini;Pablo T. Spiller;Ernesto H. Stein;Mariano Tommasi

  • Does Privatization Protect Natural Resources? Property Rights and Forests in Guatemala

    Clark C. Gibson;Fabrice E. Lehoucq;John T. Williams

  • Bolivia's Constitutional Breakdown

    Fabrice Lehoucq

  • COSTA RICA: PARADISE IN DOUBT

    Fabrice Edouard Lehoucq

  • Breaking Out of the Coup Trap: Political Competition and Military Coups in Latin America

    Fabrice Lehoucq;Aníbal Pérez-Liñán

  • The Politics of Modern Central America: Civil War, Democratization, and Underdevelopment

    Fabrice Edouard Lehoucq

  • Explaining voter turnout rates in new democracies: Guatemala

    Fabrice Edouard Lehoucq;David L. Wall

  • The Politics of Decentralized Natural Resource Governance

    Krister P. Andersson;Clark C. Gibson;Fabrice Lehoucq

  • Political Institutions, Policymaking Processes, and Policy Outcomes in Mexico

    Fabrice Lehoucq;Gabriel Negretto;Francisco Javier Aparicio;Benito Nacif

  • Political Competition and Electoral Fraud: A Latin American Case Study

    Iván Molina;Fabrice Edouard Lehoucq

  • Institutional Change and Political Conflict: Evaluating Alternative Explanations of Electoral Reform in Costa Rica

    Fabrice Edouard Lehoucq

  • An Introduction to Special Issue The Causes and Consequences of Secret Ballot Reform

    Jan Teorell;Daniel Ziblatt;Fabrice Lehoucq

  • Bolivia's Citizen Revolt

    Fabrice Lehoucq

  • The Institutional Foundations of Democratic Cooperation in Costa Rica

    Fabrice Edouard Lehoucq

  • Varying the Un-Variable Social Structure, Electoral Formulae, and Election Quality

    Fabrice Lehoucq;Kiril Kolev

  • Constraint and Ambition in the Politics of Electoral Reform

    Fabrice Edouard Lehoucq

Frequent Co-Authors

Clark C. Gibson
Clark C. Gibson University of California, San Diego
Aníbal Pérez-Liñán
Aníbal Pérez-Liñán University of Notre Dame
Sebastian M. Saiegh
Sebastian M. Saiegh University of California, San Diego
Bernardo Mueller
Bernardo Mueller University of Brasília
Krister Andersson
Krister Andersson University of Notre Dame
Ernesto Stein
Ernesto Stein Inter-American Development Bank
Mariano Tommasi
Mariano Tommasi University of San Andrés
Pablo T. Spiller
Pablo T. Spiller University of California, Berkeley
Lee J. Alston
Lee J. Alston Indiana University
James Mahoney
James Mahoney Northwestern University

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