Gretchen Helmke

Best Publications

• INFORMAL INSTITUTIONS AND COMPARATIVE POLITICS: A RESEARCH AGENDA

  Gretchen Helmke;Steven Levitsky

  4169
  Citations

• The Logic of Strategic Defection: Court-Executive Relations in Argentina Under Dictatorship and Democracy

  Gretchen Helmke

  537
  Citations

• Informal Institutions and Democracy

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  366
  Citations

• Regimes and the Rule of Law: Judicial Independence in Comparative Perspective

  Gretchen Helmke;Frances Rosenbluth

  272
  Citations

• Courts under Constraints

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  265
  Citations

• Informal Institutions and Comparative Politics: A Research Agenda

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  255
  Citations

• Courts in Latin America

  Gretchen Helmke;Julio Rios-Figueroa

  225
  Citations

• Searching for Bright Lines in the Trump Presidency

  John M. Carey;Gretchen Helmke;Brendan Nyhan;Mitchell Sanders

  89
  Citations

• The Origins of Institutional Crises in Latin America

  Gretchen Helmke

  84
  Citations

• The comparative study of split-ticket voting

  Barry C. Burden;Gretchen Helmke

  75
  Citations

• Who will defend democracy? Evaluating tradeoffs in candidate support among partisan donors and voters

  John Carey;Katherine Clayton;Gretchen Helmke;Brendan Nyhan

  74
  Citations

• Institutions on the Edge: The Origins and Consequences of Inter-Branch Crises in Latin America

  Gretchen Helmke

  74
  Citations

• Inequality under Democracy: Explaining the Left Decade in Latin America

  Alexandre Debs;Gretchen Helmke

  69
  Citations

• Checks and Balances by Other Means: Strategic Defection and Argentina's Supreme Court in the 1990s

  Gretchen Helmke

  45
  Citations

• Courts in Latin America: The Puzzling Judicial Politics of Latin America

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  31
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• Who Will Defend Democracy? Evaluating Tradeoffs in Candidate Support Among Partisan Donors and Voters

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  30
  Citations

• Democracy by Deterrence: Norms, Constitutions, and Electoral Tilting

  Gretchen Helmke;Mary Kroeger;Jack Paine

  25
  Citations

• Modeling Motivations: A Method for Inferring Judicial Goals from Behavior

  Gretchen Helmke;Mitchell S. Sanders

  17
  Citations

• Endogenous Institutions: The Origins of Compulsory Voting Laws

  Bonnie M Meguid;Gretchen Helmke

  15
  Citations

• Institutions on the Edge

  Gretchen Helmke

  14
  Citations