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Overview

Mark P. Jones is affiliated with Rice University in the United States. Their research spans a range of topics intersecting economics, sustainability, social sciences, and health professions.

The body of work includes publications in notable venues such as Resources Policy and Policing & Society. Specifically, their recent papers include:

  • Shale Renders the 'Obsolescing Bargain' Obsolete: Political risk and foreign investment in Argentina's Vaca Muerta, 2021, Resources Policy
  • 'Not everybody can do this job': a qualitative inquiry into emotional labour from RCMP detachment services assistants, 2023, Policing & Society

Their co-authorship network features collaboration with researchers including Gabe Collins, Jim Krane, Ken Medlock, Francisco Monaldi, and Rosemary Ricciardelli.

Mark P. Jones's research intersects multiple subfields:

  • General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Building and Construction
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • General Health Professions

The topics covered in their work reveal a multidisciplinary approach, focusing on areas such as:

  • Natural Resources and Economic Development
  • Global Energy and Sustainability Research
  • Mining and Resource Management
  • Emotional Labor in Professions
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Child Abuse and Trauma

Best Publications

  • Presidentialism and democracy in Latin America

    Scott Mainwaring;Matthew Soberg Shugart

  • THE NATIONALIZATION OF PARTIES AND PARTY SYSTEMS: AN EMPIRICAL MEASURE AND AN APPLICATION TO THE AMERICAS

    Mark P. Jones;Scott Mainwaring

  • Engendering the Right to Participate in Decision-making: Electoral Quotas and Women’s Leadership in Latin America

    Mala N. Htun;Mark P. Jones

  • Institutional Inconsistency and Political Instability: Polity Duration, 1800–2000

    Scott Gates;Håvard Hegre;Mark P. Jones;Håvard Strand

  • Amateur Legislators -- Professional Politicians: The Consequences of Party-Centered Electoral Rules in a Federal System

    Mark P. Jones;Sebastian Saiegh;Pablo T. Spiller;Mariano Tommasi

  • BACK ROOMS OR BALLOT BOXES? Candidate Nomination in Argentina

    Miguel De Luca;Mark P. Jones;María Inés Tula

  • Vote-Seeking Incentives and Legislative Representation in Six Presidential Democracies

    Brian F. Crisp;Maria C. Escobar-Lemmon;Bradford S. Jones;Mark P. Jones

  • Electoral laws and the survival of presidential democracies.

    Mark Penfield Jones

  • Politics, institutions, and fiscal performance in a federal system: an analysis of the Argentine provinces

    Mark P Jones;Pablo Sanguinetti;Mariano Tommasi

  • Gender Quotas, Electoral Laws, and the Election of Women: Evidence From the Latin American Vanguard

    Mark P. Jones

  • Gender Quotas, Electoral Laws, and the Election of Women: Lessons from the Argentine Provinces

    Mark P. Jones

  • Quota Legislation and the Election of Women: Learning from the Costa Rican Experience

    Mark P. Jones

  • Increasing Women's Representation Via Gender Quotas:: The Argentine Ley de Cupos

    Mark P. Jones

  • Legislator Gender and Legislator Policy Priorities in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies and the United States House of Representatives

    Mark P. Jones

  • Electoral Laws and the Effective Number of Candidates in Presidential Elections

    Mark P. Jones

  • Comparing Cosponsorship and Roll-Call Ideal Points

    Eduardo Alemán;Ernesto Calvo;Mark P. Jones;Noah Kaplan

  • Party Government in Presidential Democracies: Extending Cartel Theory Beyond the U.S. Congress

    Mark P. Jones;Wonjae Hwang

  • Legislative Politics in Latin America: EXPLAINING THE HIGH LEVEL OF PARTY DISCIPLINE IN THE ARGENTINE CONGRESS

    Mark P. Jones

  • Presidential Election Laws and Multipartism in Latin America

    Mark P. Jones

  • Federalism and the Number of Parties in Argentine Congressional Elections

    Mark P. Jones

  • How Democracy Works: Political Institutions, Actors and Arenas in Latin American Policymaking

    Carlos Scartascini;Ernesto H. Stein;Mariano Tommasi;Mark P. Jones

  • A Guide to the Electoral Systems of the Americas

    Mark P Jones

Frequent Co-Authors

Mariano Tommasi
Mariano Tommasi University of San Andrés
Sebastian M. Saiegh
Sebastian M. Saiegh University of California, San Diego
Ernesto Stein
Ernesto Stein Inter-American Development Bank
Maria Victoria Murillo
Maria Victoria Murillo Columbia University
Laurence Whitehead
Laurence Whitehead University of Oxford
Pablo T. Spiller
Pablo T. Spiller University of California, Berkeley
Adriana D. Kugler
Adriana D. Kugler Georgetown University
Jere R. Behrman
Jere R. Behrman University of Pennsylvania
John A. Maluccio
John A. Maluccio Middlebury College

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