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Overview

Scott Morgenstern is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States and specializes in social sciences, with a primary focus on political science and international relations. Their research covers multiple subfields including sociology and political science, development, strategy and management, and gender studies.

The main topics of their work concentrate on electoral systems and political participation, politics and society in Latin America, international development and aid, political conflict and governance, political influence and corporate strategies, international relations in Latin America, and religion and society interactions.

Morgenstern has published extensively in several academic venues, with frequent contributions to the following:

  • Latin American Research Review
  • Legislative Studies Quarterly
  • Party Politics
  • Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
  • Perspectives on Politics

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Battling for the Hearts and Minds of Latin Americans: Covariance of Attitudes toward the United States and China" (2021, Latin American Research Review)
  • "Political Recruitment and Candidate Selection in Latin America" (2020, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics)
  • "Legislators' Religiosity and Same-Sex Marriage in Latin America" (2023, Latin American Research Review)
  • "Frustrated marriage? The ideological distance of members of congress from their parties in Latin America" (2024, Party Politics)
  • "Spending to Win: Political Institutions, Economic Geography, and Government Subsidies. By Stephanie J. Rickard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 260p. $99.99 cloth, $29.99 paper." (2020, Perspectives on Politics)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Morgenstern include:

  • Asbel Bohigues
  • Valentina González-Rostani
  • Darren Hawkins
  • Celeste Beesley
  • Daniel Nielson

The breadth of Morgenstern's work reflects a sustained interest in Latin American political dynamics, seen through the lenses of electoral participation, party politics, and ideological alignment. The examination of religion's role in legislative behavior and the analysis of attitudes toward major global actors also form integral components of their research agenda.

Best Publications

  • Latin America's Reactive Assemblies and Proactive Presidents

    Gary W. Cox;Scott Morgenstern

  • Legislative politics in Latin America

    Scott Morgenstern;Benito Nacif

  • Patterns of Legislative Politics: Roll-Call Voting in Latin America and the United States

    Scott Morgenstern

  • PARTIES, COALITIONS, AND THE CHILEAN CONGRESS IN THE 1990s

    John M. Carey;Scott Morgenstern;Benito Nacif

  • Pathways to power : political recruitment and candidate selection in Latin America

    Peter Siavelis;Scott Morgenstern

  • Party Nationalization and Institutions

    Scott Morgenstern;Stephen M. Swindle;Andrea Castagnola

  • Candidate Recruitment and Selection in Latin America: A Framework for Analysis

    Peter M. Siavelis;Scott Morgenstern

  • Better the Devil You Know Than the Saint You Don't? Risk Propensity and Vote Choice in Mexico

    Scott Morgenstern;Elizabeth Zechmeister

  • Organized Factions and Disorganized Parties Electoral Incentives in Uruguay

    Scott Morgenstern

  • ARE POLITICS LOCAL? An Analysis of Voting Patterns in 23 Democracies

    Scott Morgenstern;Stephen M. Swindle

  • Legislative Politics in Latin America: EPILOGUE: LATIN AMERICA'S REACTIVE ASSEMBLIES AND PROACTIVE PRESIDENTS

    Gary W. Cox;Scott Morgenstern

  • The components of elections: district heterogeneity, district-time effects, and volatility

    Scott Morgenstern;Richard F. Potthoff

  • The Increasing Advantage of Incumbency in the U. S. States

    Gary W. Cox;Scott Morgenstern

  • The Incumbency Advantage in Multimember Districts: Evidence from the U. S. States

    Gary W. Cox;Scott Morgenstern

  • Explaining hydrocarbon nationalization in Latin America: Economics and political ideology

    Ruben Berrios;Andrae Marak;Scott Morgenstern

  • Legislaturas reactivas y presidentes proactivos en América Latina

    Gary Cox;Scott Morgenstern

  • Seven imperatives for improving the measurement of party nationalization with Evidence from Chile

    Scott Morgenstern;John Polga-Hecimovich;Peter M. Siavelis

  • Parliamentary Opposition in Non-Parliamentary Regimes: Latin America

    Scott Morgenstern;Juan Javier Negri;Aníbal Pérez-Liñán

  • Electoral Laws, Parties, and Party Systems in Latin America

    Scott Morgenstern;Javier Vázquez-D’Elía

  • Revisiting Shugart and Carey’s Relation of Executive Powers and Democratic Breakdown:

    Scott Morgenstern;Amaury Perez;Maxfield Peterson

  • Legislative Oversight: Interests and Institutions in the United States and Argentina

    Scott Morgenstern;Luigi Manzetti

  • Legislative Politics in Latin America: References

    Scott Morgenstern;Benito Nacif

  • Campaigning in Electoral Authoritarian Regimes: The Case of Mexico

    Scott Morgenstern;Joy Langston

Frequent Co-Authors

Gary W. Cox
Gary W. Cox Stanford University
Daniel L. Nielson
Daniel L. Nielson Brigham Young University
Aníbal Pérez-Liñán
Aníbal Pérez-Liñán University of Notre Dame
Noah A. Smith
Noah A. Smith University of Washington
Elizabeth J. Zechmeister
Elizabeth J. Zechmeister Vanderbilt University
John M. Carey
John M. Carey Dartmouth College

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