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Overview

Timothy J. Power is primarily affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and works within the social sciences, focusing mainly on political science and international relations. Their scholarly output encompasses 25 publications, with 21 specifically addressing political science and international relations. Timothy's research spans several interconnected subfields including sociology and political science, archeology, strategy and management, and economics and econometrics.

Their academic work heavily engages with the topics of electoral systems and political participation, politics and society in Latin America, political conflict and governance, political systems and governance, populism and right-wing movements, political influence and corporate strategies, as well as local government finance and decentralization.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Timothy include:

  • Fragmentation Without Cleavages? Endogenous Fractionalization in the Brazilian Party System, 2020, Comparative Politics
  • Does Power Always Flow to the Executive? Interbranch Oscillations in Legislative Authority, 1976-2014, 2021, Government and Opposition
  • The Ideology of Brazilian Parties and Presidents: A Research Note on Coalitional Presidentialism Under Stress, 2024, Latin American Politics and Society
  • Introducing authoritarian diasporas: causes and consequences of authoritarian elite dispersion, 2021, Democratization
  • Lula's Second Act, 2023, Journal of Democracy

Timothy frequently publishes in the journal Latin American Politics and Society, contributing to nine publications there. Other notable venues where their work has appeared include Harvard Dataverse, Party Politics, Comparative Politics, and Government and Opposition.

The researcher has collaborated extensively with peers such as César Zucco, Wendy Hunter, Alfred P. Montero, contacts from Carleton College, and Senior Juan. These partnerships have resulted in multiple coauthored publications, with César Zucco being the most frequent collaborator.

Best Publications

  • Rewarding Lula: Executive Power, Social Policy, and the Brazilian Elections of 2006

    Wendy A Hunter;Timothy J. Power

  • Explaining Voter Turnout in Latin America, 1980 to 2000:

    Carolina A. Fornos;Timothy J. Power;James C. Garand

  • Presidentialization, Pluralization, and the Rollback of Itamaraty: Explaining Change in Brazilian Foreign Policy Making in the Cardoso-Lula Era

    Jeffrey W. Cason;Timothy J. Power

  • Estimating Ideology of Brazilian Legislative Parties, 1990–2005: A Research Communication

    Timothy J. Power;Cesar Zucco

  • Bolsonaro and Brazil's Illiberal Backlash

    Wendy Hunter;Timothy J. Power

  • The Structural Determinants of Democratic Consolidation: Evidence from the Third World

    Mark J. Gasiorowski;Timothy J. Power

  • Institutional Design and Democratic Consolidation in the Third World

    Timothy J. Power;Mark J. Gasiorowski

  • The Executive Toolbox: Building Legislative Support in a Multiparty Presidential Regime:

    Eric D. Raile;Carlos Pereira;Timothy J. Power

  • Compulsory Voting, Invalid Ballots, and Abstention in Brazil:

    Timothy J. Power;J. Timmons Roberts

  • Under What Conditions Do Presidents Resort to Decree Power? Theory and Evidence from the Brazilian Case

    Carlos Pereira;Timothy J. Power;Lucio Rennó

  • Rethinking the ‘presidentialism debate’: conceptualizing coalitional politics in cross-regional perspective

    Paul Chaisty;Nic Cheeseman;Timothy J. Power

  • Determinants of invalid voting in Latin America

    Timothy J. Power;James C. Garand

  • Optimism, Pessimism, and Coalitional Presidentialism: Debating the Institutional Design of Brazilian Democracy

    Timothy J. Power

  • Does Democratization Depress Participation? Voter Turnout in the Latin American and Eastern European Transitional Democracies:

    Tatiana Kostadinova;Timothy J. Power

  • Building Democratic Institutions: Party Systems in Latin America

    Timothy J. Power

  • Gender, Parties, and Support for Equal Rights in the Brazilian Congress

    Mala Htun;Timothy J. Power

  • Elite Preferences in a Consolidating Democracy: The Brazilian Legislative Surveys, 1990–2009

    Timothy J. Power;Cesar Zucco

  • Desconfiança política na América Latina

    Timothy J. Power;Giselle D. Jamison

  • The Political Right in Postauthoritarian Brazil: Elites, Institutions, and Democratization

    Timothy J. Power

  • Agenda power, executive decree authority, and the mixed results of reform in the Brazilian Congress

    Carlos Pereira;Timothy J. Power;Lucio R. Rennó

  • Brazilian Democracy as a Late Bloomer: Reevaluating the Regime in the Cardoso-Lula Era

    Timothy J. Power

  • Compulsory for Whom? Mandatory Voting and Electoral Participation in Brazil, 1986-2006

    Timothy J. Power

  • Democratic Brazil: Actors, Institutions, and Processes

    Kenneth Maxwell;Peter R. Kingstone;Timothy J. Power

  • Corruption and democracy in Brazil : the struggle for accountability

    Timothy J. Power;Matthew MacLeod Taylor

  • Measuring Legislative Power: An Expert Reweighting of the Fish‐Kroenig Parliamentary Powers Index

    Svitlana Chernykh;David Doyle;Timothy J. Power

  • Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective

    Paul Chaisty;Nic Cheeseman;Timothy J. Power

  • The PT at 35: Revisiting Scholarly Interpretations of the Brazilian Workers' Party

    Oswaldo E. Do Amaral;Timothy J. Power

  • The executive toolbox: building legislative support in a multiparty presidential regime

    Carlos Pereira;Timothy J. Power;Eric D. Raile

Frequent Co-Authors

Wendy Hunter
Wendy Hunter The University of Texas at Austin
James C. Garand
James C. Garand Louisiana State University
Anthony Watts
Anthony Watts University of Oxford
J. Timmons Roberts
J. Timmons Roberts Brown University
David L. Olson
David L. Olson University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Scott Mainwaring
Scott Mainwaring University of Notre Dame

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