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Leslie Anderson

Department of Political Science

Publications

Books, published

  • Democratization by Institutions:  Argentina’s Transition Years in Comparative Perspective, (University of Michigan Press, 2016).  Spanish translation, La democratización a través de las instituciones Los años de la transición argentina en una perspectiva comparativa, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Prometeo Libros, February 2022.  https://prometeoeditorial.com/libro/1281/Democratizacion-a-traves-de-las-instituciones-la
  • At Prometeo Libros this book is published as part of a series:  Democracia, Partidos y Elecciones, Series Editor Alejandro Tullio.  The English translation of the name of the series is Democracy, Parties and Elections.  Prometeo Libros hosted a zoom book launch for this book on July 14, 2022.  That event was recorded and can be found on YouTube at https://youtu.be/VSDL-4IV_gw
  • Social Capital in Developing Democracies:  Nicaragua and Argentina Compared (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
  • Learning Democracy:  Citizen Engagement and Electoral Choice in Nicaragua, 1990-2001, with Lawrence C. Dodd, (University of Chicago Press, 2005).  (semi-finalist for Grawemeyer Award, 2006.)  (Learning Democracy sold over 900 copies in its first year and is into its second printing.  It has now sold over 1700 copies.)
  • The Political Ecology of the Modern Peasant:  Calculation and Community, (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994) (selected for Best Book Award, Transformational Politics Section, American Political Science Association and for Outstanding Book Award, Choice academic magazine.  This book is being republished in a free access ecopy, forthcoming Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022)

Books, in progress

  • Democracy or Authoritarianism?  Nicaragua’s Struggle against Democratic Decline, with Lawrence C. Dodd and Won-ho Park, under revision in response to Board requests, 1/22.
  • A Passage to Democracy:  Pathways out of Subnational Authoritarianism in Argentina and the United States, (This project is still in the research stage)
  • Memory and Denial:  The Politics of Human Rights in Argentina and Spain (this book is in the research stage)

Refereed articles

  1. Robert Dahl, la Constitución Estadounidense y Donald Trump:  Algunas consideraciones sobre la supervivencia de la democracia en los Estados Unidos, (Robert Dahl, the American Constitution and Donald Trump:  Some Thoughts on Democracy’s Survival in the United States), Huellas de los Estados Unidos, (Buenos Aires), October, 2021. http://www.huellasdeeua.com/index.html
  2. Aquiescencia y resistencia: el régimen de Ortega en Nicaragua, with Lawrence C. Dodd and Won-ho Park, América Latina Hoy., Salamanca, Spain, published online through First View 4/16/21 at  https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/1130-2887/article/view/20295 , Issue 87, May, 2021.
  3. Electoral Competition and Democratic Decline in Nicaragua:  Uncovering an Electorally Viable Platform for the Right, with Lawrence C. Dodd and Won-ho Park, Democratization, November, 2017, Vol 24, # 6, pp 970-986.
  4. International Contributions to Nicaraguan Democracy:  The Role of Foreign Municipal Donations for Social Development, with Won-ho Park, Foreign Policy Analysis, Vol 14, Issue 2, April, 2017, pp 276-297.
  5. “Democracy and Oppositional Consciousness in Argentina,” Polity, Vol 46, # 2, April, 2014, pp. 164-181 (lead article).
  6. “Poverty and Political Empowerment:  Local Citizen Political Participation as a Path toward Social Justice in Nicaragua,” The Forum on Public Policy, December, 2010, Vol 1, # 2010, pp 1-19 (lead article).
  7. “Single-Party Predominance in an Unconsolidated Democracy:  The Example of Argentina,” Perspectives on Politics, December, 2009, Vol 7, # 4, pp 767-784
  8. “Nicaragua:  Progress Amid Regress?” with Lawrence C. Dodd, Journal of Democracy, July, 2009, Vol 20, # 3, pp 153-167, republished in Spanish with the title “Nicaragua:  Progreso en Medio de Retroceso?,  Journal of Democracy en Espanol, Spanish version, Julio, 2010, Vol 2, pp 168-184.

    This essay in its original, English version elicited a critique from Samuel Green.  At the invitation of the JOD, we responded to Green in Leslie E. Anderson and Lawrence C. Dodd, “Taking the Study of Nicaraguan Politics Seriously:  A Response to Green,” Journal of Democracy Web Notes, May, 2010.

  9. “The Authoritarian Executive?  Horizontal and Vertical Accountability in A New Democracy:  A Nicaraguan Perspective,” Latin American Politics and Society, Vol 48, # 2, Summer, 2006, pp 141-169.
  10. “Fascism or Revolution:  Left and Right Politics of the Rural Poor,” International Political Science Review, Vol 27, # 2, April, 2006, pp 191-214. (A longer version of this essay was published in Spain, in Politica y Sociedad, Madrid, 2001)
  11. “Democratie Envers et Contre Tout,” with Lawrence C. Dodd, Revue Le Banquet, (Paris) Vol 21, October, 2004, pp 293-323.
  12. “Post-socialist Democratization:  A Comparative Political Economy Model of the Vote for Hungary and Nicaragua,” with Michael Lewis-Beck and Mary Stegmaier, Electoral Studies, Vol 22, # 3, September, 2003, pp 469-484.
  13. “Of Wild and Cultivated Politics:  Conflict and Democracy in Argentina,” International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, Vol 16, # 1, Fall, 2002, pp 99-132.
  14. “Nicaragua Votes:  The Elections of 2001,” with Lawrence C. Dodd, Journal of Democracy, Vol 13, # 3, July, 2002, pp 80-94.
  15. “Comportamiento Electoral y Democracia en Nicaragua:  1990-2001, with Lawrence C. Dodd, America Latina Hoy, (Salamanca) Vol 30, April, 2002, pp 205-230.
  16. “Fascistas o Revolucionarios?  Politica Izquierdista y Derechista de la Poblacion Pobre Rural, Politica y Sociedad, # 38, (Madrid), September-December, 2001, pp 129-151.  (This paper was originally presented at the International Conference of Sociology, Salamanca, Spain, September, 2001.  A shorter version of this essay was published in the United States in 2006.)
  17. “Between Quiescence and Rebellion among the Peasantry,” Journal of Theoretical Politics, Vol 9, # 4, October, 1997, pp 503-532.
  18. “Neutrality and Bias in the 1990 Nicaraguan Pre-Electoral Polls,” American Journal of Political Science, Vol 38, # 2, May, 1994, pp 495-522.
  19. “Radicalism and Reformism in a Democratic Context,” with Mitchell Seligson, American Journal of Political Science, Vol 38, # 4, November, 1994, pp 944-972.
  20. “Agrarian Politics and Revolution: Micro and State Perspectives on Structural Determinism,” Journal of Theoretical Politics, Vol 5, # 4, October, 1993, pp 495-522.
  21. “Surprises and Secrets:  Lessons from the 1990 Nicaraguan Election,” Studies in Comparative International Development, Vol 27, # 3, Fall, 1992, pp 93-119.
  22. “Mixed Blessings: Disruption and Organization among Costa Rican Peasant Unions,” Latin American Research Review, Vol 26, # 1, March, 1991, pp 111-143.

    Published in Spanish, Revista de Historia, San Jose, Costa Rica, September, 1992

  23. “Post-Materialism from a Peasant Perspective:  Political Motivation in Costa Rica and Nicaragua,” Comparative Political Studies, Vol 23, # 1, March, 1990, pp 80-113.
  24. “Alternative Action:  Peasants as Positive Participants,” Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol 22, # 1, February, 1990, pp 89-113.

Refereed book chapters and invited articles

  1. A Critical Dialogue with Cynthia McClintock, Perspectives on Politics, December, 2018.
  2. “Graduate Education in a Pluralist Context:  The Metaphor of a Tool Box,” in Kristen Renwick Monroe, editor, Perestroika!  The Jumbled, Raucous, Liberating Revolution in Political Science, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2005.
  3. “Idealism, Impatience and Pessimism:  Studies of Democratization in Latin America,” Latin American Research Review, 2005
  4. “The Legislature as a Reflection of Democracy,” Extension of Remarks, Legislative Studies Section Newsletter, American Political Science Association, July, 1995.

    published in Spanish, Pais, Managua, Nicaragua, May, 1996.

  5. “Chameleons and Camouflage:  Reading the 1990 Nicaraguan Pre-electoral Polls,” in John Booth and Mitchell Seligson, eds. Democracy and Elections in Central America, 2nd ed, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1995

    published in Spanish, Envio, Managua, Nicaragua, June, 1996

Book reviews

  1. Shifting Legal Visions:  Judicial Change and Human Rights Trials in Latin America, by Ezequiel Gonzalez-Ocantos, Latin American Politics and Society, 2017
  2. Empire of Difference, The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective, by Karen Barkey, Cambridge University Press, 2008 and Lineages of Despotism and Development:  British Colonialism and State Power, by Matthew Lange, University of Chicago Press, 2009; and Colonialism and Postcolonial Development:  Spanish America in Comparative Perspective, by James Mahoney, Cambridge University Press, 2010, Perspectives on Politics, 2011.
  3. The Endurance of National Constitutions, by Zachary Elkins, Tom Ginsburg and James Melton, Cambridge University Press, Comparative Political Studies,  March, 2011
  4. Political Movements and Violence in Central America, by Charles Brockett, Cambridge University Press, International Public Opinion Quarterly, 2007
  5. Bounded Missions:  Military Regimes and Democratization in the Southern Cone and Brazil, by Craig L. Arceneaux, University Park:  Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001, The Americas, 2003
  6. Democracy and the Public Space in Latin America, by Leonardo Avritzer, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 2002, Political Studies January, 2003
  7. Empowering Women:  Land and Property Rights in Latin America, by Carmen Diana Deere and Magdalena Leon. Pittsburgh: The University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001, and Still Fighting:  The Nicaraguan Women’s Movement, 1977-2000, by Katherine Isbester.  Pittsburgh: The University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001. American Political Science Review,   December, 2002.
  8. Undermining the Sandinista Revolution, edited by Gary Prevost and Harry E. Vanden, New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1997 The Americas, April, 2002
  9. The New Politics of Inequality In Latin America:  Rethinking Participation and Representation, by Douglas A. Chalmers, Carlos M. Vilas, Katherine Hite, Scott B. Martin, Kerianne Piester, and Monique Segarra, Journal of Politics, Vol 61, # 2, 1999
  10. Managing the Commanding Heights:  Nicaragua’s State Enterprises, by Forrest Colburn, The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol 72, # 1, February, 1992
  11. Power and Protest:  Latin American Social Movements, ed by Susan Eckstein, The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol 72, # 1, February, 1992
  12. Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance, edited by Forrest Colburn, New York, M.E. Sharpe, 1990, in Studies in Comparative International Development, Vol 26, # 3, Fall, 1991.
  13. Elections and Democracy In Central America, by John Booth and Mitchell Seligson, Political Science Quarterly, Vol 105, # 2, Summer, 1990

The Public Intellectual:  Newspaper articles and interviews