I am a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. My fields of study are comparative politics, Latin American politics, and methodology. My research focuses on three areas, described in more detail below: Campaigns, Parties, and Political Communication in Latin America Methodology and Concept Analysis The Internet in Developing Countries and Authoritarian Regimes Job market materials: Curriculum Vitae Job market paper Dissertation abstract and chapter outline Unofficial transcript with instructors and full course names Summary of teaching evaluations

Research, Papers, and Publications

• "Varieties of Electioneering: Empathetic Personalism in Chile's Presidential Election Campaigns." Revised (Nov. 15, 2007) version of a paper originally presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Aug. 30-Sept. 2, 2007, and the Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Montreal, Sept. 5-8, 2007.


• “Television and Neopopulism in Latin America: Media Effects in Brazil and Peru.” Latin American Research Review vol. 40, no. 2 (June 2005).


• “Chile: Promoting the Personal Connection--The Internet and Presidential Election Campaigns.” In Richard Davis, Diana Owen, David Taras, and Stephen Ward, eds., Making a Difference: A Comparative View of the Role of the Internet in Election Politics. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, forthcoming 2008.

• “Conceptualizing Continuity and Change: The Composite-Standard Model of Path Dependence.” Journal of Theoretical Politics vol 19, no. 1 (January 2007).
  


• “Neoliberalism: From New Liberal Philosophy to Anti-Liberal Slogan” (with Jordan Gans-Morse). Revised (November 29, 2007) version of a paper originally presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 31-September 3, 2006.


• Review of Politics in Time, by Paul Pierson. Journal of Politics 70, 1 (January 2008). Click here for the entire qualitative methods book review symposium from this issue.

• The Digital Revolution and International Development (edited with Thad Dunning). A special issue of Studies in Comparative International Development, vol. 40, no. 2 (Summer 2005).

  Taylor Boas and Thad Dunning, "Classic Questions, New Context: Development in an Era of Bits and Bytes" (pp. 3-8). Carolyn Cartier, Manuel Castells, and Jack Linchuan Qiu, "The Information Have-Less: Inequality, Mobility, and Translocal Networks in Chinese Cities" (pp. 9-34). AnnaLee Saxenian, "From Brain Drain to Brain Circulation: Transnational Communities and Regional Upgrading in India and China" (pp. 35-61). Steven Weber and Jennifer Bussell, "Will Information Technology Reshape the North-South Asymmetry of Power in the Global Political Economy?" (pp. 62-84). Peter Evans, "The New Commons vs. The Second Enclosure Movement: Comments on an Emerging Agenda for Development Research" (pp. 85-94). Taylor Boas, Thad Dunning, and Jennifer Bussell, "Will the Digital Revolution Revolutionize Development? Drawing Together the Debate" (pp. 95-110).

• "Weaving the Authoritarian Web: The Control of Internet Use in Non-Democratic Regimes." In John Zysman and Abraham Newman, eds., How Revolutionary Was the Digital Revolution? National Responses, Market Transitions, and Global Technology. Stanford, CA: Stanford Business Books, 2006.

• "Weaving the Authoritarian Web." Current History 103, no. 677 (December 2004). A shorter and less theoretical version of the above.
  

• “Technology, Freedom, and Democracy: An Evolving Debate.” APSA-CP: Newsletter of the Organized Section in Comparative Politics of the American Political Science Association 15, no. 1: 18-23 (Winter 2004).
  
  
• “Falun Gong and the Internet: Evangelism, Community, and Struggle for Survival” (with Mark R. Bell). Nova Religio vol. 6, no. 2 (April 2003): 277-293.
  
  
• Open Networks, Closed Regimes: The Impact of the Internet on Authoritarian Rule (with Shanthi Kalathil). Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2003.
  

  Chapters 1 and 2 (Introduction and China), featured in First Monday, January 2003. Reviews: Foreign Affairs, The Washington Monthly, The Economist, Survival, Governance, Political Science Quarterly, Democratization, Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies, SAIS Review, China Quarterly, Journal of Communication, Political Communication, and Media, Culture, and Society. Order from Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble.

• “The Dictator’s Dilemma? The Internet and U.S. Policy toward Cuba.” The Washington Quarterly vol. 23, no. 3 (Summer 2000): 57-67.