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Curriculum Vitae Academic appointments University of California, Santa Cruz; Professor, Department of Politics, July 2009 to the present; Chair, Department of Politics, July 2010 – July 2013; Director, Center for Global, International and Regional Studies (CGIRS), July 2009 – June 2010; Associate Professor, Department of Politics, July 2006 – June 2009 University of California, Berkeley; Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, July – December 2008 Naval Postgraduate School; Associate Professor, Department of National Security Affairs, June 2005 – September 2006 Princeton University; Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, July 1998 – June 2005 Education Yale University; New Haven, Connecticut Ph.D., Political Science, 1998 M.A., Political Science, 1994 Stanford University; Stanford, California B.A., International Relations, with honors, 1990 Books Politics beyond the Capital: The Design of Subnational Institutions in South America (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004) Politicians and Economic Reform in New Democracies: Argentina and the Philippines in the 1990s (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2002) Edited volumes Making Decentralization Work: Democracy, Development and Security, co-edited with Edwin Connerley and Paul Smoke (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Press, 2010)

Articles in refereed journals “Recentralization and the Left Turn in Latin America: Diverging Outcomes in Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela,” Comparative Political Studies, forthcoming “Latin America’s Resurgent Center: National Government Strategies after Decentralization,” Journal of Development Studies 49 (11) 2013: 1453-1466 “The Centralism of ‘21st Century Socialism’: On the Pursuit of Recentralisation in Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia,” Journal of Latin American Studies 45 (3) 2013: 421-450 “The State of the State in Latin America: Challenges, Challengers, Responses and Deficits,” Revista de Ciencia Política 32 (3) 2012: 643-657 “Conservative Autonomy Movements: Territorial Dimensions of Ideological Conflict in Bolivia and Ecuador,” Comparative Politics 43 (3) 2011: 291-310 “Subnational Economic Nationalism?: The Contradictory Effects of Decentralization in Peru,” Third World Quarterly 31 (7) 2010: 1205-1222 “Federalism in Europe and Latin America: Conceptualization, Causes and Consequences,” World Politics 60 (4) 2008: 665-698 [Review Article] “Paradoxes of Police Reform: Federalism, Parties and Civil Society in Argentina’s Public Security Crisis,” Latin American Research Review 43 (3) 2008: 5-32 Translated and reprinted as “Paradojas de la reforma policial: federalismo, partidos y sociedad civil en la crisis de la seguridad pública en Argentina,” in Lucía Dammert, ed., Crímen y Inseguridad: Políticas, Temas y Problemas en las Américas (Santiago de Chile: Catalonia Editorial, 2010). “Backlash in Bolivia: Regional Autonomy as a Reaction against Indigenous Mobilization,” Politics and Society 35 (1) 2007: 71-102 “The Downside of Decentralization: Armed Clientelism in Colombia,” Security Studies 15 (4) 2006: 1-30 “Decentralization’s Non-Democratic Roots: Authoritarianism and Subnational Reform in South America,” Latin American Politics and Society 48 (1) 2006: 1-26 Reprinted in William C. Smith, ed., Latin American Democratic Transformations: Institutions, Actors and Processes (Blackwell Publishers, Inc., 2009) “Risky Business: Decentralization from Above in Chile and Uruguay,” Comparative Politics 37 (1) 2004): 1-22 “Designing Subnational Institutions: Regional and Municipal Reforms in Post-authoritarian Chile,” Comparative Political Studies 37 (2) 2004: 218-244 “The Politics of Re-centralization in Argentina and Brazil,” with Tyler Dickovick, Latin American Research Review 39 (1) 2004: 90-122

Reprinted as “Decentralization and Re-centralization in Latin American Federations: Argentina and Brazil in the 1990s,” with Tyler Dickovick, in George Peterson, Paul Smoke, and Eduardo Gomez, eds., Decentralization in Asia and Latin America: A Comparative Interdisciplinary Perspective (Cheltenham, U.K.:Edward Elgar, 2006) “Restoration or Transformation? Trapos vs. NGOs in the Democratization of the Philippines,” Journal of Asian Studies 62 (2) 2003: 469-495 “Can Politicians Control Bureaucrats?: Applying Theories of Political Control to Argentina’s Democracy,” Latin American Politics and Society 45 (4) 2003: 33-62 “The Logic of Congressional Delegation: Explaining Argentine Economic Reform,” Latin American Research Review 36 (2) 2001: 97-117 Translated and reprinted as “La Lógica de la Delegación de Poderes Legislativos: La Reforma de la Promoción Regional en la Argentina,” Desarrollo Económico 42 (168) 2003: 499-518 “Decentralization, Democratization, and Liberalization: The History of Revenue Sharing in Argentina,” Journal of Latin American Studies 33 (1) 2001: 1-28 “Political Obstacles to Decentralization: Evidence from Argentina and the Philippines,” Development and Change 32 (1) 2001: 101-127 “Parliamentarism versus Presidentialism in the Policy Arena,” Comparative Politics 32 (3) 2000: 355-376 [Review Article] Chapters in edited volumes “New Strategies of the Latin American Right: Beyond Parties and Elections,” in Juan Pablo Luna and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, eds., The Resilience of the Latin American Right (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014) “Teachers, Mayors and the Transformation of Clientelism in Colombia,” with Christopher Chambers-Ju, in Diego Abente Brun and Larry Diamond, eds., Clientelism, Social Policy and the Quality of Democracy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014) “Decentralization and Federalism,” in Peter Kingstone and Deborah Yashar, eds., Handbook of Latin American Politics (New York: Routledge, 2012) “The Northern Andes: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru,” in Daniel Moran, ed., Climate Change and National Security: A Country-level Analysis (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2011) “Democracy, Development and Security as Objectives of Decentralization,” with Edwin Connerley, in Kent Eaton, Edwin Connerley and Paul Smoke, eds., Making Decentralization Work: Democracy, Development and Security (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Press, 2010) “Measuring Decentralization” with Larry Schroeder, in Kent Eaton, Edwin Connerley and Paul Smoke, eds., Making Decentralization Work: Democracy, Development and Security (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Press, 2010)

“Menem and the Governors: Intergovernmental Relations in the 1990s,” in Steven Levitsky and M. Victoria Murillo, eds., Argentine Democracy: The Politics of Institutional Weakness (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2005) “The Link between Political and Fiscal Decentralization in South America,” in Alfred Montero and David Samuels, eds., Decentralization and Democracy in Latin America (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004) “Dilemmas of Decentralization in Latin America: Risks and Opportunities,” in Ana Margheritis, ed., Latin American Democracies in the New Global Economy (Miami: North-South Center Press, 2003) “Fiscal Policy Making in the Argentine Congress,” in Scott Morgenstern and Benito Nacif, eds., Legislative Politics in Latin America (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002) Technical reports The Political Economy of Decentralization Reforms: Implications for Aid Effectiveness, with Kai Kaiser and Paul Smoke (Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, 2010) The Democratic Decentralization Programming Handbook (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Agency for International Development, 2009), lead author, with Tyler Dickovick, Thad Dunning and Paul Smoke, under contract with Associates in Rural Development “Decentralization and Governance: Lessons from Latin America,” paper prepared for the Development Research Group of the World Bank, Washington, D.C., March 2008 “Decentralization Indicators,” paper prepared for the Office of Democracy and Governance, U.S. Agency for International Development, under contract with Associates in Rural Development, September 2006