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C urriculum V itae 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 Grants and fellowships Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2015-2016) UC MEXUS Grant from the University of California (2008-2009) University of California Pacific Rim Grant (2007-2008) Research Initiation Program Grant at the Naval Postgraduate School (2005-2006) Princeton University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences (2002-2004) 1

Books Territory and Ideology in Latin America: Policy Conflicts between National and Subnational Governments (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017) 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 “Disciplining Regions: Subnational Contention in Neoliberal Peru,” Territory, Politics, Governance 3(2) 2015: 124-146. “Recentralization and the Left Turn in Latin America: Diverging Outcomes in Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela,” Comparative Political Studies 47(8) 2014: 1130-57 “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 “Latin America’s Resurgent Center: National Government Strategies after Decentralization,” with Tyler Dickovick, Journal of Development Studies 49(11) 2013: 1453-1466 “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). 2

“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]

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Chapters in edited volumes “Subnational Authoritarianism in Colombia: Divergent Paths in Cesar and Magdalena,” with Juan Diego Prieto, in Tina Hilgers and Laura Macdonald, eds., Dangerous Lives: Structures and Networks of Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean (New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) “Challenges of Party-Building in the Bolivian East,” in Steven Levitsky, James Loxton and Brandon Van Dyck, eds., Challenges of Party-Building in Latin America (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016) “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)

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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 Book reviews Perspectives on Politics, joint review of Jean-Paul Faguet and Caroline Pöschl, eds., Is Decentralization Good for Democracy? Perspectives from Academics and Policy Makers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015) and Ken Kollman, Perils of Centralization: Lessons from Church, State, and Corporation (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013), Vol. 14, No. 3 (September 2016), pp. 47-49 Perspectives on Politics, review of Guillermo O’Donnell, Jorge Vargas and Osvaldo Iazzetta, eds., The Quality of Democracy: Theory and Applications (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004), Vol. 3, No. 3 (September 2005), pp. 677-679 Select invited talks “Política Comparativa al Nivel Subnacional” (Subnational Comparative Politics), keynote talk at the International Workshop on “Challenges to the State: New Political and Economic Actors in Latin America,” Institute of Political Science at the Catholic University, Santiago, Chile, March 14, 2016 “The Rise of the Right in Latin America?,” presentation at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., December 9, 2015 “Territorial Dimensions of Ideological Conflict in Contemporary Latin America,” presentation at the Watson Institute, Brown University, November 3, 2015 “Left Turn, Right Reactions in Latin America,” presentation in the Center for Global and Area Studies, University of Delaware, October 26, 2015 “Subnational Policy Regimes and Conflict over Economic Development,” presentation in the research series on Democracy and Development, Department of Politics, Princeton University, October 21, 2015 “Policy Regimes in Conflict: Territory and Ideology in Latin America,” seminar in the Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, October 15, 2015

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“The Geography of Inclusion in Chile,” presentation at the Third Annual Chile-Conference, UC Berkeley, November 1, 2014 “Territorios y Modelos de Desarrollo,” presentation at the Universidad Nacional Mayor San Marcos (UNMSM), Lima, Peru, May 12, 2014 “Recentralización y Giro a la Izquierda: Analisis Comparada de Casos en América Latina,” presentation to the Interdisciplinary Group for Qualitative Methods in the Study of Politics (GIECEP), at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, April 30, 2014 “Territorios y Modelos de Desarrollo,” presentation in the Department of Social Sciences at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, April 28, 2014 “Policy Regime Juxtaposition in Latin America,” presentation in the School of Government and Public Policy, University of Arizona, Tucson, January 31, 2014 “Conflictos Ideológicos y Regionales en los Andes: La Sopreposición Territorial de Modelos de Desarrollo,” presentation in the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Quito, Ecuador, January 17, 2014 “From Movement to Party?: Right Reactions to the Left Turn in Bolivia,” presentation in the Comparative Politics Speakers Colloquium, Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley, November 15, 2013 “Latin America’s Left Turn: How is the Right Responding,” presentation at the Research Frontiers Day, Division of Social Sciences, UC Santa Cruz, October 25, 2013 “Bolivian Political Dynamics: Conflict and Conciliation under the Evo Morales Government,” research presentation (via skype), Purdue University, October 9, 2012 “Modelos de Autonomía en Perspectiva Comparada,” talk delivered at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, La Paz, Bolivia, August 27, 2012 “Contemporary Perspectives on Latin American Politics,” presentation at the Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford University, May 30, 2012 “Conceptualizing the Latin American State’s Challengers and its Deficits,” paper presented at the Conference on Stateness in Latin America in the 21st Century at the Catholic University in Santiago, Chile, March 29, 2012 “Recentralization and the Left Turn: Diverging Outcomes in Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela,” paper presented in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago, February 29, 2012 “Latin America’s Left Turn and the Subnational Opposition: Recentralization in Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela,” paper presented in the Political Science Department’s Seminar Series at the University of Toronto, November 19, 2010 “Territorial Politics: Decentralization and Federalism in Latin America and Beyond,” presentation in the Department of Political Science at the University of Texas A&M, November 12, 2010 6

“The Political Economy of Decentralization Reforms: A Development Partner Perspective,” presentation of the final draft of a commissioned paper on decentralization at a workshop at the World Bank in Washington, D.C, April 12, 2010 “The Political Economy of Decentralization Reforms: A Development Partner Perspective,” presentation of the first draft of a commissioned paper on decentralization at a workshop at the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service, New York University, September 30, 2009 "The Politics of Decentralization in the Philippines," presentation delivered (via video conference) at the World Bank's Annual Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Learning Week in Washington, D.C, May 1, 2009 “Subnational Economic Nationalism? Peru in the Wake of Liberalization and Decentralization,” paper presented in the Comparative Politics Colloquium in the Department of Political Science at UC Berkeley, April 24, 2009 “Military Governments and Subnational Reform in Latin America,” presentation in the Speakers’ Series on Decentralization in South Asia, the World Bank, April 7, 2008

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