FACULTY

4600 Posvar Hall
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
412-648-7276
Fax: 412-624-7277
E-mail: barrya@pitt.edu

Professional Experience

2001-present Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh

1996-present Andrew Mellon Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Pittsburgh

1996 Professor, “Quantitative Analysis on Latin America,” ICPSR summer methodology program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. MI.

1994-1995 Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

1990-1995 Research in Brazil on electoral system and legislative behavior. Project supported by National Science Foundation, North-South Center, IRIS Foundation.

1993-1995 Chair, Committee on International Studies, Washington University.

1995-1996 Associate Chair, Department of Political Science, Washington University

1991-1994 Director of Graduate Program, Department of Political Science, Washington University, St. Louis.

1988-1996 Professor of Political Science, Washington University. St. Louis.

1977-1988 Associate Professor of Political Science, Washington University.

1983-1985 Economic Advisor, Office of Rep. Les Aspin, (specializing in fiscal and budgetary issues, international trade, and labor).

1982-1983 Research in Brazil on public finance issues during the transition to democratic government. Focus on five areas: interministerial spending tradeoffs, industrial deconcentration, low-income housing, agricultural development, and wage determination. Project supported by the National Science Foundation.

1980 Research Associate, Center for Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley; research on Latin American budgetary processes.

1976-1978 Tinker Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Stanford University; research on Latin American political economy and study in the core graduate curriculum in economics.

1973-1977 Assistant Professor of Political Science, Washington University, St. Louis.

1971-1973 Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of New Mexico

Education

Stanford University, B.A., 1966 (Political Science)

Stanford University, Ph.D., 1972 (Political Science). Comparative Politics/Latin America; Organization Theory

Stanford University, 1976-1978, Postdoctoral study in Economics. (completed basic graduate curriculum in economics, including macro- and micro- sequences and development economics)

Publications

Books

The Deadlock of Democracy in Brazil. University of Michigan Press. 2001.

Political Survival: Politicians and Public Policy in Latin America, Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1987.

Rhetoric and Reality in a Militarized Regime: Brazil After 1964, Sage Professional Papers in Comparative Politics, Vol. 4, 01-042, Beverly Hills and London: Sage Publications, 1973.

Articles

“A Democracia Brasileira: Uma Democracia em Xeque.” 2001. In Alzira Alves de Abreu. Transição em fragmentos: desafios da democracia no final do seculo XX. Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Getúlio Vargas.

“Parties and Governability in Brazil.” 2001. In Paul Webb, S. White and David Stansfield, eds., Political Parties in Transitional Democracies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

“Party Discipline in Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies.” 2001. In Scott Morgenstern and Benito Nacif, eds., Legislatures in Latin America. Cambridge, NY: Cambridge University Press.

“Disciplina partidária na câmara dos deputados.” 2001. Dados. (Forthcoming).

“Disciplina partidária na camara dos deputados do brasil.” 2000. Política e Gobierno. 7:1 (primer semestre).

“Institutions and Democracy in Brazil.” 2000. In Howard Handelman and Mark Kessler, eds., Democracy and its Limits: Lessons from Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press.

“Approaches to the Study of Institutions in Latin American Politics.” 1999. Latin American Research Review. 34:1 (Winter).

"The Politics of Sustainable Development: Environmental Policy Making in Four Brazilian States." 1997-1998. Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs. 39:4. Pp. 1-40. (Co-authored with Margaret Keck.)

"Soft Theory, Hard Evidence: Rational Choice and Empirical Investigation in Brazil," Occasional paper Number 217 of the Latin American program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Spring, 1996.

"Comparative Politics and the Replication Controversy," 1996. Newsletter of the American Political Science Association's Organized Section in Comparative Politics, 7:1. (Winter).

"Electoral Strategy Under Open-List Proportional Representation" American Journal of Political Science. May, 1995.

"Electoral Rules, Constituency Pressures, and Pork Barrel: Bases of Voting in the Brazilian Congress," Journal of Politics. 57:2 (May, 1995).

"Politics in Brazil," in W.P. Shively, ed., Comparative Governance. Chicago: McGraw-Hill. (1995).

"The Reverse Coattails Effect: Local Party Organization in the 1989 Brazilian Presidential Election," American Political Science Review, March, 1994.

"A Organização Partidária Local nas Eleições Presidenciais Brasileiras de 1989," Dados - Revista de Ciências Sociais. 37:1 (July, 1994).

"Electoral and Legislative Politics in Brazil: New Data," APSA-CP. (newsletter of the American Political Science Association's Organized Section in Comparative Politics) v. 4, no. 1, Winter 1993.

"The Dynamics of Congressional Elections in Brazil, 1978-1990," in Luis Pedone, ed., Sistemas Eleitorais e Processos Políticos Comparados, Brasília: OEA/UnB, 1993.

"Military and Society in Latin America," Latin American Research Review, Volume 23, No. 1, 1988.

"Legislative Politics and the Distribution of Public Expenditures in Brazil, 1947-1964,"
ComparativePolitics, January, 1987.

"O Congresso e a Política Orçamentária no Brasil durante o Período Pluripartidário," Dados, Vol. 29, No. 2, 1986.

"Survival Strategies and Expenditure Tradeoffs in Latin America," Policy Studies Journal, September, 1980.

"The Politics of Public Spending in Latin America," American Journal of Political Science, February, 1977.

"Education and Defense Expenditures in Latin America: 1948-1968," in C. Liske, W. Loehr, and J. McCamant, eds., Comparative Public Policy: Issues, Theories, and Methods, New York:
Halsted-Sage, 1975. co-authored with Ed Goff.

"Policy Making in a Militarized Regime: Brazil After 1964," in G. Dorfman and S. Schmidt, eds., The Military in Politics, New York: Geron-X, Inc., 1974.

Mexican University Students in Politics: Rebels Without Allies? University of Denver: The Monograph Series in World Affairs, June, 1970. Co-authored with William Tuohy.

"Bases of Support for Mexico's Dominant Party," American Political Science Review, March, 1970. Reprinted in Foro Internacional.

Work in Progress and Under Consideration for Publication “Politics and Social Communication in Latin America,” (This project is a context-sensitive, multi-wave panel survey undertaken at the level of neighborhoods in two Brazilian cities, Juiz de For and Caxias do Sul. We identify our main respondents’ political discussants and interview these discussants. We also analyze the content of media communications as well as local networks of political activists. This project is supported by a grant of $221,000 from the National Science Foundation.)

“Culture vs. Institutions in the Support of Democracy in Latin America: a Cross-National Approach” (With Mitchell Seligson, Siddartha Baviskar and Mary Malone, to be presented at Midwest Political Science Association convention, April, 2001)

“Political Attitudes in Cabo Verde,” (This project is part of the Afro-Barometer.

Professional Consulting Experience

2002-3 Senior Technical Director, Lusophone section of Afrobarometer, responsible for survey management and analysis in Mocambique and Cabo Verde

2000 Participant, 3rd International Planning Conference for the Afrobarometer Center for Development and Democracy, Accra, Ghana, October 23-27

1999-2000 USAID contract to assist public opinion polling in Moçambique

1992-1993 World Bank mission to Brazil to examine policy making in environmental area

1991-1992 World Bank mission to Angola to examine institutional aspects of public expenditures

1990 International consultant on FUNCEP project on executive-legislative relations

1989-1990 World Bank study of implications of 1989 election in Brazil

1989 World Bank Study of agricultural policy making in Brazil

1988 World Bank mission to Brazil to examine reforms in the coffee marketing board World Bank mission to Brazil to study decision making in foreign trade, social and agriculture as part of project on the "Political Economy of Reform"

1987 World Bank mission to Costa Rica to (1) develop new components for Technical Assistance Loan for public sector rationalization and (2) supervise ongoing technical assistance in the area of budgetary reform

1987 World Bank mission to Kuwait to assess institutional issues relevant to Plan Monitoring and Follow-Up system

1986 World Bank mission to Ghana to evaluate public sector management component of Structural Adjustment Credit and propose long-term strategy for assistance in institutional development

1985-1986 USAID, Advisor to Bureau of Science and Technology on planning and design of public sector management projects in Latin America, with special attention to state enterprise reform

1985 World Bank mission to Guinea-Bissau to evaluate public administration component of technical assistance credit

Recent Convention Papers and other Participation (partial list)

Culture vs. Institutions in the Support of Democracy in Latin America: a Cross-National Approach” (With Mitchell Seligson, Siddartha Baviskar and Mary Malone, to be presented at Midwest Political Science Association convention, April, 2001). Also chair of panel.

“Rational-choice Institutionalism in Latin America,” delivered at the APSA convention, Washington, September, 2000

“Political Patronage in Latin America, a quantitative approach.” Delivered at the Latin American Studies Association Convention, Miami, FL, 2000.

“Political Constraints on Policy Makers in Brazil,” to delivered at the World Bank, March, 2001.

“The Political Economy of Reform In Brazil,” delivered at a conference on the impact of the Asian Crisis on Latin America. Washington, DC, February, 1998

“Parties and Coalitions in the Brazilian Legislature,”conference of the Latin American Studies Association, Guadalajara, Mexico, 1997.

"Rational Choice Approaches to the Study of Latin American Politics," conference of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington, DC, 1995.

"Soft Theory, Hard Evidence: Rational Choice and Empirical Investigation in Brazil" (Given at a conference on rational choice theory and the political economy of development at Northwestern University, May 10-12, 1995.)

"Measuring Democracy: How Can We Know It When We See It?" participant in roundtable at Midwest Political Science Association Convention, April, 1996.

"Overcoming Legislative Chaos: Strategies of Party Cooperation in Brazil," delivered at the International Political Science Association Convention, August 22, 1994, Berlin, Germany.

"Understanding New Legislatures: Observations and Evidence from the Brazilian Congress," delivered at the convention of the American Political Science Association, Sept. 2, 1993. (With David Nixon)

"The Reverse Coattails Effect: The Effect of Local Party Endorsements on National Presidential Candidates in the 1989 Brazilian Presidential Election," Midwest Political Science Association, May, 1993

"Disparately Seeking Politicians: Strategies and Outcomes in Brazilian Legislative Elections," Latin American Studies Association Convention, October, 1992

Roundtable on "Democracy and Markets," in Midwest Political Science Association Convention, April, 1992

"Class and Clientele in the Dynamics of Electoral Politics," delivered at the Covention of the American Political Science Association, September 1-3, 1989, Atlanta, GA

"Comment on Remmer and Merckx," at the Levy Conference on Latin American Debt, Bard College, October, 1989

"Politicians, Survival, and Public Policy in Latin America," delivered at the Convention of the American Political Science Association, September 3-5, 1987, Chicago, Illinois

"When Soldiers Need Friends: The Search for Legitimacy by an Authoritarian Regime in Retreat," delivered at the Convention of the Latin American Studies Association, April 20, 1985, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Professional Participation

Chair, Best Paper in Comparative Politics Award, 2001 APSA.

Member, Data Set Prize Committee, APSA organized section on comparative politics

Member, executive committee, APSA organized section on comparative politics

Chair, organized section on political institutions, Latin American Studies Association, 1997.

Professor, ICPSR summer methodology course for Latin Americanists. 1996

Member, ICPSR committee on archived data sets in comparative politics

Chairman, Selection Committee for Award to Outstanding Book in Political Economy, American Political Science Association, 1993

Member, Editorial Board, Latin American Research Review and Journal of Politics

Reviewer: APSR, AJPS, LARR, JOP, ISQ, National Science Foundation, etc.

Recent Invited Lectures

The ‘Deadlock of Democracy in Brazil,” Penn State University, April, 2000.

“Electoral and Legislative Politics in Brazil,” Tulane University, February, 2000.

“Party Discipline in Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies.” Department of Political Science, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. October 24, 1999.

“Institutions and Governance in the Third World.” Keynote address, West Virginia Political Science Assocation Convention, 1998, Charlestown WV.

“Current Political Outlook in Latin America.” University of Iowa Conference on Latin America, Iowa City, IA. October, 1997.

"The Crisis of Governability in Brazil." Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC. May, 1995.

"Mexico and Brazil: Contemporary Issues." Brookings Institution, Washington, DC. 1994.

"Institutions and Pork in Brazil," Department of Political Science, University of Iowa, 1992.

"Open-List Proportional Representation," Department of Political Science, Northwestern University, 1991.

"Strategy and Outcomes Under Open-List PR in Brazil," Department of Poitics, Princeton, 1991.

"Como funciona o sistema eleitoral brasileiro" University of Brasília, Department of Political Science and International Relations, 1991.

"Institutions and the Transition to Democracy in Brazil," University of London, Center for Latin American Studies and Center for Brazilian Studies, 1990.

"Survival Strategies of Politicians in Latin America," Columbia, Institute of Latin American Studies, 1990.

"Survival Strategies of Politicians in Latin America," Rutgers, Department of Political Science, 1990.

"Spatial Statistics and Latin American Political Research," University of Washington, Departments of Political Science and Statistics, 1990.

"Survival Strategies of Politicians in Latin America," UCLA, Department of Political Science, 1989.

USIA-invited lecturer in Brazil: Belo Horizonte, São Paulo, Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro. 1991.

Recent Awards

National Science Foundation, “The Dynamics of Political Attitude Formation in a Milieu of Multiple Weak Parties: A Context-Sensitive Analysis of Voting Behavior in Two Brazilian Cities.” January 1,2002–December 31,2003. $221,000.

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellow, 1994-1995

North-South Center Grant, 1994-95 ($16,500)

Sabbatical Leave Award, Washington University, 1994-1995

IRIS (Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector) Project, 1994, ($12,000)

National Science Foundation Research Grant, 1990-1991 ($86,000)

National Science Foundation Research Grant, 1982-1984 ($72,000)

Sabbatical Leave Award, Washington University, 1980-1981

Fulbright Faculty Research Abroad Program, 1980 (declined)

Tinker Foundation PostDoctoral Fellowship, 1976-1978

Research Affiliations

University of Brasília (UnB), visiting scholar, 1990 and 1993.

University Research Institute of Rio de Janeiro (IUPERJ), visiting researcher, 1982-1983

Fundaçãao Getúlio Vargas, visiting researcher, 1969-1970.

Dissertations Chaired at Washington University

Michelle Lorenzini, "Exchange Rate Decision Making in the Asian Tigers," 2000

Migara de Silva, "Dutch Disease in Indonesia and Nigeria," 1996.

Kirstin Hamann, "Labor Legislation in Spain," 1995

Bruce Wilson," Politics of Economic Policy in Costa Rica and Jamaica," 1992

Keith Yanner, "Democratization in Mexico, 1988-1991." 1992

Diana Mosovich Pont-Lezica, "Collective Action in an Unstable Environment," 1990

Margaret Sherraden. "Social Policy Reform in Mexico: Rural Primary Health Services," 1989 (Department of Sociology)

Rosario Espinal, "Classes, Power and Political Change in the Dominican Republic," 1985 (Department of Sociology)

Thomas Lancaster, "Regime Change and Public Policy in Spain," 1983

Lois Oppenheim, "Quest for Unity in Allende's Chile," 1980

Benjamin Crosby. "Political Parties in Costa Rica," 1976

Dissertations Chaired or co-chaired at the University of Pittsburgh

Jon Hiskey, “Does Democracy Matter?: Electoral Competition and Local Development in Mexico”

Vince McIlhinney, “Empowerment in El Salvador”

Lucio Renno, “Context and Competition in Brazilian Election”

Languages

Portuguese and Spanish