FACULTY

Barry Ames, PhD Stanford University, 1972 Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Comparative Politics E-mail: barrya@pitt.edu Curriculum Vitae

COURSES/SYLLABI

PS 1302 Political Development
PS 1321 Latin American Politics
PS 2321 Graduate Field Seminar in Latin American Politics
PS 2381 Quantitative and Formal Analysis in Latin American Political Science

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Comparative politics, Latin America, legislative behavior, electoral systems, political economy

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

“Strategy, Careers, and Judicial Decisions: Lessons from the Bolivian Courts,” Journal of Politics, May 2006. (with Anibal Perez-Linan and Mitchell Seligson).

“Social Context and Voter Volatility in New Democracies: Networks and Neighborhoods in Brazil's 2002 Elections,” American Journal of Political Science, May 2006 (with Andrew Baker and Lucio Renno).

“Hide the Republicans, the Christians, and the Women: A Response to "Politics and Professional Advancement Among College Faculty,” The Forum 3(2), 2005 (with David Barker, Chris Bonneau, and Chris Carman).

The Deadlock of Democracy in Brazil. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.

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

“The Politics of Environmental Policy Making in Brazil,” Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 39(4), 1997-1998 (with Margaret Keck).

“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.

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

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

OTHER FACULTY AND PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

Core faculty member of the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) of the University Center for International Studies (UCIS).

Chair, Section on Political Institutions, Latin American Studies Association.

Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh

Latin American Politics at the University of Pittsburgh