FACULTY

Scott Morgenstern, PhD University of California, San Diego, 1996 Associate Professor of Political Science E-mail: smorgens@pitt.edu Curriculum Vitae Personal Webpage

COURSES/SYLLABI

PS 0300 Comparative Politics
PS 1324 US-Latin American Relations
PS 1381 Capstone Seminar in Comparative Politics
PS 2321 Latin American Politics
PS 2384 Topics in Comparative Politics

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Comparative Politics, Political Institutions, Political Parties, Legislatures, Latin American Politics

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

“Explaining Hydrocarbon Nationalization in Latin America: Economics and Political Ideology,” with Andrae Marak and Ruben Berrios.  Review of International Political Economy. 2010.

“Party Nationalization and Institutions,” with Stephen Swindle and Andrea Castagnola. Journal of Politics. 2009.

“Campaigning in an Electoral Authoritarian Regime: The Case of Mexico,” with Joy Langston. Comparative Politics. Jan. 2009.

“The PRI’s Choice: Balancing Democratic Reform and Its Own Salvation,” 2006. with Adam Brinegar and Daniel Nielson. Party Politics 12: 77 - 97.

“Are Politics Local?: An Analysis of Voting Patterns in 23 Democracies,” 2005. with Stephen Swindle. Comparative Political Studies 38, pp. 143-170.

“The Components of Elections: District Heterogeneity, District-Time Effects, and Volatility,” 2005. with R. Potthoff. Electoral Studies 24, pp. 17-40.

“Legislative Oversight: Interests and Institutions in the United States and Argentina,” 2003, with Luigi Manzetti, in Mainwaring and O’Donnell, Institutions, Accountability, and Democratic Governance in Latin America. Oxford University Press.

Patterns of Legislative Politics: Roll Call Voting in the United States and Latin America’s Southern Cone, 2003. Cambridge University Press.

Legislative Politics in Latin America, 2002. Co-editor (with Benito Nacif) and contributor, Cambridge University Press.

“Latin America's Reactive Assemblies and Proactive Presidents,” 2001. with
Gary Cox, Comparative Politics 33(2), pp. 171-190.

“Better the Devil You Know than the Saint You Don't? Risk Propensity and
Vote Choice in Mexico,” 2001. with Elizabeth Zechmeister, Journal of
Politics 63(1), pp. 93-119.

“Organized Factions and Disorganized Parties: Electoral Incentives in
Uruguay,” 2001. Party Politics 7(2), pp. 235-256.

“The Incumbency Advantage in Multimember Districts: Evidence from the U.S.
States,” 1995. with Gary Cox. Legislative Studies Quarterly 3, pp. 329-349.

“The Increasing Advantage of Incumbency in the U.S. States,” 1993. with Gary Cox. Legislative Studies Quarterly 4, pp. 495-514.

OTHER FACULTY AND PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh (2005 - present)

Assistant Professor, Duke University (1997 - 2005)

Visiting Professor, Institute for Latin American Studies, University of Salamanca, Spain (2001-2002)

Assistant Professor, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), Mexico (1996 - 1997)