Latin American Studies Association
Economics and Politics Section
Current Research and Recent Publications
This page is intended to serve as a clearinghouse for recently published or forthcoming work, working papers and current research projects in an attempt to facilitate the exchange of ideas for both scholarly work and classroom use.
Any and all submissions are welcomed and encouraged. Please send your citations, links to papers, or electronic copies of papers to Peter Kingstone at kingston@uconnvm.uconn.edu MS Office-compatible papers are preferred for files.
As this page is, by definition, constantly under construction, suggestions
are much appreciated!
"Compared to What? Assessing Brazilian Political Institutions." (With Philippe Faucher and Magdalena Dembinska.). Paper presented at ISA Annual Meeting 2004, Montreal.
"Currency
Crises and Decision-making Frameworks: The Politics of Bouncing Back in
Argentina and Brazil."
Paper presented at LASA Annual Congress 2003, Dallas, Texas.
other work can be found at http://www.mindspring.com/~leslie.armijo/research.html
"Explaining Free Trade: Mexico 1985-1988," Latin American Politics and Society, v. 45, n. 4 (November 2003).
"Game Theory, Business Associations and the Promotion of Small Business Networks in Northern Mexico," Paper presented at the 2003 Academy of International Business conference, Monterey, CA. July 2003. (MS Word Document)
Los empresarios organizados y el Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte, coedition of Miguel Angel Porrúa and Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, UNAM, México, 2004.
La reconstrucción de la economía cubana, provisional title, Editorial Universal, Miami, forthcoming 2004, English edition under preparation;
"El desarrollo de una economía de mercado: El Caso de Cuba" in Joaquín P. Pujol (ed.) Cuba: Políticas económicas para la transición Editorial Verbum, Madrid, 2004;
"La naturaleza de la economía cubana en el ocaso de Castro" and "El futuro de la economía cubana" both articles in I Congreso Internacional de Cultura Cubana, Editorial Aduana Vieja, Cádiz, España, 2004.
Prologue to the book by Oscar Espinosa-Chepe, Crónicas de un desastre: Apuntes sobre economía cubana 1996-2002, Editorial Hispano Cubana, Madrid, 2004.
Current Research: updating a monograph written in 1992 on the Crisis of Education in Latin America; working on a book about the nature of the Cuban economy in a political context (an insider's perspective) during the revolution.
"Orphaned by Democracy: Small Industry in Contemporary Mexico" Comparative Politics 35 (October 2002), pp. 43-62.
"The Political Economy of Intellectual Property Protection: The Case of Software," International Studies Quarterly, forthcoming (co-authored with Andrew Schrank and Marcus Kurtz).
"Patents and Pills, Power and Procedure: The North-South Politics of Public Health in the WTO," Studies in Comparative International Development 39, No. 3 (forthcoming, Fall 2004).
"Political Business Cycles in Emerging Markets: The Case of Brazil." (MS Word Document)