Ernesto Calvo
Professor of Government and Politics Director, Computational Social Science Lab, iLCSS
University of Maryland College Park MD 20742
[email protected] (832) 276-7890
May 2021
EDUCATION 2001: P.h.D. in Political Science. Northwestern University. Comparative Politics, Methods, and Political Economy.
1990: University of Buenos Aires. Licenciado en Ciencia Pol´ıtica. Honor Diplo- ma.
TEACHING 2015- : Professor, University of Maryland, USA.
2010-2015: Associate Professor, University of Maryland, USA.
2007-2010: Associate Professor, University of Houston, USA.
2007- : Guest Professor at the Universidad Torcuato di Tella (Argentina), Uni- versidad de San Martin (Argentina), Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina), CIDE (Mexico), FLACSO (Mexico), USP (Sao Paulo, Brazil), UC (Chile), Uni- versidad de la Republica (Uruguay), Universidad de Salamanca (Spain).
2002-2007: Assistant Professor, University of Houston, USA.
1999-2002: Clinical Assistant Professor, Universidad Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1998-1999: Instructor. Political Science Department. University of Illinois at Chicago. USA.
1998-1999: Instructor. Northwestern University. USA.
AWARDS (2021) Recipient of the BSOS Excellence in Research Award.
(2016) Recipient of the Michael Wallerstein Award from the Political Economy Section of the American Political Science Association for the Article: Calvo, Ernesto and Jonathan Rodden. “The Achilles Heel of Plurality Systems: Geo- graphy and Representation in Multiparty Democracies.” American Journal of Political Science, 59/4 (October) 2015: 789-805.
(2014) Recipient of the CPS Editorial Board Best Paper for the article Calvo, Ernesto and Maria Victoria Murillo. 2013. “When Parties Meet Voters Assessing Political Linkages Through Partisan Networks and Distributive Expectations in Argentina and Chile.” Comparative Political Studies (CPS) no. 46 (7):851-882.
(2012) Recipient of the Lawrence Longley Award for the Best Article on Re- presentation and Electoral Systems in 2011 by the American Political Science Association: Calvo, Ernesto and Timothy Hellwig. “Centripetal and Centrifu- gal Incentives under Different Electoral Systems”, American Journal of Political Science (AJPS), 55(1): 27-41.
(2008) Recipient of the Best Paper Award in the 3rd International Conference on Electronic Voting, co-organized by the Council of Europe. Paper: Assessing the impact of voting technologies on multiparty electoral outcomes: the case of Buenos Aires’ 2005 Congressional Election, Gabriel Katz, R. Michael Alvarez, Ernesto Calvo, Marcelo Escolar and Julia Pomares. August 6-9, Bregenz, Aus- tria: 2008.
(2006) Recipient of the LAPIS Award from the Latin American Studies As- sociation (LASA) for best Faculty Article presented at the 2005 XXV LASA Congress. For the paper: “The Governor’s Backyard: A Seat-Vote model of elec- toral reform for multiparty races.” Journal of Politics, Vol. 67. N. 4, November:
pp. 1050-1074. Ernesto Calvo and Juan Pablo Miccozi.
(2005) Co-recipient of the Leubbert Best Article Award from the American Political Science Association (APSA), 2003-2004. For the article: Calvo, Ernes- to and Maria Victoria Murillo. 2004. “Who Delivers? Partisan Clients in the Argentine Electoral Market,” American Journal of Political Science (AJPS), 48(4): 742-757.
(1998) David Manor Award to Outstanding Graduate Student, Northwestern University.
SOCIAL MEDIA
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Z5AZ0PgAAAAJ Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ernesto Calvo
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ecalvo68
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ernestocalvo6742b8 iLCSS Website: http://ilcss.umd.edu
BOOKS 5. (2020) Aruguete, Natalia and Ernesto Calvo. Fake News, Burbujas, Trolls y Otros Encantos: C´omo funcionan (para bien y para mal) las redes sociales.
Siglo XXI Editores, Argentina.
4. (2019) Calvo, Ernesto and Maria Victoria Murillo. Non-Policy Politics: Rich Voters, Poor Voters, and the diversification of electoral strategies. Cambridge University Press.
3. (2015) Calvo, Ernesto. Anatom´ıa Pol´ıtica de Twitter en Argentina: Tuiteando
#Nisman. Capital Intelectual. Buenos Aires. Argentina.
2. (2014) Calvo, Ernesto. Legislative Success in Fragmented Congresses in Argen- tina: Plurality Cartels, Minority Presidents, and Lawmaking. Cambridge Uni- versity Press.
1. (2005) Calvo, Ernesto and Marcelo Escolar. La Nueva Pol´ıtica de Partidos en la Argentina: Crisis Pol´ıtica, Realineamientos Partidarios y Reforma Electoral.
Prometeo: Argentina.
EDITED BOOKS 2. (2015) Escolar, Marcelo, Ernesto Calvo, Juan Manuel Abal Medina (Jr), Ale- jandro Tulio. Un sistema electoral para la democracia: los or´ıgenes de la repre- sentaci´on proporcional. Siglo XXI: Buenos Aires. ISBN. 978-987-629-529-1.
1. (2001) Calvo, Ernesto and Juan Manuel Abal Medina (Eds.). El Federalismo Electoral Argentino. University of Buenos Aires Press: Buenos Aires.
BOOKS IN PROGRESS
3. (2021) Detaining Immigrants, Scoring Criminals: How scoring algorithms trans- formed anti-immigrant sentiments into policy. With Robert Koulish.
2. (2020) Coaliciones, Partidos, Territorio. With Marcelo Escolar. In Progress.
1. (2021) Voting the Agenda: Politics in the Era of Social Media. With Natalia Aruguete and Tiago Ventura.
EDITED JOURNAL ISSUES
2. (2017) Special Issue of the Journal of Electoral Studies. “Fat politics, lean poli- tics: Parties and elections in good and bad times”, Electoral Studies 45:161-162.
February 2017.
1. (2013) Special Number of the Journal of the Argentine Society of Political Analyses (SAAP). “Thirty Years of Democracy.”SAAP, Volume 7, Number 2, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
ARTICLES (Refereed)
50. (Forthcoming) Aruguete, Natalia, Ernesto Calvo, Tiago Ventura. News By Po- pular Demand: Ideology, Reputation, and Issue Attention in Social Media News Sharing. International Journal of Press/Politics (IJPP).
49. (2021) Aleman, Eduardo, Ernesto Calvo, and Jose Cabezas. “Coalition Incen- tives and Party Bias in Chile”. Electoral Studies, 72, 102362.
48. (2021) Aruguete, Natalia, Ernesto Calvo, Francisco Cant´u, Sandra Ley, Carlos Scartascini, and Tiago Ventura. “Partisan Cues and Perceived Risks: The effect of partisan social media frames during the Covid-19 crisis in Mexico”. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties (JEPOP).
47. (2021) Koulish, Robert and Ernesto Calvo. The Human Factor: Algorithms, Dissenters, and Detention in Immigration Enforcement. Social Science Quar- terly (SSQ).
46. (2021) Calvo, Ernesto and Tiago Ventura. “Will I Get COVID-19? Partisanship, Social Media Frames, and Perceptions of Health Risk in Brazil”. Latin American Politics and Society (LAPS). 63(1): 1-26.
45. (2020) Aruguete, Natalia, Ernesto Calvo, Tiago Ventura. Polarization, News Sharing, and Gatekeeping: A study of the #Bolsonaro Election. Digital Jour- nalism, 9(1): 1-23.
44. (2020) Banks, Antoine, Ernesto Calvo, David Karol, and Shibley Telhami. #Po- larized Feeds - Two Experiments on Polarization and Social Media. The Inter- national Journal of Press/Politics, 1940161220940964.
43. (2020) Alca˜niz, Isabella, Ernesto Calvo, and Marcelo Escolar. “A Survey Expe- riment on Bad Bosses: Managers, Social Networks, and the Gender Evaluation Gap.” Latin American Research Review (LARR): Volume 55(4), 631–647. DOI:
http://doi.org/10.25222/larr.453.
42. (2020) Bonvechi, Alejandro, Ernesto Calvo, and Ernesto Stein. “Legislating Fis- cal Imbalance: Using Tax Policy to Protect Fiscal Decentralization in the Argen-
tine Congress”. Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 620–644. doi:10.1093/publius/pjaa001.
41. (2020) Aruguete, Natalia and Ernesto Calvo. Coronavirus en Argentina: Polari- zaci´on partidaria, encuadres medi´aticos y temor al riesgo. Revista SAAP. 14(2):
281-310.
40. (2019) Calvo, Ernesto y Paula Clerici. “Despu´es de la Delegaci´on: La retrac- ci´on de la autonom´ıa legislativa del Poder Ejecutivo en Argentina”. Revista de Ciencia Politica (RCP), 39(3), 411-433.
39. (2019) Calvo, Ernesto, Elverd´ın, Ana S., Kessler, Gabriel, & Murillo, Maria V.
“Investigando las influencias internacionales en las ciencias sociales argentinas.
Revista Latinoamericana de Metodolog´ıa de las Ciencias Sociales” (Relmecs), 9(2), e055-e055.
38. (2019) Alca˜niz, Isabella, Ernesto Calvo, and Marcelo Escolar. “Mavericks versus Party Insiders: A Survey Experiment on Candidate- and Party-Centric Attitu- des of Voters.” Latin American Politics and Society (LAPS), 61(4), 118-134.
doi:10.1017/lap.2019.27.
37. (2018) Aruguete, Natalia and Ernesto Calvo. “Time to #Protest: Cognitive Dissonance, Selective Exposure, and Time-to-Retweet in Argentina.” Journal of Communication (JoC), 68(3): 480-502.
36. (2018) Aruguete, Natalia and Ernesto Calvo. “#Tarifazo. Medios Tradicionales y Fusion de Agenda en Redes Sociales” Inmediaciones de la Comunicacion, 13(1): 189-213.
35. (2018) Aruguete, N., & Calvo, E. “Redes sociais e pol´ıtica na Argentina.” Re- vista Eletrˆonica de Estudos Integrados em Discurso e Argumenta¸c˜ao, 1(16), 299-313.
34. (2017) Calvo, Ernesto and Lorena Moscovich. “Inequality, Protests, and the Progressive Allocation of Cash Transfers in the Argentine Provinces.” Latin American Politics and Society, 59(2): 3-26.
33. (2017) Calvo, Ernesto, Timothy Hellwig, Kiyoung Chang. 2016. “The Valence Gap: Economic Cycles, Perceptions of Competence, and the Party System.”
Electoral Studies 45, 163-172. February 2017.
32. (2016) Calvo, Ernesto and Daniel Chasquetti. “Legislative Success in Open Sky Congresses: Weak Gatekeeping Prerogatives and the Approval of Legislative Initiatives.”Journal of Legislative Studies (JLAS), 22(1): 83-107.
31. (2016) Alcaniz, Isabella, Ernesto Calvo, and Julia Rubio. “Educadamente De- siguales: G´enero y Salario en el Sector P´ublico Argentino (2003-2010).” Desa- rrollo Econ´omico, 55(217): 343-357.
30. (2016) Calvo, Ernesto, Alejandro Bonvecchi, and Ernesto Stein. “Legislative Knowledge Networks, Status Quo Complexity, and the Approval of Law Initia- tives.” Legislative Studies Quarterly (LSQ), 41(2): 89-117.
29. (2015) Calvo, Ernesto, Fernando Limongi, and Fernando Guarnieri. “Why Coali- tions? Pro Small-Party Biases and Preferential Vote in Brazil.” Electoral Studies (ES) 39: 219-229.
28. (2015) Calvo, Ernesto and Jonathan Rodden. “The Achilles Heel of Plurality systems: Geography and Representation in Multi-Party Democracies.” Ameri- can Journal of Political Science (AJPS), 59(4): 789-805.
Recipient of the Michael Wallerstein Best Paper Award from the American Political Science Association, 2016
27. (2014) Calvo, Ernesto, Timothy Hellwig, Kiyoung Chang. “Beyond assimila- tion and contrast: Information effects, ideological magnification, and the vote.”
Electoral Studies (ES), Volume 36, December: 94-106.
26. (2013) Calvo, Ernesto, and Aldo F Ponce. 2013. “Meet the Producer: Exchan- ge Rate Shocks, Media Salience, and the Legislative Importance of Econo- mic Sectors in Argentina.” Studies in Comparative International Development (SCID):1-25.
25. (2013) Alem´an, Eduardo, and Ernesto Calvo. 2013. “Explaining Policy Ties in Presidential Congresses: A Network Analysis of Bill Initiation Data.” Political Studies, 61 (2):356-377.
24. (2013) Calvo, Ernesto and Maria Victoria Murillo. “When Parties Meet Voters Assessing Political Linkages Through Partisan Networks and Distributive Ex- pectations in Argentina and Chile.” Comparative Political Studies (CPS) no.
46 (7):851-882.
Recipient of the CPS Editorial Board Best Paper Award of 2014.
Spanish Version: Calvo, Ernesto, and Mar´ıa Victoria Murillo. 2013. “Cuando los partidos pol´ıticos se encuentran con sus votantes: un an´alisis de los v´ınculos pol´ıticos a trav´es de las redes partidarias y las expectativas distributivas en Argentina y Chile.” Am´erica Latina Hoy No. 65: 15-44.
23. (2012) Calvo, Ernesto and Marcelo Leiras. “The Nationalization of Legislative Collaboration: Territory, Partisanship, and Policymaking in Argentina.”RIEL.
Vol. 2: 2-19, Brazil.
22. (2012) Calvo, Ernesto and Maria Victoria Murillo. “Argentina: The Persistence of Peronism,” Journal of Democracy, 23(2): 148-161.
21. (2011) Calvo, Ernesto and Timothy Hellwig. “Centripetal and Centrifugal In- centives under Different Electoral Systems,” American Journal of Political Scien- ce (AJPS), 55(1): 27-41.
Recipient of the Lawrence Longley Best Paper Award from the Ame- rican Political Science Association, 2012
20. (2011) Calvo, Ernesto and Inaki Sagarzazu. “Legislator Success in Committee:
Gatekeeping Authority and the Loss of Majority Control,” American Journal of Political Science (AJPS), 55(1): 1-15.
19. (2011) Katz, Gabriel, Michael Alvarez, Ernesto Calvo, Marcelo Escolar, Julia Pomares. “Assessing the Impact of Alternative Voting Technologies on Multi- party Elections: Design Features, Heuristic Processing and Voter Choice.” Po- litical Behavior. 33: 247-270.
18. (2010) Aleman, Eduardo and Ernesto Calvo. “Unified Government, Bill Appro- val, and the Legislative Weight of the President,” Comparative Political Studies (CPS), 43(4): 511-534.
17. (2009) Calvo, Ernesto and Andres Tow. “Cajoneando el debate: El papel de los presidentes de las comisiones en la productividad del Congreso argentino.”
Desarrollo Econ´omico, Vol. 49 (195), Argentina.
16. (2009) Calvo, Ernesto, Marcelo Escolar, Julia Pomares. “Split-ticket incentives under alternative e-voting devices: experimental evidence on information effects in multiparty elections.” Electoral Studies, Volume 28, Issue 2 (June): 218-23.
15. (2009) Calvo, Ernesto. “The Competitive Road to Proportional Representation:
Electoral Regime Change under Increasing Party Competition”, World Politics, Vol. 61, No. 2 (April): 254-295.
Spanish Version: Calvo, Ernesto, 2015. “La ruta Competitiva hacia la represen- taci´on proporcional: Sesgos Partidarios y Cambio del R´egimen Electoral en una Creciente Competencia de Partidos.” Publicado en: Escolar, Marcelo, Ernesto Calvo, Juan Manuel Abal Medina (Jr), Alejandro Tullio. Un sistema electoral
para la democracia: los or´ıgenes de la representaci´on proporcional. Siglo XXI:
Buenos Aires.
14. (2009) Aleman, Eduardo, Ernesto Calvo, Mark P. Jones, and Noah Kaplan.
“Comparing Cosponsorship and Roll Call Ideal Points,” Legislative Studies Quarterly (LSQ), XXXIV: 87-116.
13. (2007) Calvo, Ernesto. “The Responsive Legislature: Public Opinion and Law Making in a Highly Disciplined Legislature,”British Journal of Political Science (BJPS), Volume 37, Issue 02, April, pp 263-280.
12. (2005) Calvo, Ernesto and Juan Pablo Miccozi; “The Governor’s Backyard: A Seat-Vote model of electoral reform for multiparty races,” Journal of Politics (JOP), Vol.67, No.4, November: pp. 1050-1074.
Recipient of the LAPIS Best Article Award from the Latin Ame- rican Studies Association, 2006.
11. (2004) Calvo, Ernesto and Maria Victoria Murillo; “Who Delivers? Partisan Clients in the Argentine Electoral Market,”American Journal of Political Scien- ce (AJPS), 48(4): 742-757.
Co-recipient of the Leubbert Best Article Award from the American Political Science Association, 2005.
Republished in (2008) in Desarrollo Econ´omico, vol.47, No. 188 (January-March 2008): 515-542.
10. (2003) Calvo, Ernesto and Marcelo Escolar, “The Local Voter: A Geographi- cally Weighted Approach to Ecological Inference,” American Journal of Politi- cal Science (AJPS), 47(1): 188-204.
9. (2003) Calvo, Ernesto and Marcelo Escolar; “Las Tres Reformas: personaliza- ci´on, eficiencia y gobernabilidad. Geograf´ıa pol´ıtica de la reforma electoral en Argentina,” Pol´ıtica y Gesti´on. Vol. 2, Num 5. UNSAM. Agosto. Argentina.
8. (2003) Calvo, Ernesto and Marcelo Escolar; “La Implementaci´on de Sistemas Electorales Mixtos en Legislaturas de Magnitud Fija: Teor´ıas y Soluciones,”
Pol´ıtica y Gobierno. Vol. X, Num 2. Segundo Semestre. CIDE. Mexico.
7. (2002) Calvo, Ernesto and Juan Manuel Abal Medina; “Institutional Gamblers:
Majoritarian Representation, Electoral Uncertainty, and The Coalitional Costs of Mexico’s Hybrid Electoral System,” Electoral Studies (ES). 21: pg. 453-471.
6. (2002) Escolar, Marcelo; Ernesto Calvo, Sandra Minvielle; Christian Scaramella.
“Personalizaci´on, Representaci´on y Gobernabilidad: La Reforma del Sistema Electoral Argentino en la Categor´ıa Diputados Nacionales.” Revista Aportes, 9 (19), Primavera, 2002. Pg: 73-100.
5. (2002) Calvo, Ernesto; Marcelo Escolar, Natalia Calcagno and Sandra Minvielle;
“Ultimas Imagenes antes del Naufragio,” Desarrollo Econ´omico. Vol. 42, N. 166.
Argentina.
4. (2002) Calvo, Ernesto and Juan Manuel Abal Medina; “Sobredosis de Incerti- dumbre,” Pol´ıtica y Gesti´on. Vol. 1, N 3. Agosto. UNSAM. Argentina.
3. (2001) Calvo, Ernesto. “The Transformations of the Labor Markets in Latin America: Collective Bargaining and Industrial Wage Inequality,” Desarrollo Econ´omico, Vol. 41 N 163, 395(410), Argentina.
2. (2000) Calvo, Ernesto and Gibson, Edward; “Federalism and Low-Maintenance Constituencies: Territorial Dimensions of Economic Reform in Argentina,” Stu- dies in Comparative International Development (SCID). Vol. 35, 3. Fall, 2001.
1. (1999) Calvo, Ernesto; Falleti, Tulia; and Gibson, Edward; “Federalismo Re- distributivo: Sobrerrepresentaci´on territorial y transferencia de ingresos en el hemisferio occidental,” Politica y Gobierno, vol VI, Num 1. M´exico.
BOOK CHAPTERS
18. (2020) Ernesto Calvo and Gabriel Negretto. “When (electoral) opportunity knocks” in Brinks, D. M., Levitsky, S., & Murillo, M. V. (Eds.). (2020). The Po- litics of Institutional Weakness in Latin America. Cambridge University Press.
17. (2020) Ernesto Calvo, Joan Timoneda, and Tiago Ventura. “Big Relational Da- ta: Network-Analytic Measurement” in Luigi Curini & Robert Franzese. SAGE The SAGE handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations. SAGE U.P.
16. (2019) Ernesto Calvo. “Down to the Wire: Argentina’s 2015 Campaign” in Noam Lupu, Virginia Oliveros, & Luis Schiumerini. Campaigns and Voters in Developing Democracies. UMP: Michigan.
15. (2017) Aruguete, Natalia and Ernesto Calvo. “#TarifazoEnArgentina: Agenda Melding y difusi´on de mensajes en redes sociales” en Labate, Cecilia y Cesar Arrueta. 2017. La Comunicaci´on Digital: Redes Sociales, Nuevas Audiencias y Convergencias. UNJ: Argentina.
14. (2016) Calvo, Ernesto and I˜naki Sagarzazu. “Presidential Agenda Authority in Plurality-Led Congresses.” In Aleman, Eduardo and George Tsebelis. 2016.
Legislative Institutions and Lawmaking in Latin America. Oxford University Press.
13. (2014) Calvo, Ernesto and Maria Victoria Murillo. “Partisan Linkages and So- cial Policy Delivery in Argentina and Chile.” In Abente Brun, Diego and Larry Diamond. Clientelism, Social Policy, and the Quality of Democracy. The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore.
12. (2013) Calvo, Ernesto, Timothy Hellwig, and Kiyoung Chang. 2013. “A Hete- roscedastic Spatial Model of the Vote: A Model with Application to the United States.” In Advances in Political Economy, 351-368. Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
11. (2013) Calvo, Ernesto and Maria Victoria Murillo; “Argentina through the Storm: Democratic consolidation, partisan dealignment, and institutional weak- ness,” in Dominguez & Shifter, Constructing Democratic Governance, The Johns Hopkins UP.
10. (2013) Calvo, Ernesto. “Representaci´on Pol´ıtica, Pol´ıtica P´ublica y Estabili- dad Institucional en el Congreso Argentino.” In Acu˜na, Carlos. Instituciones y actores de la pol´ıtica argentina. Siglo XXI: Argentina.
9. (2011) Calvo, Ernesto. “Queda aprobado el plan de labor: Exito Legislativo y Control de Agenda en la C´amara de Diputados Argentina.” In Manuel Alc´antara and Mercedes Garc´ıa Montero. Algo m´as que presidentes. El papel del Poder Legislativo en Am´erica Latina. Zaragoza: Fundaci´on Manuel Gim´enez Abad de Estudios Parlamentarios y del Estado Auton´omico.
8. (2008) “Analyzing Legislative Success in Latin America: The Case of Argen- tina,” in Guillermo O’Donnell, Joseph Tulchin and Augusto Varas (eds.) New Voices in the Study of Democracy. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars: Woodrow Wilson Center.
7. (2007) Calvo, Ernesto; “Apuntes para entender la actividad legislativa en el Congreso de la Naci´on Argentina.” In Sergio Emiliozzi, Mario Pecheny, and Mart´ın Unzu´e Eds. La din´amica de la democracia: representaci´on, instituciones y ciudadan´ıa en Argentina. Buenos Aires: Prometeo.
6. (2006) Calvo, Ernesto and Maria Victoria Murillo; “A New Iron Law of Ar- gentine Politics?” in Levitsky, Steven and Maria Victoria Murillo, Rethinking Dual Transitions: Argentine Politics in the 1990s in Comparative Perspective.
University Park: Penn State Press.
5. (2004) Calvo, Ernesto and Marcelo Escolar; “Places and Relationships in Ecolo- gical Inference: Uncovering Contextual Effects through a Geographically Weigh- ted Autoregressive Model,” in Gary King, Ori Rosen, and Martin Tanner Eds.;
Ecological Inference: New Methodological Strategies, Oxford University Press.
4. (2004) Gibson, Edward, Ernesto Calvo and Tulia Falleti. “Reallocative Federa- lism: Legislative Overrepresentation and Public Spending in the Western He- misphere,” in Gibson, Edward, ed. 2004. Federalism and Democracy in Latin America. Johns Hopkins U.P: Baltimore. Spanish version in Politica y Gobierno (1999).
3. (2001) Calvo, Ernesto y Juan Manuel Abal Medina. “Votar a los Representan- tes”. En Calvo, Ernesto y Juan Manuel Abal Medina (Eds). 2001. El Federalismo Electoral Argentino. University of Buenos Aires Press: EUDEBA. Pp. 17-25.
2. (2001) Calvo, Ernesto, Mariela Szwarcberg, Juan Pablo Micozzi y Juan Facundo Labanca, “Las Fuentes Institucionales del Gobierno Dividido en la Argentina:
Sesgo Mayoritario, Sesgo Partidario y Competencia Electoral en las Legislaturas Provinciales Argentinas”. En Calvo, Ernesto y Juan Manuel Abal Medina (Eds).
2001. El Federalismo Electoral Argentino. University of Buenos Aires Press:
EUDEBA. Pp 53-98.
1. (2001) Juan Manuel Abal Medina and Ernesto Calvo. “Y Usted, ¿Por quien dice que voto?”. En Calvo, Ernesto y Juan Manuel Abal Medina (Eds). 2001. El Federalismo Electoral Argentino. University of Buenos Aires Press: EUDEBA.
Pp. 245-259.
ARTICLES (Non-refereed)
15. Calvo, E., Clerici, P., Vallejo Vera, S. (2021). Ciencia y pol´ıtica en tiempos del covid-19. Pol´ıtica y gobierno, 28(2).
14. (2020) Calvo, E. El voto menos anticipado: encuestas precisas, encuestados honestos, encuestadores preparados. M´as poder local, (40), 34-35.
13. (2017) Hellwig, T. and E. Calvo (2017). “Fat politics, lean politics: Parties and elections in good and bad times.”Electoral Studies 45: 161-162. Introduction to the special issue.
12. (2013) Calvo, Ernesto and Ricardo Gutierrez. “Introduction. Thirty Years of Democracy: Transitions and Transformations.”Special Number of the Journal of the Argentine Society of Political Analyses (SAAP ). Thirty Years of Democracy.
SAAP, Volume 7, Number 2: 237-244.
11. (2013) Calvo, Ernesto. “The Democratic Congress: Majorities and Consen- sus.”Special Number of the Journal of the Argentine Society of Political Analy- ses (SAAP ). Thirty Years of Democracy. SAAP, Volume 7, Number 2, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
10. (2013) Calvo, Ernesto and Ricardo Gutierrez. “Peronism and the Permanent Succession: Same Votes, Different Elites.”Special Number of the Journal of the Argentine Society of Political Analyses (SAAP ). Thirty Years of Democracy.
SAAP, Volume 7, Number 2, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
9. (2013) Alvaredo, Javier, Alejandro Bonvecchi, Ernesto Calvo, Maximiliano Cas- tillo Carrillo, Elssy Bonilla-Castro, and Juan C G´omez Sabaini. 2013. “Measu- ring the Political Economy of Tax Lawmaking: A Methodology and Evidence from Argentina.¨Inter-American Development Bank.
8. (2011) Leiras, Marcelo y Ernesto Calvo. “La Forma de Votar Importa: El impac- to de los instrumentos de votaci´on sobre la conducta electoral de las provincias Argentinas.”Nota T´ecnico 2011. CIPPEC, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
7. (2011) Calvo, Ernesto and Marcelo Leiras. “The Nationalization of Legislative Collaboration: Territory, Partisanship, and Policymaking in Argentina.”Working Paper, Universidad de Salamanca, DT # 6. Spain.
6. (2011) Calvo, Ernesto and I˜naki Sagarzazu. “El rol de las comisiones perma- nentes en las legislaturas de Am´erica Latina: un test del modelo informativo de
´exito legislativo.” Revista Latinoamericana de Pol´ıtica Comparada. Volumen 4:
25-48.
5. (2009) “Respuesta al comentario de Dora Orlansky. ¿Validez de una demostra- ci´on? Patronazgo y empleo p´ublico provincial.Revista Desarrollo Econ´omico, Buenos Aires, vol. 48, No 192, enero-marzo 2009 (pp. 559-561).
4. (2008) Calvo, Ernesto. “Nuevos Estudios sobre el poder Legislativo. In Abal Medina et.al. Investigaciones actuales sobre Estado,¨ınstituciones Pol´ıticas y So- ciedad. Buenso Aires: INAP.
3. (2006) Calvo, Ernesto. Book Review of Craig Arceneaux and David Pion-Berlin, Transforming Latin America: The international and domestic origins of chan- ge. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. Pp. 280. In Comparative Political Studies, 39 (5): 670-673 JUN 2006.
2. (2005) Calvo, Ernesto. “Argentina, Elecciones Legislativas 2005: Consolidaci´on Institucional del Kirchnerismo y Territorializaci´on del Voto,Revista de Ciencia Politica. Vol XXV, N 2, 153-160.
1. (2004) Calvo, Ernesto. “La Letra Chica del Contrato Democr´atico: Pol´ıtica Subnacional y Representaci´on Pol´ıtica,.EnRevista Lo Que Vendr´a. Universidad de Buenos Aires, Vol 1 (2), Noviembre, pg 35-37.
UNDER REVIEW
(2021) Aruguete, Natalia, Ernesto Calvo, Carlos Scartascini, and Tiago Ventura.
“Trustful voters, trustworthy politicians: A Survey Experiment on the influence of Social Media in Politics”.
(2020) Calvo, Ernesto, Silvio Waisbord, Tiago Ventura, Natalia Aruguete. Win- ning! Adjudication and Dialogue in Social Media.
GRANTS (2019-2020) Inter-American Development Bank. “Transparency, Trust, and So- cial Media”, 1300600-01-PEC. PI: Ernesto Calvo. U$S 24,000.-
(2019-2020) Chequeado: “Fact Checking and the propagation of misinformation in the 2019 Presidential Election in Argentina”, 1300600-01-PEC. PI: Ernesto Calvo. U$S 14,000.-
(2018-2019) Seed Grant UMD, Laboratory for Computational Social Science.
With J. Birnir and D. Waguespack. U$S 15,000.-
(2014-2015) Seed Grant UMD to organize the conference: ”Fat Politics, Lean Po- litics”, May 21 and 22, 2015, Morrill Hall, University of Maryland. U$S 15,000.- (2006-2008) NSF # 0617659, with Victoria Murillo. Patronage, Democracy, and the Public Sector: Estimating the Size and Structure of Patronage Networks.
Award No. SES-0617659. U$S 290,000.-
(2005) Research Fellowship of the Latin American Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, with Eduardo Aleman. Award No.
U$S 10,000.-
(2005) Small Grant Program Award, University of Houston. Award No. U$S 3,000.-
(2003) New Faculty Grant Award, University of Houston. Award No. U$S 6,000.-
(1997) Center for International and Comparative Studies (CICS) Graduate Stu- dent Research Grant .
(1996) Center for International and Comparative Studies (CICS) Graduate Stu- dent Research Grant.
(1996) Sawyer Mellon Research Grant.
(1991-1993): UBACYT Young Scholars’ Research Fellowship. Center for Ad- vanced Studies. UBA, Argentina.
(1988-1990): UBACYT Research Fellowship –Student Award–. Institute of So- cial Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Student Grants (2010-2011) NSF # 1024205. Marina Lacalle (CO-PI): Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: Institutional Variation, Balance of Power and Agenda Control: Evidence from the Argentine Subnational Legisla- tures. University of Houston.
CONFERENCE PRESENTA- TIONS
American Political Science Association: 1997, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2020.
Latin American Studies Association: 1997, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017.
Midwest Political Science Association: 1997, 1998, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018.
SAAP: 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
(2019- ) Director of the interdisciplinary Lab for Computational Social Science (iLCSS), UMD.
(2019-2020) Field Editor, Comparative Institutions, Journal of Politics (JOP).
(2015-2019) Editor, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Analisis Politico, SAAP.
Professional Committee work
(2018) Almond Dissertation Award Committee.
(2017) EPOVB Early Career Award Committee.
(2017) Heinz Eulau Award Committee.
(2013-2020) Editorial Board, Comparative Political Studies.
(2011- ) Editorial Board, Legislative Studies Quarterly.
(2016) Section Coordinator, Parties and Democratization, LASA.
(2014) Section Coordinator, Vote and Representation Section of the 2014 mee- ting of MPSA, Chicago.
(2011- 2013) Executive Board, Comparative Politics section of the American Political Science Association.
(2012) APSA Heinz Eulau Award Committee.
(2010-2014) Editorial Board, American Journal of Political Science.
(2010- 2014) Executive Council, Southern Political Science Association.
(2011) Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Data Set Award Committee.
(2011) SPSA Journal of Politics Best Paper Award Committee.
(2008) Section Coordinator of the Latin and Caribbean Section of the 2008 meeting of the Southern Political Science Association.
(2006) At Large Member of the Executive Committee of LAPIS (Political Ins- titutions section of the Latin American Studies Association).
Journal Reviewer
America Latina Hoy, American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Com- parative Political Studies, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Desa- rrollo Econ´omico, Electoral Studies, International Journal of Press/Politics, In- ternational Studies Quarterly, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, Journal of Communications, Journal of Politics, Journal of Legislative Studies, Latin American Politics and Society, Latin American Research Review, Legis- lative Studies Quarterly, Political Analysis, Political Studies, Political Research Quarterly, Pol´ıtica y Gesti´on (Mexico), Pol´ıtica y Gesti´on (UNSAM, Argenti- na), Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Revista de Ciencia Pol´ıtica (Chile), Studies in Comparative and International Development, Social Science Quar- terly, World Politics.
Academic Project Reviewer
Agencia Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (Argentina), CONICET (Argentina), National Science Foundation (USA), FONDECYT (Chile), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC, Canada).
University of Maryland, Committee work
Associate Chair of GVPT (2012-2018); Chair, BSOS Search, Computation for the Social Science Search; Co-Chair of the LASC Review Committee (2013), BSOS; Executive Committee (2010-2012), Coordinator of the Comparative Po- litics Sub-Field (2012- ).
Other Committee Service Merit Committee, Admissions, Search, Graduate Com- mittee, College P&T Committee.
University of Houston, Committee work
Executive Committee (2008-2009, 2009-2010); Search Committee (2002, 2004, 2005); Graduate Committee (2003-2004, 2006-2007, 2009-2010); Vision Com- mittee (2006-2007).
OTHER
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2012- Technical assistance to the project “The Political Economy of Tax Re- form,” Inter-American Development Bank RG-K1199.
2011- Assessment of the ballot reforms of Salta, Cordoba, and Santa Fe. CIP- PEC. Argentina.
2005- Advisor to the E-Vote Pilot, Government of the City of Buenos Aires, October 23.
2003- International monitor to the vote data processing unit (TSE) for the 2003 Presidential Election, Guatemala. November 9, 2003. Coordinated by Marcelo Escolar.
2001- 2002. Senior Researcher of the Political Reform program. Government of the City of Buenos Aires.
2000-2001. Head of the ”Political Reform”program. National Institute of Public Administration (INAP). Argentine Chief of Staff Cabinet (Jefatura de Gabine- te). Argentina.
2000-2001. Senior Researcher of the Argentine team of the four country study
“Democracy and Inequality in the XXIst Century”. CPS (South Africa), ITDT (Argentina), UESP (Brazil), Jean-John Bariya (Uganda).
PRESENTATIONS May 26, 2021: Elecciones en Chile. Universidad Mayor, Chile.
May 20, 2021: My partisan friends live in a bubble. Latinx Digital Media. North- western University.
April 16, 2021: Will I get COVID-19?. Latin American Politics Working Group.
Berkeley.
February 26, 2021: Sharing Populist Messages in Social Media. Columbia Uni- versity.
October 22, 2019: A Tweeted History of the 2019 Argentine Election: It’s not fake news if we believe the thread. DRLAS, Harvard University.
October 2, 2019: Non-Policy Politics, Sadat Chair, UMD.
September 5, 2019: Discursos de Odio en Redes Sociales. CLACAI, Lima, Peru.
August 31, 2019: Non-Policy Politics. APSA. Washington DC.
July 12, 2019: Partidos desiguales: reputaci´on, redes pol´ıticas y clientelismo en Am´erica. Keynote presentation. VI Congreso Uruguayo de Ciencia Pol´ıtica.
Montevideo. Uruguay.
June 20, 2019: News by Popular Demand. School of Public Policy and Mana- gement, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
May 27, 2019: Non-Policy Politics in Latin America. LASA 2019, Boston.
May 7, 2019: Fake News and the diffusion of Misinformation. In “Digital Tools and the Future of International Development,” to be held on May 17, 2019 at the JW Marriott in Washington, DC.
April 11, 2019: Fake News by Popular Demand. Facebook, Menlo Park Campus.
California.
April 6, 2019: Author Meets Critics: ”Non-Policy Voters: Richer Voters, Poorer Voters, and the Diversification of Electoral Strategies”. MPSA. Chicago.
April 5, 2019: Big Relational Data: The Path Weighted Regression Model with Applications to Twitter Data. MPSA. Chicago.
March 21, 2019: OECD Global Anti-Corruption & Integrity Forum. Paris. Fran- ce.
March 15, 2019: Fake News by Popular Demand: Reputation, Ideology, and Issue attention in the diffusion of Misinformation. SSLAS. University of Zurich.
Switzerland.
January 23, 2019: Odiar las Redes. Universidad de Concepcion. Chile.
January 18, 2019: Not my Donor: Statistical detection of Campaign Finance Violations. SPSA. Austin.
November 7, 2018: Fake News Trolls. Amnesty International. Buenos Aires.
September 1, 2018: Ties Matter: Selection, Distribution, and Information Net- works in Latin America. APSA. Boston.
May 15, 2018: Sharing the Spoils. University of Virginia.
February 26, 2018: Time to #Protest. University of North Carolina.
November 9, 2017: Time to #Protest. UAM, Cuajimalpa. Mexico City.
October 17, 2017: An assessment of the 2017 Argentine Election, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington DC.
August 22, 2017: Las redes tienen patas cortas: Redes Sociales, Fake News y Pol´ıtica, Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
August 6, 2017: Redes tienen Patas Cortas, C3, Ciudad de Buenos Aires.
August 4, 2017: Redes y Populismo, SAAP, Universidad Di Tella.
February 7, 2017: Twitting #Dilma, Columbia-New School, New York.
February 3, 2017: Argentine Elections 2015, Tulane, New Orleans.
October 20, 2016: Keynote speaker, Chilean National Congress of Political Science.
September 20, 2016: ”When (Electoral) Opportunity Knocks”, UAM, M´exico.
September 1, 2016: ”Bad Bosses”, APSA, Philadelphia.
July 20, 2016: ”Las otras Memorias de la Democracia”, Tucum´an, Argentina.
July 6, 2016: Twitting #PoliticalCrisis, Instituto de C´alculo, UBA.
July 4, 2016: Argentine Elections 2015, UNSAM, Argentina.
May 19, 2016: Argentine Elections 2015, Tulane, New Orleans.
May 10, 2016: Tweeting #Nisman, Universit`a degli Studi di Milano, Italy.
April 29, 2016: Tuiteando #Nisman, Colegio de M´exico, Ciudad de M´exico.
September 29, 2015. Tweeting #Nisman. Book Presentation. Libros del Pasaje.
Buenos Aires.
Tuesday, September 22, 2015. Argentine Elections 2015. DRC, Harvard Univer- sity.
Monday, September 21, 2015. Tweeting #Nisman. Department of Government.
Harvard University.
Wednesday, July 15, 2015. Tweeting #Nisman. UNSAM. Argentina.
Thursday, May 21, 2015. The Valence Gap. UMD, 2015.
Thursday, March 26, 2015. Responsiveness and Responsibility. Kentucky Uni- versity.
Wednesday, February 25 2015. Responsiveness and Responsibility. Duke.
Friday, November 21, 2014. Responsiveness and Responsibility. Miami Univer- sity.
Friday, June 27 2014. Book Presentation. Legislator Success in Fragmented Congresses. UTDT, Argentina.
Thursday, April 28, 2014. Political Institutions in Argentina. Harvard Univer- sity.
Wednesday, April 2, 2014. Ideological Lensing, Information Effects, and the Vote. Columbia University.
Thursday, February 20, 2014. Methodological Innovations in the Study of Elec- tions in Europe and Beyond. Texas A&M. Texas.
Thursday, February 13, 2014. Argentina Today and Tomorrow. Brown Univer- sity.
Thursday, August 10, 2013. Big Data Analysis. Universidade de Brasilia. Brazil.
Tuesday, August 8, 2013. Legislator Success in Fragmented Congresses. UFG.
Brazil
Friday, July 19, 2013. Social Protests, Inequality, and Redistribution. SAAP, Parana. Argentina.
Monday, July 15, 2013. Nacionalizaci´on. Unsam. Argentina.
Thursday, May 23, 2013. Social Protests, Inequality, and Redistribution. LASA.
Washington DC.
Thursday, May 22, 2013. Where is the Party? Niche, Catch-All, and Weakly Institutionalized Parties in Argentina and Chile, LASA, Washington DC.
Thursday, April 11, 2013. The Achilles Heel of Plurality Systems: Geography and Representation in Multi-Party Democracies. MPSA, Chicago.
September 28, 2012. Ideological Lensing, Information Effects, and the Vote.
University of North Caroline, Chapel-Hill.
July 12, 2012. Selecting Clients, Universidad de San Martin. Buenos Aires June 20, 2012. Ideological Lensing, Information Effects, and the Vote, UBA, Buenos Aires.
May 9, 2012. Selecting Clients. Hebrew University of Jersualem.
May 7, 2012. When Parties meet Voters. University of Tel Aviv.
April 28, 2012. Ideological Lensing. Juan March, Madrid.
March 5, 2012. Selecting Clients. Stanford University.
November 2, 2011. The Responsive Legislature. Book presentation. Duke Uni- versity.
August 12, 2011. Selecting Clients. UESP, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
July 30, 2011. Nuevas Metodolog´ıas Cuantitativas de An´alisis Pol´ıtico: An´alisis de Redes Sociales, An´alisis de Supervivencia y Text-mining. SAAP, C´ordoba, Argentina.
July 28, 2011. Desnacionalizaci´on Politica. SAAP, C´ordoba, Argentina.
July 27, 2011. La Nacionalizaci´on de la Colaboraci´on Legislativa. SAAP, C´ordo- ba, Argentina.
April 21, 2011. Argentina and Peronismo. LABS, University of Chicago.
March 31, 2011. The Nationalization of Legislative Collaboration. MPSA, Chica- go.
March 18, 2011. Legislator Success in Fragmented Congresses: Plurality Cartels, Minority Presidents, and Lawmaking in Argentina. IDB.
Discussing Luis Maira’s research ¨U.S. Neo-Conservative Thought: Its Influence in Latin America.”Woodrow Wilson Interantional Center for Scholars. October 29, 2010.
Washington DC. APSA 2010. Calvo, Ernesto and Marcelo Leiras. Party Compe- tition and the Delivery of Clientelistic Goods: Party Equilibrium in Clientelistic and Programmatic Environments.
Washington DC. APSA 2010. Calvo, Ernesto and Marcelo Leiras. Compa˜nero, Correligionario, Coprovinciano: The Denationalization of Legislative Collabo- ration in Argentina.
Washington University, St. Louis. February 26, 2010. Calvo, Ernesto and Aldo Ponce. Meet the Producer: Economic Shocks, Exchange Rate Regimes, and the Politics of Economic Networks.
Princeton University, February 25, 2010. Selecting Clients: Partisan Networks and the Electoral Benefits of Targeted Distribution.
University of Salamanca, Spain, December 2009. Committee Success in Frag- mented Congresses. Presented at the Conference El Poder Legislativo en Am´eri- ca Latina en perspectiva Comparada: desempe˜no y l´ıneas de investigaci´on. Sa- lamanca, December 12.
Washington University. Selecting Clients: Partisan Networks and the Electoral Benefits of Targeted Distribution. Conference on Vote-Maximizing Strategies of Political Parties. St. Louis, November 5-7, 2009.
Yale University, Selecting Clients: Partisan Networks and the Electoral Benefits of Targeted Distribution. November 4, 2009. Comparative Politics Workshop.
Columbia University, Selecting Clients: Partisan Networks and the Electoral Be- nefits of Targeted Distribution. October 21, 2009. Comparative Politics Works- hop.
Calvo, Ernesto and Maria Victoria Murillo. Selecting Clients: Partisan Networks and the Electoral Benefits of Targeted Distribution. Presented at the XXXV Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Toronto, Cana- da, September 3-6, 2009.
Calvo, Ernesto and Aldo Ponce. Meet the Producer: Economic Shocks, Ex- change Rate Regimes, and the Politics of Economic Networks. Presented at the XXXV Annual Meeting of the Political Science Association, Toronto, Canada, September 3-6, 2009.
Calvo, Ernesto and Maria Victoria Murillo. Selecting Clients: Partisan Networks and the Electoral Benefits of Targeted Distribution. Universidad de San Andres.
July, 2009.
June 13, 2009: Committee Success in Fragmented Congresses. Presented at the 2009 Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans.
June 13, 2009: Calvo, Ernesto and Gergely Ujhelyi. A Screening Model of Pa- tronage
University of Virginia, Political Science. March 27, 2009. Patronage Networks and Voting.
University of Houston, Center for Public Policy, March 25. Screening in Patro- nage Spending.
January 8, 2009: Legislative Success in Fragmented Congresses. Presented at the 2009 Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans.
August 28, 2008: When Parties Meet Voters: Partisan Networks and Distribu- tive Expectations in Argentina and Chile. Presented at the 2008 Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 28-31, Boston, Massachusetts August 28, 2008: Legislative Success in Fragmented Congresses. Presented at the 2008 Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 28-31, Boston, Massachusetts
July 4, 2008: Legislative Success in Fragmented Congresses. Instituto Nacional de Investigaci´on y Administraci´on P´ublica (INAP). Argentina.
April 24, 2008: When Parties Meet Voters: Partisan Networks and Distributive Expectations in Argentina and Chile. University of Minnesota, Department of Political Science.
November 29, 2007: Comparing Revealed Preferences in the Argentine and US Congresses Using Cosponsorship and Roll Call Data. Presented in the Con- ference Measures of Legislators’ Policy Preferences and the Dimensionality of Policy Spaces. Washington University, St. Louis.
July 12, 2007: How Many Clients does it take to win and election? Estimating the Size and Structure of Political Networks in Argentina and Chile. Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.
February 2, 2007: Policy Balancing through Legislative Success. Paper presented in the conference Party Politics in Europe at the Transnational Level. Institute for International Integration Studies Trinity College February 2-3, 2007 January 30, 2007: Equilibrium Strategies with Party-Specific Proximity Prefe- rences: A Multilevel Design to Estimate Nash Equilibria in Multiparty Elec- tions. Department of Political Science, Trinity College.
November 19, 2006: Legislative Success, Law Productivity, and Policy Weight in a Presidential Democracy. Columbia University.
May 23, 2006: Split-ticket incentives under alternative e-voting devices. Harvard University.
May 16, 2006: Analyzing Legislative Success in Latin America: The Case of Democratic Argentina. Caltech.
April 21, Split-ticket incentives under alternative e-voting devices. MPSA, Chica- go.
April 13, 2006: The Responsive Legislature. Department of Political Science.
University of Pennsylvania.
March, 16, 2006: Analyzing Legislative Success in Latin America. LASA, San Juan, PR.
December 1, 2005: ”The Competitive Road to Proportional Representation:
Electoral Regime Change under Increasing Party Competition”. CIDE, Mexico City, Mexico.
September 1, 2005: What The Senator Prefers, What the Senator Proposes: A Statistical Model To Estimate the Location Of the Policy Proposal And The Status Quo In Roll Call Votes. With Noah Kaplan. Presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting September 1-4, 2005 Washington DC.
September 1, 2005: September 1, 2005: Partisan Effect of Electoral Reforms in Latin America. Presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, September 1-4, 2005 Washington DC.
August 7, 2005: Book Presentation: La Nueva Politica de Partidos en la Ar- gentina. Discussants: Anibal Fernandez (Ministro de Interior), Edward Gibson (Northwestern University), and Ricardo Kirchbaum (Clarin). Also presented at the Universidad del Litoral, Santa Fe, August 10.
April 115, 2005: The Governor’s Backyard. 62nd Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 15-18, 2004.
October 14, 2004: The Responsive Legislature: Public Opinion and Law Making in a Highly Disciplined Legislature. To be presented at the UNC-DUKE political Economy Workshop.
September 3-4, 2004: The Governor’s Backyard: Measuring the Effect of Sub- national Electoral Reforms in Multiparty Races. Prepared for delivery at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2 - September 5, 2004.
June 27, 2004: The Responsive Legislature. Paper presented at the Political Science Department, Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Argentina.
April 15-17, 2004: The Governor’s Backyard: a Bayesian Model to Estimate Partisan Bias in Multiparty (Subnational) Electoral Reforms. Papered prepared to be presented at the 62nd Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 15-18, 2004.
August 29-31, 2003: Who Delivers? Prepared for delivery at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 30, Philadelphia.
August 7-8, 2003. International Conference on State Legislatures, Belo Hori- zonte. Brazil.
March 20-21, 2003. Rethinking Dual Transitions: Argentine Politics in the 1990s.
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Harvard University.
February 19 , 2003. Electoral Reforms in Latin America. Yale, New Haven.
January 7-11, 2003. Discussant for the forum Encounter with the Authors.
Acemoglu and Robinson ”Political Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship”, Center for Basic Research in Social Science, Harvard University.
June 17, 18, 2002. Places and Relationships in Ecological Inference: Uncovering Contextual Effects through a Geographically Weighted Autoregressive model.
Conference Recent advances on ecological inference”. Boston. CBRSS, Harvard University.
September 8, 2001. Institutional Gamblers: Majoritarian Representation, Elec- toral Uncertainty, and The Coalitional Costs of Mexico’s Hybrid Electoral Sys- tem. Paper presented at the XXIII Latin American Studies Association, Wa- shington, September 6-8.
June 20, 2001. Paper presented at the Foro sobre Reforma Pol´ıtica del Distrito Federal. Palacio de Miner´ıa, Ciudad de M´exico. 20, 21 y 22 de junio, 2001.
M´exico.
June 6, 2001: The Business of Trade Reforms: Business Associations and Trade Liberalization in Mexico and Argentina. Paper Presented at the conference Representation and Democratic Politics in Latin America. Buenos Aires, June 7-8, 2001. Universidad de San Andr´es. Argentina.
May 28, 2001: The New Alliance. Paper presented at the Center for Policy Studies. South-Africa. Part of the project Democracy and Inequality in the XXIst Century. South-Africa.
November 7, 2000: Disconcerted Industrialists, University of Arizona, Depart- ment of Political Science. USA.
November 1, 2000: Reforma Pol´ıtica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, UBA. Argentina.
September 1999: Promoting Power: From Import Protection to Export Promo- tion in Latin America. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA). September 2-5. Atlanta. USA.
July 1999: The Transformations of Labor Markets in Latin America: Collective Bargaining and Industrial Wage Inequality, UTDT, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
June 1999: Reallocative Federalism: Overrepresentation and Public Spending in the Western Hemisphere, With Edward Gibson and Tulia Falleti. Prepared for the Conference on ”Federalism, Democracy, and Public PolicyC¸ entro de Investigaci´on y Docencia Econ´omica, Mexico City, June 14-15. Cide. M´exico.
April 1998-1997: Electoral Coalitions and Market Reforms: Evidence From Ar- gentina. In collaboration with Edward Gibson. Presented at the Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Guadalajara. Also presented in professional meetings and conferences in USA, England, Argentina, and Mexico.
April 1997: Presentation of the paper Disconcerted Industrialists: The Mexican Experience, Presented at the Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Guadalajara, Mexico, April 1997.
February 1997: Presentation of the paper Disconcerted Industrialists: Research Agenda; Workshop of Comparative Politics, Northwestern University.
July 1996: Presentation of the paper Political Strategies by Economic Actors:
Industrial Restructuring in the 90s. Maestr´ıa en Ciencia Pol´ıtica de la Univer- sidad de Buenos Aires.
July 1990: De Alfons´ın a Menem: una Crisis de Racionalidad, presented to the II National Congress of Graduate Students and Students of Political Science, Bs. As. Argentina.
