Mitchell A. Seligson

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#1616

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Political Science

Mitchell A. Seligson's Degrees

PhD Political Science University of California, Berkeley
Masters Political Science University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Political Science University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Mitchell A. Seligson is the Centennial Professor of Political Science and Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University. He founded and is Senior Advisor to the Latin American Public Opinion Project , which conducts the AmericasBarometer surveys that currently cover 27 countries in the Americas. Seligson has published many books and papers on political science topics. He was elected to membership in the General Assembly of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights in 2011.

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Mitchell A. Seligson's Published Works

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The Impact of Corruption on Regime Legitimacy: A Comparative Study of Four Latin American Countries (2002) (892)
Inequality and Insurgency (1987) (547)
Personality and Civic Engagement: An Integrative Framework for the Study of Trait Effects on Political Behavior (2010) (535)
Civic Culture and Democracy: The Question of Causal Relationships (1994) (509)
Meaning and Measurement in Cross-National Research on Satisfaction with Democracy (2001) (376)
The Measurement and Impact of Corruption Victimization: Survey Evidence from Latin America (2006) (316)
The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America: Political Support and Democracy in Eight Nations (2009) (288)
The Effects of U.S. Foreign Assistance on Democracy Building, 1990–2003 (2007) (286)
Diffuse Political Support and Antisystem Political Behavior: A Comparative Analysis (1982) (197)
The Democracy Barometers (Part I): The Rise of Populism and the Left in Latin America (2007) (170)
Land Reform and Democratic Development (1988) (119)
Economic Crisis, Incumbent Performance and Regime Support: A Comparison of Longitudinal Data from West Germany and Costa Rica (1989) (109)
Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) (2011) (109)
Authoritarians and democrats : regime transition in Latin America (1988) (107)
Trust, Efficacy and Modes of Political Participation: A Study of Costa Rican Peasants (1980) (102)
Land Inequality and Political Violence (1989) (101)
Development and Underdevelopment: The Political Economy of Global Inequality (2008) (98)
Pitfalls of power to the people: Decentralization, local government performance, and system support in Bolivia (2003) (95)
Peasants of Costa Rica and the Development of Agrarian Capitalism (1980) (92)
Trouble in Paradise?: The Erosion of System Support in Costa Rica, 1978–1999 (2002) (89)
Thirty Years of Transformation in the Agrarian Structure of El Salvador, 1961–1991 (1995) (83)
Foreign Policy Belief Systems in Comparative Perspective: The United States and Costa Rica (1993) (79)
Democratic Stability and Economic Crisis: Costa Rica, 1978–1983 (1987) (78)
Issues in democratic consolidation: The New South American democracies in comparative perspective (1994) (77)
The Participatory Personality: Evidence from Latin America (2010) (76)
Political Culture and Regime Type: Evidence from Nicaragua and Costa Rica (1993) (72)
Political Support, Political Skepticism, and Political Stability in New Democracies (2002) (66)
Inequality and Political Violence Revisited (1993) (65)
Political Legitimacy and Participation in Costa Rica: Evidence of Arena Shopping (2005) (64)
Political participation in Latin America (1978) (63)
Low-Intensity Warfare, High-Intensity Death: The Demographic Impact of The Wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua (1996) (54)
Trends in Democracy Assistance: What has the United States Been Doing? (2008) (53)
Elections and Democracy in Central America (1989) (52)
Popular Support for Regional Economic Integration in Latin America (1999) (51)
Elections and democracy in Central America, revisited (1996) (48)
Agrarian Inequality and the Theory of Peasant Rebellion (1996) (46)
On the measurement of diffuse support: Some evidence from Mexico (1983) (40)
The Political Culture of Democracy in Jamaica: 2006 (2007) (40)
Maquiladoras and migration : workers in the Mexico-United States border industrialization program (1981) (39)
Determinants of Perceived Skin-Color Discrimination in Latin America (2014) (39)
Toward an Empirical Theory of Tolerance (1983) (35)
The Emergence of Insurgency in El Salvador: Ideology and Political Will (1999) (35)
EDUCATION, PARTICIPATION, AND SUPPORT FOR DEMOCRATIC NORMS (1987) (34)
Poverty, Participation, and Democracy: Inequality and Democracy in Latin America: Individual and Contextual Effects of Wealth on Political Participation (2006) (34)
Economic Shocks and Democratic Vulnerabilities in Latin America and the Caribbean (2010) (33)
The Political Culture of Authoritarianism in Mexico: A Reexamination (1984) (32)
Economic Crisis and Democracy in Latin America (2009) (29)
Exchange: The Vain Hope for "Correct" Timing (2007) (26)
Strategy, Careers, and Judicial Decisions: Lessons from the Bolivian Courts (2006) (25)
The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America: Democracy on Ice: The Multiple Challenges of Guatemala's Peace Process (2005) (25)
Improving the Quality of Survey Research in Democratizing Countries (2005) (23)
Corruption and Democratization: What Is To Be Done? (2001) (23)
Peasants As Activists (1979) (23)
Democratic Stability and Economic Crisis (1987) (22)
Land Inequality: A Comparison of Census Data and Property Records in Twentieth-Century Southern Costa Rica (1994) (19)
Improving Democracy Assistance: Building Knowledge Through Evaluations and Research: A National Research Council Report (2008) (18)
Reformism and Radicalism among Peasants: An Empirical Test of Paige's Agrarian Revolution (1994) (18)
Toward A Model of Democratic Stability: Political Culture in Central America (2014) (18)
Agrarian Policies in Dependent Societies: Costa Rica (1977) (18)
Arabs in Israel: Political Tolerance and Ethnic Conflict (1983) (17)
Electoral Trust in Latin America (2014) (17)
Prestige Among Peasants: A Multidimensional Analysis of Preference Data (1977) (14)
Human Subjects Protection and Large-N Research: When Exempt is Non-Exempt and Research is Non-Research (2008) (13)
The Gap Between Rich And Poor: Contending Perspectives On The Political Economy Of Development (1984) (12)
Trouble in Central America: Crime, Hard Times, and Discontent (2010) (11)
The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America: The Sky Is Not Falling: The Puzzle Solved (2009) (10)
A Problem-Solving Approach to Measuring Political Efficacy. (1980) (9)
Political Participation in Latin America: An Agenda for Research (1976) (9)
Maquiladoras and Migration. (1984) (9)
Public policies in conflict: land reform and family planning in Costa Rica. (1979) (8)
Going for Baroque? Ways of Thinking about Democracy in Central America@@@Elections and Democracy in Central America@@@Repression and Resistance: The Struggle for Democracy in Central America (1991) (8)
Small Business Development in El Salvador: The Impact of Remittances (2019) (7)
Support for Coups in the Americas: Mass Norms and Democratization (2018) (7)
Social Capital and Economic Crisis in the United States (7)
The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America: The Legitimacy Puzzles (2009) (7)
The Gap between Rich and Poor (2019) (7)
Transactions And Community Formation: Fifteen Years Of Growth And Stagnation In Central America (1972) (6)
The “Dual Society” Thesis in Latin America: A Reexamination of the Costa Rican Case (1972) (6)
Politics and the poor (1979) (6)
The Honduran "Catharsis" 1 (2010) (5)
Improving the Quality and Lowering Costs of Household Survey Data Using Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs). An Application for Costa Rica (2005) (5)
isiLimits to Costa Rican Heterodoxy: What Has Changed in "Paradise"? (2005) (5)
Economic Evaluations and Support for Free Trade in Latin America and the Caribbean (2015) (4)
Public Opinion Research in Latin America (2012) (3)
Data Collection in Cross-national and International Surveys (2018) (3)
Language and Political Behavior: A Methodology for Utilizing the Linguistic Component of Socioeconomic Status (1978) (3)
Baseline survey of the Honduran small farmer titling project : descriptive analysis of the 1985 sample (1987) (3)
When Education Doesn’t Matter, Are Elites Still More Tolerant than Masses? A Natural Experiment in Bolivia (2011) (3)
Is Democracy Exportable?: Exporting Democracy: Does It Work? (2009) (3)
Education, the wealth of nations, and political tolerance toward homosexuals: a multilevel analysis of 26 countries in the Americas (2019) (3)
Institutional legitimacy in Central America: 2004–10 (2013) (3)
Improving the Quality of Survey Data Using CAPI Systems in Developing Countries (2018) (3)
Reported threats: The routinization of violence in Central America (2016) (3)
LEGITIMACY AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN EIGHT LATIN AMERICAN NATIONS (2009) (3)
Demanding Democracy: Reform and Reaction in Costa Rica and Guatemala, 1870s–1950s . Deborah J. Yashar. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997. 319p. $49.50 cloth, $17.95 paper. (1998) (2)
Political and Interpersonal Trust among Peasants: A Reevaluation. (1979) (2)
The phonological correlates of social stratification in the Spanish of Costa Rica (1978) (2)
Development and Underdevelopment (2017) (2)
12 – Agrarian Reform in Costa Rica, 1942–1976: The Evolution of a Program* (1978) (2)
Corruption in Latin America (2015) (1)
AmericasBarometer 2012 Round Draws on Lessons from 2010 Surveys (2012) (1)
Applying Quantitative Techniques to Quantitative History: Poverty and Federal Expenditures in Mexico (1973) (1)
Variables Used in the Analyses (2009) (1)
AmericasBarometer Insights : 2014 Number 103 What Perpetuates Child Servitude ? Public Opinion on Children ʹ s Domestic Labor in Haiti (2014) (1)
AmericasBarometer Insights : 2011 Number 55 Political Knowledge and Religious Channels of Socialization in Latin America (2011) (1)
Legitimacy and Political Participation (2009) (1)
The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America: The Sources of Political Legitimacy (2009) (1)
Watering , not Transplanting : The Case for Democracy Assistance (1)
Challenging the Pluralistic Intolerance Thesis (1984) (1)
The Role of the Police in Crime-Prevention in Central America (2012) (1)
The “Kling Thesis”: An Early Effort at Systematic Comparative Politics (2008) (1)
Confidence in the Criminal Justice System in the Americas (2011) (1)
Authority and Inequality Under Capitalism and Socialism: USA, USSR, and China (1987) (1)
How Bad is Bad?: Dispositional Negativity in Political Judgment (2021) (1)
Responsible for Providing Health Care Services in Latin America ? (2010) (1)
The Dual Gaps: An Overview of Theory and Research (2019) (1)
Political Support Alienation Scale 1982 (1995) (1)
Southern Political Science Association The Impact of Corruption on Regime Legitimacy : A Comparative Study of Four Latin American Countries (2007) (0)
Inequality in a Global Perspective: Directions for Further Research (2019) (0)
Metropolitan Latin America: The Challenge and the Response (Latin American Urban Research, Vol. 6). Edited by Cornelius Wayne A. and Kemper Robert V.. (Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage, 1978. Pp. 346. $18.50, cloth; $7.95, paper.) (1979) (0)
System-level Performance Measures (2009) (0)
The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America: Legitimacy and Negative Political Capital (2009) (0)
AmericasBarometer Insights : 2014 Number 102 State Capacity and Democratic Governance in Latin America : A Survey Data ‐ Based Approach to Measurement and Assessment (2014) (0)
The New Authoritarianism in Latin America. Edited by Collier David. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1979. Pp. 456. $25.00, cloth; $5.95, paper.) (1980) (0)
Citizen and state (1978) (0)
The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America: The Structure of Legitimacy (2009) (0)
Democratic Values and Behaviors in Peru : A Reanalysis of a Study Conducted by Apoyo (2005) (0)
National Image Scale 1993 (1995) (0)
Method of Constructing the Legitimacy Factor Scores (2009) (0)
Nonsampling Errors, Sampling Errors, and Design Effects for the Eight-Nation Survey (2009) (0)
The Impact of Personality on Response Patterns on Public Opinion Surveys (2009) (0)
Where the Debate between Development and Environmentalism Gets Personal : Public Opinion , Vulnerability , and Living with Extraction on Ecuador ’ s Oil Frontier (2016) (0)
THEORY OF PEASANT REBELLION (2016) (0)
Generations of Settlers: Rural Households and Markets on the Costa Rican Frontier, 1850-1935. By Mario Samper. [DellPlain Latin American Studies, No. 26.] (Boulder: Westview Press, Inc., 1990. Pp. xvii, 286. Tables. Figures. Bibliography. Index. $32.50.) (1992) (0)
Countries in the Study (2009) (0)
The Participatory Personality (2008) (0)
Report to USAID Paraguay : 1996 Baseline Study of Democracy Starategic Objective (2003) (0)
b***fros pnfin In demorm*ia €n (2008) (0)
Lecture: Latin American Public Opinion Project Symposium (2007) (0)
The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America: Preface (2009) (0)
AmericasBarometer report examines democratic vulnerabilities in Honduras (2009) (0)
Chapter Nine. Limits to Costa Rican Heterodoxy: What Has Changed in “Paradise”? (2020) (0)
Institutions and the Mass Public : A New Look at Bolivian Democracy (2004) (0)
C. NEAL TATE (2011) (0)
Power, Politics and Progress: Social Change in Rural Peru . By Whyte William Foote and Alberti Giorgio. (New York and Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1976. Pp. xxii + 307. $15.00.) (1978) (0)
The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America: Legitimacy and Democratic Values (2009) (0)
Who Is Willing to Pay the Price of Equity? a Report on Public Opinion in Colombia (2011) (0)
Edward N. Muller (1995) (0)
Israel–Latin American Relations (1980) (0)
Old Wine in New Bottles: The Utility of Data Reanalysis in the Social Sciences (1972) (0)
Communities of Grain: Rural Rebellion in Comparative Perspective. By Victor V. Magagna. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991. 277p. $42.50. (1992) (0)
Enduring problems of land utilization. (1980) (0)
The skin color palette provides a unique perspective on race in 23 countries of the Americas (2012) (0)
The Right to Rule: How States Win and Lose Legitimacy . By Bruce Gilley. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. 336p. $34.50. (2010) (0)
The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America: Supporting Data and Analyses for Chapters 1–5 (2009) (0)
How Bad is Bad?: Dispositional Negativity in Political Judgment (2021) (0)
AmericasBarometer Insights : 2012 Number 77 Explaining Support for Interethnic Marriage in Four Countries (2012) (0)
Costa Rica (2019) (0)

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