Kurt Gerhard Weyland

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Kurt Gerhard Weyland'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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Clarifying a contested concept: Populism in the study of Latin American politics (2001) (1016)
Theories of Policy Diffusion: Lessons from Latin American Pension Reform (2005) (515)
Bounded Rationality and Policy Diffusion: Social Sector Reform in Latin America (2007) (341)
Neoliberal Populism in Latin America and Eastern Europe (1999) (325)
Neopopulism and neoliberalism in Latin America: Unexpected affinities (1996) (303)
The Politics of Market Reform in Fragile Democracies (2002) (265)
Politics in Developing Countries: Comparing Experiences With Democracy (1990) (264)
Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards (2005) (242)
Democracy without equity : failures of reform in Brazil (1996) (241)
Latin America’s Authoritarian Drift: The Threat from the Populist Left (2013) (229)
The Politics of Corruption in Latin America (1998) (218)
The Rise of Latin America's Two Lefts: Insights from Rentier State Theory (2009) (204)
Neoliberalism and Democracy in Latin America: A Mixed Record (2004) (190)
Leftist Governments in Latin America: Successes and Shortcomings (2010) (188)
Risk Taking in Latin American Economic Restructuring: Lessons from Prospect Theory (1996) (179)
The Arab Spring: Why the Surprising Similarities with the Revolutionary Wave of 1848? (2012) (176)
Toward a New Theory of Institutional Change (2008) (141)
The Diffusion of Revolution: ‘1848’ in Europe and Latin America (2009) (123)
Swallowing the Bitter Pill (1998) (121)
Limitations of rational-choice institutionalism for the study of Latin American politics (2002) (116)
The Diffusion of Regime Contention in European Democratization, 1830-1940 (2010) (112)
Neopopulism and Neoliberalism in Latin America: how much affinity? (2003) (97)
Social movements and the State: The Politics of health reform in Brazil (1995) (92)
The Rise and Fall of President Collar and its Impact on Brazilian Democracy (1993) (91)
Economic Voting Reconsidered (2003) (90)
LATIN AMERICAN NEOPOPULISM (2003) (84)
“Growth With Equity” in Chile's New Democracy? (1997) (72)
Bounded Rationality and Policy Diffusion (2006) (70)
A Paradox of Success? Determinants of Political Support for President Fujimori (2000) (69)
Learning from foreign models in Latin American policy reform (2004) (60)
The Political Fate of Market Reform in Latin America, Africa, and Eastern Europe (1998) (59)
Peasants or Bankers in Venezuela? Presidential Popularity and Economic Reform Approval, 1989-1993 (1998) (55)
Assessing Latin American Neoliberalism: Introduction to a Debate (2004) (54)
Obstacles to social reform in Brazil's new democracy (1996) (51)
Populism’s Threat to Democracy: Comparative Lessons for the United States (2020) (44)
Leftist Governments in Latin America: The Policies and Performance of the Contestatory and Moderate Left (2010) (42)
Economic Policy in Chile's New Democracy (1999) (42)
The Diffusion of Innovations: How Cognitive Heuristics Shaped Bolivia's Pension Reform (2005) (40)
The Brazilian State in the New Democracy (1998) (39)
Autocratic diffusion and cooperation: the impact of interests vs. ideology (2017) (39)
The growing sustainability of Brazil’s low-quality democracy (2005) (38)
Crafting Counterrevolution: How Reactionaries Learned to Combat Change in 1848 (2016) (37)
From Leviathan to Gulliver? The decline of the developmental state in Brazil (1998) (35)
Response to Barbara Wejnert’s review of Making Waves: Democratic Contention in Europe and Latin America since the Revolutions of 1848 (2014) (28)
Institutional Change in Latin America: External Models and their Unintended Consequences (2009) (26)
Latin America's Four Political Models (1995) (24)
Leftist Governments in Latin America: The Performance of Leftist Governments in Latin America: Conceptual and Theoretical Issues (2010) (22)
Gender and Populism in Latin America: Passionate Politics (2010) (22)
Populism as a Political Strategy: An Approach’s Enduring — and Increasing — Advantages (2021) (21)
Will Chavez Lose His Luster (2001) (20)
The Political Economy of Market Reform: A Revival of Structuralism? (2007) (20)
Patterns of Diffusion: Comparing Democratic and Autocratic Waves (2016) (19)
How Much Political Power do Economic Forces Have? Conflicts Over Social Insurance Reform in Brazil (1996) (14)
Revolution and Reaction (2019) (14)
Threats to Latin America's Market Model? (2004) (12)
Populism and authoritarianism (2018) (11)
Reform and Corruption in Latin America (2006) (11)
EXTERNAL PRESSURES AND INTERNATIONAL NORMS IN LATIN AMERICAN PENSION REFORM (2006) (9)
Realism under Hegemony: Theorizing the Rise of Brazil (2016) (9)
Cultural Backlash: Trump. Brexit, and Authoritarian Populism, written by Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart (2019) (9)
Democracy Without Equity (1996) (9)
ADRIAN J. PEARCE (ed.): Evo Morales and the Movimiento al Socialismo in Bolivia: The First Term in Context, 2006-2010. London: Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London, 2011. (2017) (8)
How to Assess Plagiarism of Ideas? (2007) (7)
Leftist Governments in Latin America: Bibliography (2010) (7)
Diffusion Waves in European Democratization: The Impact of Organizational Development (2012) (6)
Fascism’s missionary ideology and the autocratic wave of the interwar years (2017) (6)
Politician's Dilemma: Building State Capacity in Latin America . By Barbara Geddes. (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994. Pp. xiii, 246. $35.00.) (1995) (6)
Bounded Rationality in Latin-American Pension Reform (2008) (5)
Diffusion of Democracy: The Past and Future of Global Democracy. By Barbara Wejnert. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 363p. $99.00. (2015) (5)
Why Some Democracy Protests Do Diffuse (2019) (5)
Dictators and democrats: masses, elites, and regime change, by Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman (2017) (4)
Limits of US Influence: The Promotion of Regime Change in Latin America (2018) (4)
The Politics of Freeing Markets in Latin America: Chile, Argentina, and Mexico. JUDITH A. TEICHMAN: Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. (2014) (4)
1 The Performance of Leftist Governments in Latin America Conceptual and Theoretical Issues (2010) (4)
The Logic of the Tenure Decision: In Dubio Contra “Reum” (2011) (4)
Why US Democracy Will Survive Trump (2019) (2)
Assault on Democracy (2021) (2)
The End of the Peasantry: The Rural Labor Movement in Northeast Brazil, 1961–1988 . By Anthony W. Pereira. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997. 280p. $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. (1998) (2)
The Americanist Bias in Organization Theory (1995) (2)
Authoritarian Diffusion and Cooperation: Interests vs. Ideology (2018) (2)
Donald Trump’s Populism (2019) (2)
How Populism Corrodes Latin American Parties (2021) (2)
: Bounded Rationality and Policy (2007) (1)
Paper for panel on "Diffusion Dynamics in Democratization Processes" 105 th Annual Meeting, American Political Science Association (2009) (1)
Introduction to a Debate (2004) (1)
Assessing the Risk of Democratic Reversal in the United States: A Reply to Kurt Weyland (2021) (1)
Electing Chávez: The Business of Anti-Neoliberal Politics in Venezuela . By Leslie C. Gates. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010. 216p. $24.95. (2011) (1)
The Logic of the Promotion Decision: In Dubio Pro Patientia (2015) (1)
Making Waves: Crosscurrents of the Third Wave: Interorganizational Competition and Negotiation in Chile (2014) (1)
Venezuela's Worsening Political Crisis (2003) (1)
Politicians and Economic Reform in New Democracies: Argentina and the Philippines in the 1990s. KENT EATON: University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. (2014) (1)
The Arab Uprisings Explained: New Contentious Politics in the Middle East. Edited by Marc Lynch. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. 352p. $90.00 cloth, $30.00 paper. (2016) (1)
The Diffusion of Authoritarian Rule: An Analysis of Causal Mechanisms (2013) (1)
Neoliberalism and Democracy (2016) (0)
The Brazilian Voter: Mass Politics in Democratic Transition, 1974-1986 . By Kurt von Mettenheim. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995. Pp. 295. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $49.95.) (1996) (0)
The Emulation, Preemption, and Prevention of External Impluses: Multiple Facets of Diffusion? (2010) (0)
Constitutional Engineering in Brazil: The Politics of Federalism and Decentralization . By Celina Souza. New York: St. Martin's, 1997. 211p. $65.00. (1999) (0)
Javier Santiso, Latin America’s Political Economy of the Possible: Beyond Good Revolutionaries and Free-Marketeers. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006. Figures, notes, bibliography, index, 272 pp.; hardcover $27.95, paperback $14.95. (2007) (0)
Firmer Roots of Ethnicity and Nationalism? New Historical Research and Its Implications for Political Science (2021) (0)
Chapter 3. External Pressures and International Norms in Pension Reform (2009) (0)
Distributive Politics and Social Protection in the 21st Century (2004) (0)
Ambition vs. Success in Latin America's Left (2007) (0)
Latin America's Political Economy of the Possible: Beyond Good Revolutionaries and Free-Marketeers (review) (2007) (0)
Peter H. Smith, Democracy in Latin America: Political Change in Comparative Perspective (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. xiv+380, $67.00, $25.00 pb; £13.99 pb. (2006) (0)
The German Exception: Emulating Full-Scale Fascism (2021) (0)
The Tsunami of 1848: Precipitous Diffusion in Inchoate Societies (2014) (0)
Grosh, Margaret E., "Administering Targeted Social Programmes in Latin America: From Platitudes to Practice" (Book Review) (1997) (0)
Challenging Neoliberalism in Latin Americaby Eduardo Silva (2011) (0)
Radical Right-Wing Populist Parties in Western Europe: Into the Mainstream?, edited by Akkerman, Tjitske, Sarah L. de Lange, and Matthijs RooduijnAfter Europe, written by Ivan Krastev (2019) (0)
Carol Graham and Eduardo Lora, eds., Paradox and Perception: Measuring Quality of Life in Latin America. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2009. Figures, tables, index, 271 pp.; paperback $27.95, e-book $27.95. (2011) (0)
Diffusion Dynamics in European and Latin American Democratization (2009) (0)
Chapter 6. Cognitive Heuristics in the Diffusion of Health Reform (2009) (0)
Perderá Chávez su fulgor (2002) (0)
A Response to Ugarte (2011) (0)
existing literature rife with rumors and misinformation, but Fair’s account is credible precisely because she stays close to LeT’s own documentation. Her overall verdict of the Pakistani state behavior in this domain is harsh but persua- (2021) (0)
References and Interviews (2009) (0)
Making Waves: Theoretical Conclusions and Comparative Perspectives (2014) (0)
Chapter 1. The Puzzle of Policy Diffusion (2009) (0)
Promotion Letters: Current Problems and a Reform Proposal (2019) (0)
Chapter 2. Toward a New Theory of Policy Diffusion (2009) (0)
The Workers’ Party and Democratization in Brazil . By Margaret E. Keck. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 315. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $37.00.) (1995) (0)
Why US Democracy Trumps Populism: Comparative Lessons Reconsidered (2021) (0)
Policy Reform in Weak States: The Challenge of Subsidy Cuts in Latin America (2021) (0)
Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy by MichaelAlbertus and VictorMenaldo. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2018. 322 pp. Paper, $29.99. (2019) (0)
R. Holzmann, M. Orenstein, M. Rutkowski (Eds.), Pension Reform in Europe: Process and Progress, World Bank, Washington, DC, 2003, 202 pp., US$ 25.00, paper, ISBN 0-8213-5385-6. (2004) (0)
Making Waves: Organizational Development and Changing Modes of Democratic Contention (2014) (0)
Making Waves: Introduction: Puzzling Trends in Waves of Contention (2014) (0)
Chapter 7. Bounded Rationality in the Era of Globalization (2009) (0)
President Calderón's First 100 Days in Office: Trends and Directions (2007) (0)
Broken Promises? The Argentine Crisis and Argentine Democracy ed. by Edward Epstein, David Pion-Berlin (review) (2019) (0)
Werner Baer and Joseph L. Love (eds.), Liberalization and its Consequences: A Comparative Perspective on Latin America and Eastern Europe (Cheltenham and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2000), pp. x+323, £65.00, hb. (2003) (0)
Making Waves: The Slow but Potent “Third Wave” in South America: The Prevalence of Negotiated Transitions (2014) (0)
THE EMULATION, PREEMPTION, AND PREVENTION OF EXTERNAL IMPULSES: MULTIPLE FACETS OF DIFFUSION? [Introduction of Making Waves: The Diffusion of Regime Contention in Europe and Latin America (2010) (0)
Making Waves: Bibliography (2014) (0)
The Delayed Wave of 1917–1919: Organizational Leaders as Guides of Targeted Contention (2014) (0)
Too Many Cooks May Spoil the First Book—and Jeopardize the Author’s Career: Potential Pitfalls of Book Workshops (2020) (0)
Mandates and Democracies: Neoliberalism by Surprise in Latin America. By Susan C. Stokes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 226p. $55.00 cloth, $20.00 paper (2003) (0)
Making Waves: A New Theory of Political Diffusion: Cognitive Heuristics and Organizational Development (2014) (0)
State-Sponsored Activism: Bureaucrats and Social Movements in Democratic Brazil. By Jessica Rich. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 252p. $105.00 cloth. (2021) (0)
Demanding Democracy: Reform and Reaction in Costa Rica and Guatemala, 1870s–1950s Deborah J. Yashar Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997, pp. xix, 319 (1998) (0)
Notes on Contributors (2003) (0)
Reseña de "The Politics of Market Reform in Fragile Democracies. Argentina, Brazil, Peru and Venezuela" de Claudia Maldonado (2004) (0)
The Populist Challenge to U.S. Democracy: Renewing American Political Development's Comparative Perspective (2022) (0)
Books Received (1964) (0)
Constraining Dictatorship: From Personalized Rule to Institutionalized Regimes by AnneMeng. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2020. 278 pp. $39.99. (2021) (0)
Book review: The Global Rise of Populism: Performance, Political Style, and Representation (2018) (0)
Chapter 4. Cognitive Heuristics in the Diffusion of Pension Reform (2009) (0)
Rethinking Venezuelan Politics: Class, Conflict, and the Chávez Phenomenonby Steve Ellner (2008) (0)
Comparative Political Studies (2003) (0)
Comparative Political Studies (2003) (0)
Development, Democracy, and Inequity: New Contributions on the Brazilian Political Economy (1996) (0)
Structural Reform, Democratic Governance, and Institutional Design in Latin America By: Fabrice Lehoucq Lehoucq, Fabrice. “Structural Reform, Democratic Governance, and Institutional Design in Latin America,” Comparative Politics, Vol. 39, No. 2 (January 2007): 229-48. Made available courtesy of The (2009) (0)

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