Gretchen Helmke
Introduction

Curriculum Vitae

Research

Teaching
Research
Books
Courts Under Constraints: Judges, Generals, and Presidents in Argentina. (2005) New York: Cambridge University Press.
Informal Institutions and Democracy: Lessons from Latin America. (2006) (Edited with Steven Levitsky) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Selected Articles and Papers
"The Logic of Strategic Defection: Judicial Decision- Making in Argentina Under Dictatorship and Democracy." (2002) American Political Science Review 96(2): 291-30.
"Checks and Balances by Other Means: Strategic Defection and the 'Re-Reelection' Controversy in Argentina." (2003) Comparative Politics 35(2): 213-228.
"Informal Institutions and Comparative Politics: A Research Agenda." (2004) (with Steven Levitsky) Perspectives on Politics 2(4):725-739.
"Modeling Motivations: A New Technique for Inferring Judicial Goals." (2006) (with Mitchell Sanders) Journal of Politics 68(4): 867-878.
"The Comparative Study of Split-Ticket Voting" (2008) (with Barry C. Burden) Electoral Studies 28:1-7.
"Ticket-Splitting as Electoral Insurance: The Mexico 2000 Elections." (2008) Electoral Studies 28: 70-78.
"Regimes and the Rule of Law: Judicial Independence in Comparative Perspective" (2009) (with Frances Rosenbluth) Annual Review of Political Science 12: 345-366.
"The Origins of Institutional Crises in Latin America" (2009) [AJPS, Revise and Resubmit]
"Endogenous Institutions: The Origins of Compulsory Voting Laws" (2009) (with Bonnie Meguid) [Under Review]
"Inequality Under Democracy: Explaining "The Left Decade" in Latin America" (with Alex Debs) [Under Review]
"Courting Conflict: A Logic of Risky Judicial Decisions in Latin America" (with Jeffrey Staton)
Other Work in Progress
Institutions on the Edge: The Origins and Consequences of Institutional Instability in Latin America [Book Manuscript, under contract, Cambridge University Press]
"Courts in Latin America" [Book Manuscript, edited with Julio Ríos-Figueroa]
"Collaborative Research: A Cross-National Study of Judicial Institutionalization and Influence." NSF Pilot Project (with Clifford Carrubba, Matt Gabel, Andrew Martin, and Jeffrey Staton)