Karen Remmer, Faculty

Office Location:	401 Perkins Library, Box 90204
Office Phone:	(919) 660-4309
Email Address:

Education:

PhD	University of Chicago	1974
M.A.	University of Chicago	1968
Additional Training	London School of Economics and Political Science and Harvard University, 1967	1968
B.A	Wellesley College	1966

Specialties:

Comparative Politics
Political Economy
Political Institutions

Research Interests: Latin America, Democratization, Economic Development, Military Governance

Areas of Interest:

Comparative politics
Comparative Political Economy
Latin American Politics
Comparative Democratic Development
Authoritarian Politics

Current Ph.D. Students  

• Sandra Ley Gutierrez  
• Sean Zeigler  
• Sinziana Popa-Dorobantu  
• Popa-Dorobantu Sinziana  
• Cristina Corduneaunu-Huci  
• Jan Pierskalla  
• Gregory S. Schober  
• Jorge Bravo  
• Matthew Singer  
• Sinziana Popa-Dorobantu  
• Sinziana Popa-Dorobantu  
• Marco Fernandez  
• Lorena Becerra  

Recent Publications

1. K. Remmer, The Rise of Leftist-Populist Governance in Latin America, Comparative Political Studies (2011)
2. K. Remmer, "The Impact of Political Scale on Turnout, Comparative Political Studies (2010)
3. K. Remmer, “Why Do Small States have Big Governments?", European Political Science Review (2010)
4. K. Remmer, "The Politics of Institutional Change: Electoral Reform in Latin America, 1978-2002", Party Politics, vol. 14 (January, 2008), pp. 5-30
5. K. Remmer, The Political Economy of Patronage Expenditure Patterns in the Argentine Provinces, 1983-2003, Journal of Politics (May, 2007)  [abs]