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Assistant Professor of Poltical Science. His primary interests involve Latin American politics, with emphases on executive-legislative relations, electoral systems and political parties. He is currently involved in projects which focus on Latin American legislatures, the role of domestic politics in the NAFTA negotiations, Mexican fiscal federalism, and comparisons of the effects of differing electoral systems. He has also published works on incumbency advantage of U.S. state legislators which appeared in Legislative Studies Quarterly. He conducted year-long field research in Uruguay and also studied and taught for a year at the Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas in Mexico.