John Polga-Hecimovich
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Books

  • 2010. Políticos, militares y ciudadanos: un análisis de las caídas presidenciales en Ecuador (1997-2005), Quito: Corporación Editora Nacional-Abya Yala

Journal articles

  • 2022. "Coaliciones reformistas y tipo de régimen: Una teoría del cambio electoral aplicado al Ecuador", Revista Ecuatoriana de Ciencia Política, 1(1): 81-100.
  • 2022. "Venezuelan Regional Elections, Democratic Backsliding, and Autocratization in the 2010s", Regional and Federal Studies, 32(4): 437-458.
  • 2021. "The Bureaucratic Perils of Presidentialism: Political Impediments to Good Governance in Latin America." Korean Journal of Policy Studies 36 (4):1-14.
  • 2021. "Ecuador’s Return to the Past" (with Francisco Sánchez). Journal of Democracy, 32(3): 5-18.
  • 2021. "Student Attitudes towards Campus Diversity at the United States Naval Academy: Evidence from Conjoint Survey Experiments" (with John C. Carey and Yusaku Horiuchi), Armed Forces & Society
    • Replication data​
  • 2020. "Party, Candidate, and Voter Incentives under Free List Proportional Representation" (with Thomas J. Mustillo), The Journal of Theoretical Politics.
  • 2019. "Bureaucracy and the Failure of Politics: Challenges to Democratic Governance", (with Kenneth J. Meier, Mallory Compton, Miyeon Song, and Cameron Wimpy),  Administration & Society,  51(10): 1576-605.
  • 2019. La presidencia del ejecutivo unitario de Rafael Correa. Revista Latinoamericana de Política Comparada, 15: 99-122.
  • 2019. "Bureaucratic Politicization, Partisan Attachments, and the Limits of Public Agency Legitimacy: the Venezuelan Armed Forces under Chavismo". Latin American Research Review, 52(2): 476-498.
    • ​​Replication data
    • Replication code
    • Supplementary appendix
  • 2019. "The Tools of Institutional Change under Post-Neoliberalism: Norms, Planning, and Growth of the State in Rafael Correa’s Ecuador" (with Francisco Sánchez),  Journal of Latin American Studies, 51(2): 379-408.
  • 2018. "Measures and Votes: Party Performance under Free List Proportional Representation with Evidence from Ecuador" (with Thomas J. Mustillo), Electoral Studies 56: 124-135.
    • Replication data and supplementary appendix
  • 2017. "Coups, Impeachments, and Presidential Exit in Latin America" (with Aníbal Pérez-Liñán), Democratization 24(5): 839-858.​
    • Replication data
  • 2017. "Desempeño económico y movilización social como detonantes de las caídas presidenciales: propuesta teórica y aplicaciones al caso ecuatoriano" (with Santiago Basabe-Serrano) Perfiles latinoamericanos 25(50): 129-153.
  • 2017. "Debates: Venezuela" LASA Forum (with Iñaki Sagarzazu and Raúl Sánchez Urribarrí), 48(1): 35-38.
  • 2016. "The Organizational Consequences of Politics: A Research Agenda for the Study of Bureaucratic Politics in Latin America" (with Alejandro Trelles), Latin American Politics and Society 58(4): 56-79.
    • Supplementary appendix
  • 2015. "Here's the Bias! A (Re-)reassessment of the Chilean Electoral System" (with Peter Siavelis), Electoral Studies 40: 268–279.
  • 2014. "Hacía una superación del clivaje regional? La evolución de la nacionalización de los partidos políticos ecuatorianos desde el retorno a la democracia", América Latina Hoy 67: 91-118.
    • District-level legislative electoral returns
  • 2014. "Ni Chicha ni Limoná: Party Nationalization in Pre-and Post-Authoritarian Chile" (with Scott Morgenstern and Peter Siavelis), Party Politics  20(5): 751–766.
    • Supplementary appendix
  • 2014. "Election Note: The 2013 Ecuadorian General Elections" (with Jason Eichorst), Electoral Studies 33: 361-365.
    • District-level legislative electoral returns
  • 2014. "Seven Imperatives for Improving the Measurement of Party Nationalization with Evidence from Chile" (with Scott Morgenstern and Peter M. Siavelis), Electoral Studies 33: 186-199.
    • Supplemental appendix
  • 2013. "Tall, Grande, or Venti, but not Short: Comparing Presidential Powers in the U.S. and Latin America" (with Scott Morgenstern and Sarah Shair-Rosenfield), Journal of Politics in Latin America, 5(2): 37-70.
  • 2013. "Ecuador: Estabilidad institucional y la consolidación de poder de Rafael Correa", Revista de Ciencia Política, 33(1): 135-160.
  • 2013. "Legislative Coalitions and Judicial Turnover under Political Uncertainty: The Case of Ecuador" (with Santiago Basabe) in Political Research Quarterly, 66(1): 153-165.
    • Replication data
  • 2011. "Coalition Erosion and Presidential Instability in Ecuador" (with Andrés Mejía Acosta) in Latin American Politics and Society, 53(2): 87-111.
    • Spanish translation: 2011. "Soluciones parlamentarias a las crisis presidenciales en Ecuador" (with  Andrés Mejía Acosta) in Revista Latinoamericana de Política Comparada, 4(1): 49-73.
  • 2006. "Primary Elections and Candidate Strength in Latin America" (with John M. Carey) in Journal of Politics 68 (3): 530-543.
    • Replication data

Book chapters

  • ​2023. "La persecución de los secretos: cómo las agencias de inteligencia se arriesgan a socavar a los líderes", in Inteligencia Estratégica: Pensamiento crítico e interconectado en un mundo global, Ed. M.D. Ordóñez, Alcalá: Marcial Pons, Ediciones Jurídicas y Sociales. 99-112. (with Cullen Nutt)
    • ​English version: "Reining in the Spies: The Tradeoffs of Policymaker Control Over Intelligence"
  • 2022. "Divergent paths of (de-)politicization: the Colombian and Venezuelan public administrations, in The Politics of Public Administration, Eds. A. Ladner and F. Sager, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. 380–392.
  • ​2021. "Venezuela: The Erosion of Security Capacity", in Security and Democracy in Latin America, Eds. G. Marcella, O. Pérez and B. Fonseca, Abingdon: Routledge. 157-174.
  • 2021. "Two Nations, One Revolution: The Evolution of Contemporary Cuba-Venezuela Relations", in Venezuela's Authoritarian Allies: The Ties that Bind. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center. 102-121. (with Brian Fonseca)
  • 2020. "Hacía una superación del clivaje regional? La evolución de la nacionalización de los partidos políticos ecuatorianos desde el retorno a la democracia", in Antología de la Democracia Ecuatoriana, 1979-2020, Eds. M. Calderón, Quito: Instituto de la Democracia. 279-320.
  • 2020. "Reshaping the State: The Unitary Executive Presidency of Rafael Correa", in Assessing the Left Turn in Ecuador, Eds. S. Pachano and F. Sánchez, New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 15-39.
  • 2019. "Ideologia versus Capacidade: Dilma Rousseff, as Forças Armadas, e o Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento", in Instituições, Comportamento Politíco e Democracia, Ed. L. Santana, Alagoas: Editora Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL). 33-60.
  • 2019. "Bureaucracy in Latin America", in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American Politics, Ed. G. Prevost, Oxford: Oxford University Press
  • 2019. "The Rise of Organized Crime in Venezuela under Chavismo", in The Criminalization of the State: The Relationship Between States and Organized Crime, Eds. J. Rosen, B. Bagley, and J. Chabat, Lanham: Lexington Press. 189-207.
  • 2018. "Presidential Candidate Selection in Comparative Perspective", in Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science, Ed. Sandy Maisel, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • 2018. "Explaining military coups and impeachments in Latin America", in The Military’s Impact on Democratic Development. Midwives or Gravediggers of Democracy?, Ed. D. Kuehn, London and New York: Routledge. 57-76. (with Aníbal Pérez-Liñán)
  • 2018. "Against all odds: Unilateral Executives and Portfolio Allocation in Ecuador (1979-2015)," in Government Formation and Minister Turnover in Presidential Cabinets. Comparative Analysis in the Americas, ed. M. Camerlo and C. Martínez-Gallardo. London: Routledge (with Santiago Basabe-Serrano and Andrés Mejía Acosta).
  • 2015. "Bureaucracy and Policy Implementation in Latin America", in Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy (EPAP), Third Edition, M. Dubnick and D. Bearfield (Eds), New York: Taylor & Francis
  • 2014. "Crisis económicas y protestas sociales como explicación de las caídas presidenciales: un análisis de causalidad coyuntural múltiple aplicado al caso ecuatoriano" (with Santiago Basabe-Serrano) in Democracia local y participación ciudadana, M.L. Eberhardt (Ed),  Buenos Aires: Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche
  • 2010. "Parliamentary Solutions to Presidential Crises" (with Andrés Mejía Acosta) in Presidential Crises in Latin America L. Marsteintredet and M. Llanos (Eds), New York: Palgrave MacMillan
    • Spanish translation: 2011. "Soluciones parliamentarias a las crisis presidenciales"  (with Andrés Mejía Acosta) in Algo más que   Presidentes. El    papel del Poder Legislativo en América Latina. M. Alcántara and M. García Montero (Eds), Zaragoza: Fundación Manuel Giménez Abad
  • 2008. "The primary election 'bonus' in Latin America." (with John M. Carey) in Designing Democratic Government: Making Institutions Work M. Levi, J. Johnson, J. Knight, and S. Stokes (Eds), New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press
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Policy Papers

  • 2020. Two Nations, One Revolution: The Evolution of Contemporary Cuba-Venezuela Relations. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center (with Brian Fonseca)
  • 2019. Ecuadorian Military Culture. Miami: Florida International University
  • 2019. A Transition from Above or from Below in Venezuela? Georgetown Journal of International Affairs Georgetown University (August 30).
  • 2019. “Las nuevas sanciones económicas de los Estados Unidos contra Venezuela” in Foro Cubano, 2(10).
  • 2018. “Constitutional Change in Ecuador: Improving Democratic Accountability—and Constraining a Rival” in ConstitutionNet, International IDEA (March 31).
  • 2017. "The Roots of Venezuela’s Failing State". Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective, 10(9).
    • Spanish translation: 2017. "Las raíces del estado fallido venezolano"
  • 2017. "In Venezuela’s Political Prisoner Revolving Door, Maduro is the Doorman". Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Georgetown University (April 20). 
  • ​2016. Venezuelan Military Culture, Miami: Florida International University (with Brian Fonseca and Harold Trinkunas)
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Book Reviews

  • ​2016. Barry Cannon. The Right in Latin America. Elite Power, Hegemony and the Struggle for the State (New York & London: Routledge, 2016) in E-International Relations. 
  • 2015. Rosario Queirolo. The Success of the Left in Latin America (South Bend: Notre Dame University Press, 2013) in Democratization (with Peter Siavelis)
  • 2013. Santiago Basabe. Jueces sin toga: políticas judiciales y toma de decisiones en el Tribunal Constitutional del Ecuador (1999-2007), (Quito: FLACSO Ecuador, 2011) in Revista de Ciencia Política 33(3): 729-733
  • 2010. John M. Carey. Legislative Voting and Accountability (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008) in Política y Gobierno, XVII (2): 396-399.
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