Andy Baker
Assistant Professor • Department of Political Science • University of Colorado at Boulder

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Publications

Book

Andy Baker (2009). The Market and the Masses in Latin America: Policy Reform and Consumption in Liberalizing Economies. (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics). New York: Cambridge University Press. Draft of "Chapter 1: Consuming the Washington Consensus." [BUY IT HERE!]

Articles in Refereed Journals

Barry Ames, Andy Baker, Lucio R. Renno (2008). "Split-Ticket Voting as the Rule: Voters and Permanent Divided Government in Brazil." Electoral Studies.

Andy Baker and Ethan Scheiner (2007). "Electoral System Effects and Ruling Party Dominance in Japan: A Counterfactual Simulation Based on Adaptive Parties." Electoral Studies 26: 447-91.

Andy Baker, Barry Ames, and Lucio R. Renno (2006). "Social Context and Campaign Volatility in New Democracies: Networks and Neighborhoods in Brazil's 2002 Elections." American Journal of Political Science 50(2): 382-99.

Andy Baker (2005). "Who Wants to Globalize? Consumer Tastes and Labor Markets in a Theory of Trade Policy Beliefs." American Journal of Political Science 49(4): 924-38.

Andy Baker and Corey Cook (2005). "Representing Black Interests and Promoting Black Culture: The Importance of African American Descriptive Representation in the U.S. House." DuBois Review 2(2): 227-46.

Andy Baker and Ethan Scheiner (2004). "Adaptive Parties: Party Strategic Capacity under Japanese SNTV." Electoral Studies 23(2): 251-78.

Andy Baker (2003). "Why is Trade Reform so Popular in Latin America? A Consumption-Based Theory of Trade Policy Preferences." World Politics 55(3): 423-55.

Andy Baker (2002). "Reformas liberalizantes e aprovacao presidencial: a politizacao dos debates da politica economica no Brasil." [Portuguese version]. Dados 45(1): 77-98. "Free-Market Reform and Presidential Approval: The Politicization of Economic Policy Debates in Brazil." [English version].

Andy Baker (1997). "Identifying Political Subcultures in Mexico." Operant Subjectivity 20(3/4): 73-96.

Articles in Refereed Volumes

Andy Baker (2009). "Why is Voting Behavior so Regionalized in Mexico? Political Discussion and Vote Choice in the 2006 Election." In Jorge I. Dominguez, Chappell Lawson, and Alejandro Moreno (eds.), Mexico's Choice: The 2006 Presidential Campaign in Comparative Perspective. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. On-line Appendix.

Barry Ames, Andy Baker, and Lucio R. Renno (2008). "The 'Quality' of Elections in Brazil: Policy, Performance, Pageantry, or Pork?" In Timothy J. Power and Peter R. Kingstone (eds.), Democratic Brazil Revisited. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. [BUY IT HERE!]

Review Essays and Other Publications

Andy Baker (2006). "Government and Politics: Brazil." Handbook of Latin American Studies, No. 61. 61: 425-38.

Andy Baker (2004). "Review of Kurt Weyland, The Politics of Market Reform in Fragile Democracies: Argentina, Brazil, Peru, and, Venezuela." Journal of Politics 66(2): 643-45.

Andy Baker (2002). "Marketing Spectator Sports with Violence: The National Football League." GSC Quarterly 4(Spring).

Andy Baker (2001). "Review of Peter R. Kingstone and Timothy J. Power, eds., Democratic Brazil: Actors, Institutions and Processes." Luso-Brazilian Review 38(1): 130-31.