Department of Political Science

Jose Antonio Cheibub

Ph.D., Political Science, University of Chicago, 1994.

research interests:

• Democracy and democratization
• The role of democratic constitutions on economic, political and social performance
• Political representation
• Latin American politics

for more information:
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/cheibub/www/cheibub.html

Academic Positions

• July 2006 – July 2009 - Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Boeschenstein Scholar of Political Economy and Public Policy

Books Authored or Co-Authored (Original Editions)

• Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Material Well-Being in the World, 1950-1990. Cambridge University Press, 2000. With Adam Przeworski, Fernando Limongi, and Michael Alvarez. Winner of the 2001 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award given by the American Political Science Association for the best book published in the United Stated on government, politics or international affairs.
• Democracy Sourcebook. MIT Press, September 2003. Co-editor with Robert Dahl and Ian Shapiro.
• Presidentialism, Parliamentarism and Democracy. Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Chapters in Books

• "Culture and Democracy." World Culture Report 1997. UNESCO. With Adam Przeworski, and Fernando Limongi. Also published as “Democracy and Political Culture” in Metapolitica 8(3):52-69, 2004.
• "Political Regimes, Government Expenditure and Economic Growth" in Albert Breton, Gianlugi Galeotti, Pierre Salmon and Ronald Wintrobe, eds. Understanding Democracy: Economic and Political Perspectives. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. With Adam Przeworski. pp.107-124.
• “Democracy, Elections, and Accountability for Economic Outcomes.” In Adam Przeworski, Susan C. Stokes, and Bernard Manin, eds. Democracy and Accountability. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. With Adam Przeworski. pp. 222-250.
• “Presidentialism and Democratic Performance.” In Andrew Reynolds, ed. Constitutional Design: Institutional Design, Conflict Management, and Democracy in the Late Twentieth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. pp. 104-140.

Journal Articles

• "Presidentialism, Electoral Identifiability, and Budget Balances in Democratic Systems." American Political Science Review 100(3):335-350, August 2006.
• "Government Coalitions and Legislative Success Under Parliamentarism and Presidentialism." British Journal of Political Science 34:565-87, October 2004. With Adam Przeworski and Sebastian Saiegh.
• "Minority Governments, Deadlock Situations, and the Survival of Presidential Democracies." Comparative Political Studies 35(3):284-312, April 2002.
• "Governos de Coalizão nas Democracias Presidencialistas e Parlamentaristas." Dados 45(2), June 2002. With Adam Przeworski and Sebastian Saiegh.
• "Democratic Institutions and Regime Survival: Parliamentarism and Presidentialism Reconsidered." Annual Review of Political Science 2002. With Fernando Limongi.
• "Political Regimes and the Extractive Capacity of Governments: Taxation in Democracies and Dictatorships." World Politics 50(3), April 1998.
• "Democracia, Eleições e Responsabilidade Política." Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais 12:49-61, October 1997, São Paulo, Brazil. With Adam Przeworsk.
• "Classifying Political Regimes." Studies in Comparative International Development 31(2):3-36, 1996. With Adam Przeworski, Michael Alvarez and Fernando Limongi.
• "What Makes Democracies Endure?" Journal of Democracy 7(1):39-55, January 1996. With Adam Przeworski, Michael Alvarez and Fernando Limongi. Published in Spanish Agora 3(5):67-87, 1996; in Portuguese in Lua Nova: Revista de Cultura e Política 40/41:113-136, 1997; in Polish in Civitas (Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences).