Research

Books

• Andy Baker (2022). Shaping the Developing World: The South, the West, and the Natural World: Second Edition. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press. [Request a review copy.]  [First Edition, 2014]

• Andy Baker, Barry Ames, and Lucio Renno (2020). Persuasive Peers: Social Communication and Voting in Latin America. (Princeton Studies in Global and Comparative Sociology). Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. Online appendices and replication materials.

  • Winner of the 2021 APSA Political Networks Section Best Book Award, awarded every other year for the best book published in the past two years.
  • Portuguese translation: Pares Persuasivos: Comunicação social e votação na América Latina (2023). Brasília: Editora Universidade de Brasília.
  • Reviewed in the following:
    • Perspectives on Politics
    • Latin American Research Review

• 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.
  • Blog post: Monkey Cage
  • Reviewed in the following:
    • Perspectives on Politics
    • Comparative Political Studies
    • International Journal of Public Opinion Research
    • Latin American Research Review
    • Latin American Politics and Society
    • Bulletin of Latin American Research
    • Choice Reviews Online

Refereed Journal Articles

• Andy Baker and David Cupery (2023). “Animosity, Amnesia, or Admiration? Mass Opinion around the World toward the Former Colonizer.” British Journal of Political Science. Published version. Online Appendix. Replication materials.

• Andy Baker (2023). “The Microfoundations of Latin America’s Social Policy Coalitions: The Insider/Outsider Labor Divide and Attitudes toward Different Welfare Programs in Mexico.” World Politics 75(1): 99-144. Online Appendix. Replication materials.

• Andy Baker and Dalton Dorr (2022). “Labor Informality and the Vote in Latin America: A Meta-Analysis.” Latin American Politics and Society 64(2): 21-44. Published version. Online Appendix. Replication materials.

• Andy Baker and Lucio Renno (2019). “Nonpartisans as False Negatives: The Mismeasurement of Party Identification in Public Opinion Surveys.” Journal of Politics 81(3): 906-922. Online Appendix. Replication materials.

• Andy Baker and Stefan J. Wojcik (2019). “Does Democratization Lower Consumer Prices? Regime Type, Prices, and the Consumer–Producer Tradeoff.” International Political Science Review 40(2): 145-160. Published version (gated).

• Andy Baker and Vania Ximena Velasco-Guachalla (2018). “Is the Informal Sector Politically Different? (Null) Answers from Latin America.” World Development 102: 170-182. Published version (gated).

• Andy Baker, Barry Ames, Anand E. Sokhey, and Lucio R. Renno (2016). "The Dynamics of Partisan Identification when Party Brands Change: The Case of the Workers Party in Brazil." Journal of Politics 78(1): 197-213. Online appendix. Replication materials.

• Andy Baker, James R. Scarritt, and Shaheen Mozaffar (2016). "Ethnopolitical Demography and Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa." Democratization 23(5): 838-861. Published version (gated). Online appendix.

• Andy Baker (2015). "Race, Paternalism, and Foreign Aid: Evidence from U.S. Public Opinion." American Political Science Review 109(1): 93-109. Online appendix. Replication materials.
  • Relevant blog posts: Monkey Cage and USAPP
• Joby Schaffer and Andy Baker (2015). "Clientelism as Persuasion-Buying: Evidence from Latin America." Comparative Political Studies 48(9): 1093-1126. Published version (gated). Online appendix. Replication materials.
  • Winner of the 2017 Mitchell Seligson Prize for the best scholarship using LAPOP’s AmericasBarometer data that was published in the prior two calendar years.
• Anand E. Sokhey, Andy Baker, and Paul Djupe (2015). "The Dynamics of Socially Supplied Information: Examining Discussion Network Stability over Time." International Journal of Public Opinion Research 27(4): 565-587. Published version (gated).
• Andy Baker and David Cupery (2013). "Anti-Americanism in Latin America: Economic Exchange, Foreign Policy Legacies, and Mass Attitudes toward the Colossus of the North." Latin American Research Review 48(2): 106-130. Online appendix.
  • Mentioned in the following mass media outlets:
    • The New York Times
    • Huffington Post
    • Efecto Naim [TV appearance]
    • Americas Quarterly 7(2): 45-51. [Version en español]
    • El Tiempo
    • Americas Society: Council of the Americas [Video]
    • La Vuelta [Podcast interview]
    • Understanding Latin American Politics [Podcast inteview of Cupery]
• Andy Baker and Kenneth F. Greene (2011). "The Latin American Left's Mandate: Free Market Policies and Issue Voting in New Democracies." World Politics 63(1): 43-77. Online appendix. Data.
• Chappell Lawson, Gabriel S. Lenz, Andy Baker, Michael Myers (2010). "Looking Like a Winner: Candidate Appearance and Electoral Success in New Democracies." World Politics 62(4): 561-93.
  • Mentioned in the following mass media outlets:
    • My Science, July 27, 2010.
    • National Affairs, October 8, 2010.
    • The New Republic, October 12, 2010.
    • New York Magazine, August, 3, 2010.
    • Morning Edition, WBUR, July 29, 2010.
    • Politico, August 3, 2010.
    • Reuters, July 29, 2010.
    • Wall Street Journal: Week in Ideas, October 16, 2010.
• Barry Ames, Andy Baker, Lucio R. Renno (2009). "Split-Ticket Voting as the Rule: Voters and Permanent Divided Government in Brazil." Electoral Studies 28:8-20.
• 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.
  • Reprinted in Edward D. Mansfield, ed. (2015). International Trade and the New Global Economy. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Lila Rosenthal, Deborah P. Scott, Zeman Kelleta, Astatkie Zikarge, Matthew Momoh, Judith Lahai-Momoh, Michael W. Ross, and Andy Baker (2003). "Assessing the HIV/AIDS Health Services of African Immigrants to Houston." AIDS Education and Prevention 15(6): 570-580.
• Andy Baker (2002). "Reformas liberalizantes e aprovação presidencial: a politização dos debates da política econômica no Brasil." Dados 45(1): 77-98. "Free-Market Reform and Presidential Approval: The Politicization of Economic Policy Debates in Brazil." [English version].
• Andrew B. Baker (1997). "Identifying Political Subcultures in Mexico." Operant Subjectivity 20(3/4): 73-96.

Chapters in Edited Volumes

• Andy Baker and Dalton Dorr (2019). “Mass Partisanship in Three Latin American Democracies.” In Noam Lupu, Virginia Oliveros, and Luis Schiumerini (eds.), Campaigns and Voters in Developing Democracies: Argentina in Comparative Perspective. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, pp. 89-113. [Purchase the Volume].

• Barry Ames, Andy Baker, and Amy Erica Smith (2018). “Social Networks in the Brazilian Electorate.” In Jennifer Nicoll Victor, Alexander H. Montgomery, and Mark Lubell (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Political Networks. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 855-874. Published version (gated). [Purchase the Volume].

• Andy Baker and Kenneth F. Greene (2015). “Positional Issue Voting in Latin America.” In Ryan Carlin, Matthew Singer, and Elizabeth Zechmeister (eds.), The Latin American Voter. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, pp. 173-194. [Purchase the Volume].
• Andy Baker (2015). "Public Mood and Presidential Election Outcomes in Mexico." In Jorge I. Domínguez, Kenneth F. Greene, Chappell Lawson, and Alejandro Moreno (eds.), Mexico's Evolving Democracy: A Comparative Study of the 2012 Elections. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. [Purchase the Volume].
• Andy Baker (2010). "La Viabilidad Política y la Popularidad Masiva de los TLC." In José Raúl Perales y Eduardo Moron, eds., La Economía Política del Tratado de Libre Comercio entre Perú y Estados Unidos. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, pp. 43-50. "The Political Viability and Mass Popularity of Free Trade in Latin America." [English version].
• Andy Baker (2009). "Regionalized Voting Behavior and Political Discussion in Mexico." In Jorge I. Domínguez, Chappell Lawson, and Alejandro Moreno, eds., Consolidating Mexico's Democracy: The 2006 Presidential Campaign in Comparative Perspective. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 71-88. [Purchase the Volume]. [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].

Other Publications

• Andy Baker, Sarah Berens, Germán Feierherd, and Irene Menéndez González (2020). “Labor Informality and its Political Consequences in Latin America.” LAPOP Insights Series, #144. https://www.vanderbilt.edu/lapop/insights/IO944en.pdf [Spanish version: “Informalidad laboral y sus consecuencias políticas en América Latina.” https://www.vanderbilt.edu/lapop/insights/IO944es.pdf]

• Andy Baker (2019). “Review of J.P. Singh. Sweet Talk: Paternalism and Collective Action in North–South Trade Relations.” Perspectives on Politics 17(2): 628-629.

• Andy Baker (2018). “Review of Richard Nadeau, Éric Bélanger, Michael S. Lewis-Beck, Mathieu Turgeon, and François Gélineau. Latin American Elections: Choice and Change.” Latin American Politics and Society 60(2): 118-121.

• Andy Baker, Carew Boulding, Shawnna Mullenax, Galen Murton, Meagan Todd, Ximena Velasco-Guachalla, and Drew Zackary (2017). “Maintaining Civic Space in Backsliding Regimes.” Research and Innovation Grants Working Papers Series. Washington, D.C.: USAID and IIE. Project website.

• Andy Baker (2015). "White Americans are Supportive of Redistribution to Foreigners of African Descent, but for Prejudicial and Paternalistic Reasons." USAPP: The LSE's Daily Blog on American Politics and Policy. March 13.

• Andy Baker (2015). "Media Portrayals of Africa Promote Paternalism." Monkey Cage: Washington Post. March 5.
• Andy Baker (2014). "Latin Americans are Embracing Globalization and their Former Colonial Masters." Monkey Cage: Washington Post. June 2.
• Andy Baker and David Cupery (2013). "Gringo Stay Here!" Americas Quarterly 7(2): 45-51. [Version en español].
• Andy Baker (2010). "Review of Jude Hays, Globalization and the New Politics of Embedded Liberalism." Political Studies Quarterly 125(4): 717-719.
• Andy Baker (2009). "Review of Larry Diamond, Marc. F. Plattner, and Diego Abente Brun, eds., Latin America's Struggle for Democracy." Latin American Politics and Society  51(3):164-167.
• 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.