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Scott W. Desposato
Researcher at University of California, San Diego
Publications - 47
Citations - 1608
Scott W. Desposato is an academic researcher from University of California, San Diego. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Legislature. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 41 publications receiving 1465 citations. Previous affiliations of Scott W. Desposato include University of Arizona & University of Zurich.
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Parties for rent? Ambition, ideology, and party switching in Brazil's chamber of deputies
TL;DR: In this article, a model of party-membership patterns is proposed, where decisions to switch party or to stay put are a function of the strategic interaction of legislators and endogenous party leaders.
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The Gender Gap in Latin America: Contextual and individual influences on gender and political participation
TL;DR: This article examined the relationship between gender and participation in seventeen Latin American countries and found that the most important contextual factors are civil liberties and women's presence among the visible political elite in these countries.
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The Variable Incumbency Advantage: New Voters, Redistricting, and the Personal Vote
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the personal vote costs of redistricting and propose a variable incumbency advantage, which is a function of short-term effects, partisanship, and electoral saliency.
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The Impact of Federalism on National Party Cohesion in Brazil
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the impact of federalism on national party cohesion and find that federalism does significantly reduce party cohesion, and that this effect can be tied to multiple state-level interests.
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Constituency Building in Multimember Districts: Collusion or Conflict?
TL;DR: In this paper, a general model of how legislators decide whom they should target as prospective constituents was proposed and tested with travel data for 100 legislators elected in a single, nationwide district, finding that incumbents protect their existing supporters and avoid bailiwicks dominated by others.