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Professor Samuels currently serves as co-editor of Comparative Political Studies. His most recent book is Partisans, Antipartisans and Non-Partisans: Voting Behavior in Brazil (with Cesar Zucco) (Cambridge University Press, 2018). His book Inequality and Democratization: An Elite-Competition Approach (with Ben Ansell) (Cambridge University Press, 2014), won the American Political Science Association's Woodrow Wilson Foundation award for "best book on politics, government, or international affairs," as well as the William H. Riker best book prize from the Political Economy Section of the American Political Science Association. He is also the author of Presidents, Parties, and Prime Ministers (with Matthew Shugart) (Cambridge University Press, 2010), Ambition, Federalism, and Legislative Politics in Brazil (Cambridge University Press, 2003), and the co-editor of Decentralization and Democracy in Latin America (University of Notre Dame Press, 2004). His introductory undergraduate comparative politics textbook, Comparative Politics and country-casebook Case Studies in Comparative Politics, are available from Pearson Higher Education.
David Samuels received his Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego in 1998. His research and teaching interests include Brazilian and Latin American politics, US-Latin American relations, and the empirical implications of democratic theory in comparative politics.
He is the author of Presidents, Parties, and Prime Ministers (with Matthew Shugart), forthcoming from Cambridge University Press, Ambition, Federalism, and Legislative Politics in Brazil (Cambridge University Press, 2003), and the co-editor of Decentralization and Democracy in Latin America (University of Notre Dame Press, 2004). His introductory undergraduate comparative politics textbook, Comparative Politics: A Thematic Introduction, as well as a country-casebook Case Studies in Comparative Politics, are forthcoming from Pearson/Longman Publishers in 2010.
Welcome to my website. I am Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. My work focuses on a variety of issues in political economy, including both comparative politics and international relations.
Ben Ansell is Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions in the Department of Politics and International Relations and Professorial Fellow, Nuffield College. He received his PhD in Government from Harvard University in 2006 and conducts research in a wide area of comparative politics and political economy. Before joining Oxford and Nuffield College he was an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota.
Subnational units of analysis play an increasingly important role in comparative politics. Although many recent studies of topics such as ethnic conflict, economic policy reform, and democratization rely on comparisons across subnational political units, insufficient attention has been devoted to the methodological issues that arise in the comparative analysis of these units. To help fill this gap, this article explores how subnational comparisons can expand and strengthen the methodological repertoire available to social science researchers. First, because a focus on subnational units is an important tool for increasing the number of observations and for making controlled comparisons, it helps mitigate some of the characteristic limitations of a small-N research design. Second, a focus on subnational units strengthens the capacity of comparativists to accurately code cases and thus make valid causal inferences. Finally, subnational comparisons better equip researchers to handle the spatially uneven nature of major processes of political and economic transformation.
I received my PhD in Government from Harvard University in 2006 and now conduct research in a wide area of comparative politics and political economy. Before joining the University of Oxford and Nuffield College in 2013, I was an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. My initial research focus was the politics of education; my book From the Ballot to the Blackboard: The Redistributive Politics of Education, published by Cambridge University Press in 2010, won the William H. Riker prize for best book in political economy in 2015. I have recently been working on the interplay between inequality and democratization and on the effects of housing price booms and busts on political preferences. Work on the former has culminated in Inequality and Democratization: An Elite-Competition Approach, published by Cambridge University Press in 2014, and I continue to pursue these research interests alongside this ERC Consolidator Award.
At the graduate level, Professor Berger and Associate Professor Richard Locke created a new dissertation workshop on comparative political economy and comparative politics. Professor James Snyder, jointly with Harvard University, co-organized the bi-weekly seminar on positive political economy. Professor Rodden is planning a workshop on "Fiscal Federalism in the European Union," which will be held at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University on November 4, 2000. Participants will include political scientists and economists from several countries.
I feel that there is an urgent need to do serious empirical and theoretically oriented research on how democracies work in many countries, both country and comparative studies. We need to go beyond the worldwide analysis of conditions for and performance of democracies and microanalysis of specific institutions in advanced democracies that tend to dominate the field. I find that we know too little. The task involves keeping distinct the implications of democratic political processes from the performance of states, their bureaucracies, and their economies, without ignoring the linkages with the more specific democratic institutions and processes of democratization. The study of democratic politics should not become dominated by the political economy of democratic countries. We have to know what difference does democracy make, what it can do and what it fails to do. The failures of democracies lead to breakdowns which are not only the results of the strength or cunning of their antagonists, but of the failures or low quality of democratic leadership. We need to know more about by what processes, in which institutional setting, such leaders have obtained power democratically and exercise it.
Ben W. Ansell is a professor of comparative democratic institutions in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College. His work examines the interplay of economic inequality, public policy, and political regimes. His books include Inequality and Democratization: An Elite-Competition Approach (2014), coauthored with David Samuels, and From the Ballot to the Blackboard (2010). He can be reached at ben.a...@politics.ox.ac.uk.