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Publications

Desposato, Scott W. and Barbara Norrander. "Latin America: Contextual and Individual Influences on Gender and Political Participation." British Journal of Political Science.

Brown, David, Brown, J. Christopher, and Scott Desposato. Forthcoming. Who Gives, Who Receives and Who Wins? Transforming Capital into Political Change through Non-Governmental Organizations". Comparative Political Studies.

Desposato, Scott W. Forthcoming. "The Impact of Electoral Rules on Legislative Parties: Lessons from the Brazilian Senate and Chamber of Deputies". Journal of Politics

Brown, David, Brown, J. Christopher and Scott Desposato. Forthcoming. "Promoting and Preventing Political Change Through Internationally-Funded NGO Activity". Latin American Research Review.

Desposato, Scott W. 2006. "Parties for Rent? Careerism, Ideology, and Party Switching in Brazil's Chamber of Deputies." American Journal of Political Science.

Desposato, Scott W. Forthcoming. "Correcting for Small Group Inflation of Roll-Call Cohesion Scores". British Journal of Political Science. 35:04 (Oct). 731-744.

Petrocik, John and Scott Desposato. Forthcoming. "Incumbency from the Voter's Perspective ". Political Research Quarterly

Brown, Christopher, Brown, David, and Scott Desposato. Forthcoming. "Paving the Way to Political Change: Decentralization of Development in the Brazilian Amazon". Political Geography.

Desposato, Scott W. 2004. "The Impact of Federalism on National Political Parties in Brazil." Legislative Studies Quarterly. XXIX: 259-85

Crisp, Brian and Scott Desposato. 2004. "Constituency Building in Multimember Districts: Collusion or Conflict?" Journal of Politics. 66(1): 136-156.

Desposato, Scott W. 2003. "Comparing Group and Subgroup Cohesion Scores: A Nonparametric Method with an Application to Brazil." Political Analysis. 11(3): 275-288.

Desposato, Scott W. and John R. Petrocik. 2003. "The Variable Incumbency Advantage: New Voters, Redistricting, and the Personal Vote". American Journal of Political Science. 47(1): 18-22

Brown, David and Christopher Brown and Scott Desposato. 2002. "Left Turn on Green? International NGO's, Civil Society, and Political Change". Comparative Political Studies. 35(7): 814-838

Desposato, Scott W. "Legislative Politics in Authoritarian Brazil". 2001. Legislative Studies Quarterly. XXVI(2): 287-317.

Petrocik, John R. and Scott W. Desposato. 1998. "The Partisan Effects of Majority Minority Districting, 1992-1994". The Journal of Politics. 66(1): 613-633

Book Chapters

Desposato, Scott. Forthcoming. "How Informal Electoral Institutions Determine Brazilian Legislative Politics". in Informal Institutions and Democratic Politics. Edited by Steven Levitsky and Gretchen Helmke.

Desposato, Scott. 2004. "How Vote Buying Shapes the Legislative Arena". in Vote Buying: Who, What, When, and How? Edited by Frederic Schaeffer and Andreas Schedler. Forthcoming.

Desposato, Scott and John Petrocik. 2004. "The Variable Incumbency Advantage: New Voters, Redistricting, and the Personal Vote". In Redistricting in the New Millenium. Edited by Peter Galderisi. Lanham: Lexington Books. Forthcoming.

Desposato, Scott. Forthcoming. "Explaining Patterns of Oversight in Brazilian Subnational Governments". In Legislative Oversight: Theories and Practices. Edited by Dave Olson, Riccardo Pelizzo, and Frank Stapehurst. WBI Working Papers Series on Contemporary Issues in Parliamentary Development. The World Bank.