Contact Information
Email
322-5016
344 Commons Center
Office Hours
Wednesdays 10:00 - 12:00 pm, and by appointment
Education
Ph.D., Duke University
M.A., Latin American Studies, University of Chicago
Subfields
Research Networks
Research on Individuals, Politics, and Society Lab (RIPS)
Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP)
Specializations
Comparative Politics, Latin American and Mexican Politics, Political Behavior
Curriculum Vitae
Elizabeth J. Zechmeister
Associate Professor
Associate Director, Latin American Public Opinion Project
Faculty Affiliate, Research on Individuals, Politics & Society Lab
Dr. Zechmeister received her Ph.D. from Duke University in 2003. Her research focuses on comparative political behavior, in particular in Latin America. Her work includes studies of voting, ideology, political parties, representation, charisma, and crisis. Zechmeister recently won two grants from the National Science Foundation in support of her research on the public opinion consequences of the global threat of terrorism and the 2010 Chile earthquake, respectively. Her research has appeared in the Journal of Politics, Electoral Studies, Comparative Political Studies, and Political Behavior, among others. She is co-author of Democracy at Risk: How Terrorist Threats Affect the Public (University of Chicago Press, 2009) and of Latin American Party Systems (Cambridge University Press (2010). Zechmeister teaches courses on Latin American politics, Mexican politics, and comparative political behavior.
Representative publications
- Zechmeister, Elizabeth, and Margarita Corral. Forthcoming. Individual and Contextual Constraints on Ideological Labels in Latin America. Comparative Political Studies.
- Merolla, Jennifer L., and Elizabeth J. Zechmeister. 2011. The Nature, Determinants, and Consequences of Chávez’s Charisma. Comparative Political Studies 44(1): 28-54.
- Herbert Kitschelt, Kirk A.Hawkins, Juan Pablo Luna, Guillermo Rosas, and Elizabeth J. Zechmeister. 2010. Latin American Party Systems. Cambridge University Press.
- Merolla, Jennifer L., and Elizabeth J. Zechmeister. 2009. Democracy at Risk: How Terrorist Threats Affect the Public. University of Chicago Press.
- Merolla, Jennifer L., and Elizabeth J. Zechmeister. 2009. "Las Percepciones de Liderazgo en el Contexto de las Elecciones Mexicanas de 2006." Política y Gobierno (special issue): 41-81.
- Zechmeister, Elizabeth J. 2008. "Policy-Based Voting, Perceptions of Feasible Issue Space, and the 2000 Mexican Elections." Electoral Studies 27(4): 649-660.
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