Electoral rules and democracy in Latin America

Research design and quantitative analysis

Why was runoff superior? : theory and cross-national evidence

Plurality : problems in Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, and Venezuela (and the Panama exception)

Runoff : success in Brazil, Chile, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, and Uruguay

Runoff amid a plethora of political parties : Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Peru

Runoff : is a reduced threshold better? Argentina and Costa Rica

Conclusion and the future of presidential-election rules.