Date and Time
May 20, 2010
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Availability
Open to Stanford faculty, students, staff, and visiting scholars
RSVP required by 5PM May 19

Speaker
Taylor C. Boas - Assistant Professor, Political Science at Boston University

Taylor C. Boas is a visiting Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, and Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston University (on leave during 2009-2010). He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2009. His current research focuses on campaigns, parties, and political communication in Latin America. He has also done work on methodology and concept analysis, and on the impact of the Internet in developing countries and authoritarian regimes.

His dissertation, "Varieties of Electioneering: Presidential Campaigns in Latin America," (pdf) develops a theory of success contagion to explain why the prevailing patterns of presidential campaign strategy in Chile, Brazil, and Peru have evolved in fundamentally different directions since their transitions to democracy.