State Formation

Pristine (Sumeria and Egypt): 2022. “The Paradox of Civilization: Preinstitutional Sources of Security and Prosperity” (with Ernesto dal Bó and Pablo Hernández-Lagos), American Political Science Review 116.1 : 213–30

Pioneer (Western Europe): 2010. “Macrofoundations of Regime Change: Democracy, State Formation, and Capitalist Development.” Comparative Politics 43.1: 1-19.

Latecomer (Latin America): 2021. Mazzuca, Sebastián. Latecomer State Formation: Political Geography and Capacity Failure in Latin America. Yale University Press.

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State Capacity

2025. Capacidad de Estado. Clarificaciones Conceptuales. CAF.

2017. “States, Regimes, and Other Structures of Rule.” APSA Comparative Democratization Newsletter 15.1: 6, 27-31.

2017. Conflict and Institutional Development. From Geopolitics to Income Distribution. Editor. Corporación Andina de Fomento.

2012. “Capacidad, Autonomía y Legitimidad. Revisando (de nuevo) los Atributos del Estado Moderno,” Revista de Ciencia Política (UCA Chile), 32.3: 545-560.

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Democracy and Democratic Quality

2020. A Middle-Quality Institutional Trap with Gerardo Munck. Cambridge University Press.

2016. Political Regimes. Origins and Effects. Editor. Corporación Andina de Fomento.

2014. “Varieties of Clientelism” (with Jordan Gans-Morse and Simeon Nichter), American Journal of Political Science 58.2: 415-432.

2014. “State or Democracy First?” (with Gerry Munck), Democratization: 1221-1243.

2010. “Access to Power Versus Exercise of Power: Rreconceptualizing the Quality of Democracy in Latin America.” Studies in Comparative International Development 45.3: 334-357.