J. Tyler Dickovick

 

Welcome. I am an Assistant Professor of Politic s at Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. 

 

My research is on politics in developing countries, with a focus on Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa.  My existing published work is on decentralization and intergovernmental relations.  I have conducted research in Brazil, South Africa, Peru, and Senegal  Research projects underway focus on democracy in Africa and subnational politics in Brazil.

 

Prior to coming to Washington and Lee, I studied at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, and was a Peace Corps volunteer in Togo (West Africa). 

 

The image at right is from a Politics 101 (Comparative Government) seminar.

 

Links

 
Curriculum Vitae

CV

 

Washington & Lee Programs

Shepherd Poverty Program

Latin American Studies Program 

Brazil Consortium

 

Thinking Locally, Acting Globally

Peace Corps

Amnesty International

Human Rights Watch

 

Graduate School

Woodrow Wilson School

Assn. of Professional Schools of Int’l Affairs

 

World News

BBC News

Reuters

All Africa

 

Selected Publications (existing and forthcoming)

Recent conference presentations and Works-in-Progress

Legacies of Leftism:

Ideology, Ethnicity, and Democracy in Benin, Ghana, and Mali

Third World Quarterly, 2008

 

Municipalization as Central Government Strategy:

Central-Regional-Local Politics in Peru, Brazil, and South Africa

Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 2007.

 

The Measure and Mismeasure of Decentralization in Africa:

Senegal and South Africa
Journal of Modern African Studies, 2005.

 

[w/Kent Eaton]

The Politics of Re-centralization in Argentina and Brazil

Latin American Research Review, 2004.


Centralism and ‘decentralization’ in unitary states:

a comparative analysis of Peru and Senegal

Journal of Public and International Affairs, 2003.

 

[Translation]

Fernando Henrique Cardoso.  2001.  Charting a New Course, The Politics of Globalization and Social Transformation (Boulder: Rowman Littlefield Press).  Selected essays and speeches by President Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil. Mauricio Font, ed.

 

“Legacies of Leftism:

Ideological and Ethnic Representation in Africa’s Consolidating Democracies”

African Studies Association, 2007

 

[w/Kent Eaton]

The International Political Economy of Decentralization in Latin America

American Political Science Association, 2006.

 

Differential Development in Brazil

Latin American Studies Association, 2006

 

 

Manuscript in progress

When the Center Holds:

Decentralization and Recentralization in Developing Countries

                                       

Chapter 1. Decentralization and Recentralization in Developing Countries

Chapter 2. Historical Trajectories in Subnational Autonomy

Chapter 3. Subnational Revenue Autonomy

Chapter 4. Subnational Expenditure Autonomy

Chapter 5. Subnational Contractual Autonomy

Chapter 6. Subnational Fiscal Autonomy in Unitary States

Chapter 7. When the Center Holds: Conclusions and Implications

 

Chapters available upon request.

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