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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