Moises Arce
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Phone: 573-882-7791
Email: ArceM@missouri.edu
Web: web.missouri.edu/~arcem/
CV (pdf)
Moises Arce (Associate Professor) has been with the Department since 2006. He received his Ph.D. in 2000 from the University of New Mexico. He is the author of Market Reform in Society (Penn State 2005), and numerous articles in journals, such as Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, European Political Science Review, International Organization, Journal of Politics, Journal of Politics in Latin America, Latin American Politics and Society, Latin American Research Review, Party Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, Studies in Comparative International Development, and World Politics. His research has been funded by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Social Science Research Council. He previously taught at Louisiana State University. In Peru, he has served as visiting Fulbright lecturer at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (2003). From 2004-2006, he served as co-chair of the Peru Section, an interdisciplinary organization of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA).
Research Statement
My overall research interests are in the areas of democratization, market transitions, public opinion and contentious politics. My current research examines the social consequences of political and economic liberalization across Latin America. I have approached this research project with a mixture of case studies and large-N analysis. In the first phase of this work, I studied the macro-level political and economic conditions that have led to the resurgence of popular contention following the implementation of economic reforms across the region. In the second and final phase of this research, I examine the meso-level dynamics that intertwine political parties with extra-parliamentary political activity, seeking to explain the conditions under which politicians actively encourage and support political protests. In this second phase, I also pay attention to the possible democratizing consequences of popular contention.
Courses Taught
Latin American Government and Politics
Third World Politics
Politics of Development
Comparative Democratization
Comparative Political Economy (Graduate)
Latin American Politics (Graduate)
Recent Representative Publications
“Competitiveness, Partisanship and Subnational Protest in Argentina,” co-authored with Jorge Mangonnet, Comparative Political Studies (forthcoming).
“The Politicization of Indigenous Identities in Peru,” co-authored with Christopher Raymond, Party Politics (forthcoming)
“Protest and Democracy in Latin America’s Market Era,” co-authored with Paul T. Bellinger Jr., Political Research Quarterly (forthcoming).
“Globalization and Extra-parliamentary Politics in an Era of Democracy,” co-authored with Wonik Kim, European Political Science Review 3, 2 (2011): 253–278.
“Presidential Support in a Context of Crisis and Recovery in Peru, 1985-2008,” co-authored with Julio Carrión, Journal of Politics in Latin America 2, 1 (2010): 31-51.
Moises Arce. 2010. “Parties and Social Protest in Latin America’s Neoliberal Era,” Party Politics 16 (5): 669-686.
Moises Arce and Cameron Thies. 2009. “The Politics of Exchange Rate-Based Stabilization vs. Structural Reforms in Latin America,” Comparative Political Studies 42 (9): 1193-1219.
Moises Arce and Roberta Rice. 2009. “Societal Protest in Post-stabilization Bolivia,” co-authored with Roberta Rice, Latin American Research Review 44 (1): 88-101.
Moises Arce. 2008. “The Repoliticization of Collective Action After Neoliberalism in Peru,” Latin American Politics and Society 50 (3): 37-62.
Moises Arce and Paul T. Bellinger, Jr. 2007. “Low-Intensity Democracy Revisited: The Effects of Economic Liberalization on Political Activity in Latin America,”World Politics 60 (1): 97-121.