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Yemen's Uncertain Future Threatens Regional StabilityYemen's Uncertain Future Threatens Regional Stability
Wednesday 19 November 2008
Yemen presents a 'perfect storm' of problems for Western governments confronting the prospect of state failure in this strategically...

Key Foreign Policy Issues Facing Barack ObamaKey Foreign Policy Issues Facing Barack Obama
Wednesday 5 November 2008
Chatham House experts offer their perspectives on the key foreign policy and economic challenges facing the new administration. The following...

Economic Crisis May Need More 'Out of the Box' MeasuresEconomic Crisis May Need More 'Out of the Box' Measures
Wednesday 15 October 2008
A new paper by Chatham House says that the once-in-a-century economic meltdown means that OECD countries' simultaneous collapse in...

Prospects for Georgian Civil Society
November, 2008
This is a summary of a meeting held at Chatham House on 10 November 2008.

Business and Human Rights: Closing the Gaps
November, 2008
This is a summary of the International Law Discussion Group meeting held on 6 November 2008 at Chatham House.

Reflections on Russia and the West
November, 2008
Those concerned with policy-making towards Russia must determine how best to listen to the country's changing conversation with itself,...

Yemen: Fear of Failure
November, 2008
Yemen presents a potent combination of problems for policy-makers confronting the prospect of state failure in this strategically important...

 

 

Dr Timothy Power

Associate Fellow, Americas

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Expertise

  • Brazil
  • Latin America
  • Political parties
  • Elections
  • Democratisation

Projects

  • Compulsory voting in Brazil
  • Legislative oversight in Brazil

Recent Publications

  • Democratic Brazil Revisited, (co-edited with Peter R Kingstone) Pittsburgh, forthcoming Fall 2008
  • Agenda Power, Executive Decrees Authority, and the Mixed Results of Reform in the Brazilian Congress, (co-editor) Legislative Studies Quarterly, 33, No 1 forthcoming February 2008
  • Does Democratization Depress Participation? Voter Turnout in the Latin American and Eastern European Transitional Democracies, Political Research Quarterly, 60, No.3, September 2007: pp 363-377
  • Exporting Congress? The Influence of the US Congress on World Legislatures, (co-edited with Nicol C Rae), Pittsburgh, 2006
  • Rewarding Lula: Executive Power, Social Policy, and the Brazilian Elections of 2006, (with Wendy Hunter) Latin American Politics and Society, 49, No.1, Spring 2007: pp1-30

Experience

Sept 05 - Present University Lecturer in Brazilian Studies, University of Oxford
Aug 99 - Sept 05 Associate Professor, Florida International University
Aug 92 - Aug 99 Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University

Broadcast Experience

Some

Languages

English, Portuguese, Spanish - all broadcast standard.