Research

[Published Articles] [Working Papers] [Book Project]

Published Articles

Chang, Eric. “Electoral Incentives and Budgetary Spending: Rethinking the Role of Political Institutions.” Accepted at Journal of Politics (pending on minor revisions).

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Chang, Eric, and Yun-han Chu. “Quality of Political Choice and Popular Orientation toward Democracy.” In Democratization in Taiwan: Challenges in Transformation, edited by James Meernik and Phil Paolino. Under contract at Ashgate Press.

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Chang, Eric, Mark Kayser, and Ronald Rogowski. “Electoral Systems and Real Prices: Panel Evidence for the OECD Countries, 1970 - 2000.” British Journal of Political Science. Forthcoming. Also profiled in Democracy and Society 2 (1): 3 - 4.

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Chang, Eric, and Miriam Golden. 2007. “Electoral Systems, District Magnitude and Corruption.” British Journal of Political Science 37 (1): 115 - 37.

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Chang, Eric. 2006. (With Yun-han Chu). “Corruption and Trust: Exceptionalism in Asian Democracies?” Journal of Politics 68 (2): 259 - 71.

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Bratton, Michael, and Eric Chang. 2006. “State Building and Democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa: Forwards, Backwards, or Together?” Comparative Political Studies 39 (9): 1059 -83.

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Chang, Eric. 2005. “Electoral Incentives for Political Corruption under Open-List Proportional Representation.” Journal of Politics 67 (3): 716 - 730.

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Tsebelis, George, and Eric Chang. 2004. “Veto Players and the Structure of Budgets in Advanced Industrialized Countries.” European Journal of Political Research 43 (3): 449 - 476.  Also appears in George Tsebelis, 2002, Veto Players: How Institutions Work? Chapter 8. Princeton University Press.

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Golden, Miriam, and Eric Chang. 2001. “Competitive Corruption: Factional Conflict and Political Malfeasance in Postwar Italian Christian Democracy.” World Politics 53 (4): 588 - 622.

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Working Papers

On Electoral Systems

“Uncovering the Micro-foundation of Turnout and Electoral systems” With Tse-hsin Chen.

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“Electing An Electoral System: Change and Persistence in Electoral Rules.” With Ronald Rogowski . Under revision (September 2005).

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“Electoral Timing under Alternative Electoral Incentives.” In progress.

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On Political Corruption

“Income Inequality, Corruption, and Democratization in Developing Countries.” In progress. 

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“Sources of Corruption in Authoritarian Regimes.” With Miriam Golden. Under revision (October 2006)

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“The Electoral Consequences of Political Corruption.” With Miriam Golden and Seth Hill. Under review (September 2007).

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On Democratization

“Voting Realignment in New Democracies: Uncovering the Micro-foundation of Two-Turnover Test” Under revision ( September 2005 )

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Book Project


Electoral Systems and the Balance of Consumer-Producer Power. (With Ronald Rogowski, Mark Kayser and Drew Linzer).

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