Assistant Professor Mona Lyne
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego (1999)
M.A., Monterey Institute for International Studies
B.S. (Bioengineering), University of California, Berkeley
Email: lynemm@sc.edu

Mona Lyne's research and teaching interests include how electoral competition conditions democratic stability and performance, the politics of economic development, and the political economy of market-oriented reform.  Her current research focuses on the problems inherent in voter delegation to elected representatives, and how collective action problems inherent in this delegation condition institutional design, public policy and democratic stability.

Her current project generalizes theories of electoral competition to incorporate the strategic dilemmas which confront the individual voter, providing a causal explanation for the clientilist patterns of democratic governance which prevailed in post-War in Latin America, as well as how and why a clientilist democracy can be transformed into collective goods democracy.  Her empirical work focuses on comparisons of the post-War democracies with the new democracies of the 1980's in the Southern Cone of Latin America.  Several working papers and a book manuscript developing these themes are in progress.