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Mona Marie Lyne

University of South Carolina Phone: (803) 777-6959
Department of Government and International Studies FAX: (803) 777-8255
Columbia, SC 29208 e-mail: lynemm@sc.edu

Education

PhD
University of California, San Diego, February 1999
Political Science: Comparative Politics and International Relations
Dissertation:  The Voter s Dilemma and Electoral Competition:
Explaining Development Policy and Democratic Breakdown in
Developing Democracies  

MA Monterey Institute of International Studies, May 1989
International Policy Studies: Latin American Politics and Development

BS University of California, Berkeley, August 1984
Engineering Science: Bioengineering

Employment Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina, 1999-Present

Instructor, San Diego State University, Department of Political Science, Spring 1998

Instructor, University of San Diego, Department of Political Science, Fall 1996, 1997

Instructor, University of California, San Diego, Department of Political Science, Summer 1993

Grants and Sponsored Programs and Research, University of South Carolina

Fellowships
Explaining Democratic Stability in Brazil: Identifying Weak and Strong Electoral Connections in Legislative Organization.   January-December 2000

College of Liberal Arts Scholarship Support Awards, University of South Carolina

Explaining Democratic Stability in Brazil: Identifying Weak and Strong Electoral Connections in Legislative Organization.   January-September 2000

Social Science Research Council

Dissertation Field Research Fellowship, Brazil, December 1994 - May 1995

Fulbright IIE Research Grant

Dissertation Field Research, Brazil, December 1993 - December 1994

Social Science Research Council

International Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, Brazil, July 1991 - June 1992.

Papers

Generalizing the Electoral Connection: The Voter's  Dilemma, Party Presented Reform and Democratic Consolidation in Brazil.   American Political Science Association, Washington D.C., August 31-September 3, 2000.

From Clientilism to Collective: Electoral Incentives and the Executive-Legislative Policy Bargain in Brazil.  
Presented At:
--Western Political Science Association, San Jose, March 24-26, 2000.
--Latin American Studies Association, Miami, March 16-19, 2000

Parties as Electoral Agents: The Voter's Dilemma and the Paradox of Reform in Brazil and Collapse in Venezuela.  
Presented At:
--Universidade de São Paulo, Department of Political Science, May 25, 1999
--Instituto Universitario de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro (IUPERJ), Rio de Janeiro, May 28, 1999
--USC-Georgia Southern Joint Faculty Seminar, November 8, 1999
--William Wilson Brown, Jr. Conference in Latin American Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill, January 17, 2000

Party Behavior and Electoral Law in Brazil: Is the Tail Wagging the Dog?  
Southwestern Political Science Association, San Antonio, March-April, 1999.

The Voter's Dilemma, Factions, and Strange Bedfellows, or, Why Latin American Political Parties Historically Weakened Democracy and How We Can Tell.  
Latin American Studies Association, Guadalajara, April 1997

Trade Reform in Brazil: More to Liberalization than Meets the Eye.  
International Studies Association, San Diego, April 1996

Distributional Politics, Pockets of Efficiency and Development in Latin America.  
Latin American Studies Association, Atlanta, March 1994

Research in
Explaining Institutional Choice in the Southern Cone of Latin America:

Progress
The Voter's Dilemma and Legislative Delegation to the Executive.  

Usurping the Collective Power or Distributing the Individual Incentives?

The Voter's Dilemma and Legislative Agenda Control in Brazil.  

How Party Leaders Influence Re-election in Decentralized Electoral

Systems. Evidence from Brazil, 1989-present  

Pork, Rents, Clientilism and Political Market Failure: Distinctions With a Difference.  

Teaching Undergraduate

Experience

Latin American Politics

International Relations of Latin America

Contemporary Issues in Latin American Politics

Introduction to Comparative Politics

Comparative Foreign Policy

Graduate

Introduction to Comparative Politics

International Relations of Latin America

Professional

Chair, Institutions and Democratic Stability in Second and Third

Activities and Wave Democracies,   Annual Meeting of the American Political

Service

Science Association, August-September, 2000

Comparative Politics Search Committee, University of South Carolina, Department of Government and International Studies, 1999-2000, 2000- 2001

Discussant and Chair, Latin American Politics Between Military and Democracy,   Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, March 2000, San Jose, CA

Languages

Portuguese and Spanish

Memberships

American Political Science Association

Latin American Studies Association (Latin American Political Institutions and Brazilian Politics Sections)

Western Political Science Association

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