Research

Guillermo Toral (2023). Turnover: How lame-duck governments disrupt the bureaucracy and service delivery before leaving office. Conditionally accepted at the Journal of Politics.

Paper Best Paper Award, APSA Health Politics and Policy Section Media coverage @ BBC Brasil Media coverage @ Globo G1 Media coverage @ MIT News

Guillermo Toral (2023). How Patronage Delivers: Political Appointments, Bureaucratic Accountability, and Service Delivery in Brazil. American Journal of Political Science, Early view.

Article Publisher Appendix Replication data Non-technical summary Summary in Portuguese Best Paper Award, REPAL Media coverage @ Folha de São Paulo Media coverage @ Frankfurter Allgemeine Media coverage @ Nexo Media coverage @ The World

Guillermo Toral (2023). Can anti-corruption policies curb political budget cycles? Evidence from public employment in Brazil. Working paper.

Paper

Sarah Brierley, Kenneth Lowande, Rachel Augustine Potter, Guillermo Toral (2022). Bureaucratic Politics: Blind Spots and Opportunities in Political Science. Forthcoming, Annual Review of Political Science.

Article Inventory of articles on the bureaucracy

Guillermo Toral (2022). Book Review - Decadent Developmentalism: The Political Economy of Democratic Brazil, by Taylor, Matthew M. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2020. Political Science Quarterly 137 (2): 435-437.

Review Publisher

Taylor Boas, F. Daniel Hidalgo, Guillermo Toral (2021). Competence versus Priorities: Negative Electoral Responses to Education Quality in Brazil. Journal of Politics 83.4: 1417 - 1431.

Article Publisher Appendix Replication data Pre-analysis plan, field experiment Pre-analysis plan, survey experiment

Lily L. Tsai, Benjamin S. Morse, Guillermo Toral, Varja Lipovsek (2019). Information and Accountability: Evidence Syntheses of Within-Government and Citizen-Government Accountability Pathways. Transparency & Accountability Initiative.

Report Publisher Evidence review tool

Guillermo Toral (2019). Information, oversight, and compliance: A field experiment on horizontal accountability in Brazil. Working paper.

Paper Pre-analysis plan

Lily L. Tsai, Guillermo Toral, Blair Read, Varja Lipovsek (2018). Taxation and accountability in developing countries. Transparency & Accountability Initiative.

Report Publisher

Lily L. Tsai, Benjamin S. Morse, Guillermo Toral, Varja Lipovsek (2018). Effect of International Standards on Accountability Behaviors. Transparency & Accountability Initiative.

Report Publisher

Guillermo Toral (2015). Franchise reforms in the age of migration: Why do governments enfranchise noncitizens?. MIT Working Paper 2015-12.

Paper

Barbara Bruns, Javier Luque, Guillermo Toral, David Evans, Soledad de Gregorio (2015). Recruiting better teachers. Chapter 3 in Great Teachers: How to Raise Student Learning in Latin America and the Caribbean. Washington DC: World Bank.

Book Publisher Book in Spanish Book in Portuguese

Barbara Bruns, Javier Luque, David Evans, Guillermo Toral, Noah Yarrow, Soledad de Gregorio (2015). Grooming great teachers. Chapter 4 in Great Teachers: How to Raise Student Learning in Latin America and the Caribbean. Washington DC: World Bank.

Book Publisher Book in Spanish Book in Portuguese

Guillermo Toral (2010). Immigrant Organizations as Civil Society: A Three-Dimensional Analysis. Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas 132:105-130.

Article Publisher