Research

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 @ The World

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

Paper

Guillermo Toral (2022). Turnover: How lame-duck governments disrupt the bureaucracy and service delivery before leaving office. Revised and resubmitted to 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

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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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