Publications

 

Books

Jennifer Cyr. 2019. Focus Groups for the Social Science Researcher. Cambridge University Press.

Jennifer Cyr. 2017. The Fates of Political Parties: Crisis, Continuity, and Change in Latin America. Cambridge University Press.


Peer-reviewed Articles

Jennifer Cyr. 2018. “An Integrative Approach to Measurement: Focus Groups as a Survey Pretest.” Quality & Quantity. (1-17).

Jennifer Cyr. 2017. “The Unique Utility of Focus Groups for Mixed-Methods Research.” PS: Political Science and Politics. 50.4 (1038-1041).

Santiago Anria and Jennifer Cyr. 2017. Inside Revolutionary Parties: Coalition-Building and Maintenance in Reformist Bolivia. Comparative Political Studies. 50(9): 1255-87.

Jennifer Cyr. 2016. “Between Adaptation and Breakdown: Conceptualizing Party Survival.” Comparative Politics. 49(1): 125-145.

Jennifer Cyr. 2016. “The Pitfalls and Promise of Focus Groups as a Data Collection Method.” Sociological Methods and Research. 45(2): 231-59.

Jennifer Cyr. 2015. “Making or Breaking Politics: Social Conflicts and Party-System Change in Democratic Bolivia.” Studies in Comparative International Development. 50: 283-303.

Andrew Roberts, Jason Seawright, Jennifer Cyr. 2013. “Do Electoral Laws Affect

Women’s Representation?” Comparative Political Studies 46.12: 1555-1581.

Jennifer Cyr. 2013. “Que veinte años no es nada: Hugo Chávez, las elecciones de 2012, y el continuismo político venezolano.” Revista de Ciencia Política 33.1: 375-391.

Timothy Power and Jennifer Cyr. 2010. “Political Legitimacy in Latin America.” International Social Science Journal 196: 253-272.


Editor-reviewed Articles

Jennifer Cyr. 2018. “Making the Case for Case Studies in Multimethod Research” in Review Symposium on Multimethod Research, Causal Mechanisms, and Case Studies: The Research Triad by Gary Goertz, in European Political Science.


Book Chapters

Jennifer Cyr and Carlos Meléndez. 2016. “Una exploración de la identidad (y la anti-identidad) política a nivel subnacional: El fujimorismo y el chavismo en perspectiva comparada”. Representación política en América Latina: Partidos políticos, elecciones y reglas. Fernando Tuesta Soldevilla, ed. Lima: Jurado Nacional de Elecciones.

Jennifer Cyr and Iñaki Sagarzazu. 2014. “Sistemas de partido multinivel y el colapso del sistema de partidos en Venezuela.” Territorio y Poder: Nuevos actores y competencia política en los sistemas de partidos multinivel en América Latina, eds. Flavia Freidenberg y Julieta Suarez-Cao. Salamanca, España: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca.

Margarita Batlle and Jennifer Cyr. 2014. “El Sistema de partidos peruano al nivel nacional y subnacional.” Territorio y Poder: Nuevos actores y competencia política en los sistemas de partidos multinivel en América Latina, eds. Flavia Freidenberg y Julieta Suarez-Cao. Salamanca, España: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca.

Jennifer Cyr and James Mahoney. 2011. “The Enduring Influence of Historical Structural Approaches.” Handbook of Latin American Politics, eds. Peter Kingstone and Deborah Yashar. New York: Routledge Press.


Non Peer-reviewed

Jennifer Cyr. 2010. “Un día, una elección, ¿un nuevo horizonte político?” Argumentos 4.5 (Journal of the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Lima, Peru).


Book Reviews

Jennifer Cyr. 2016. “A Political Pas de Deux in the Andes.” Review of La danza hostil: La danza hostil: Poderes subnacionales y Estado central en Bolivia y Perú (1952-2012), by Alberto Vergara. ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America (Fall 2016, pp. 39-40).

Jennifer Cyr. 2013. Review of Power in the Balance: Parties, Presidents, and Legislatures in Peru and Beyond, by Barry Levitt. Perspective on Politics 11.2: 678-9.

Jennifer Cyr. 2008. Review of Impasse in Bolivia: Neoliberal Hegemony and Popular Resistance, by Benjamin Kohl & Linda Farthing. Latin American Politics and Society 50: 194-197.