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Mona Marie Lyne

University of Missouri at Kansas City Phone: (816) 235-1383
Department of Political Science FAX: (816) 235-5594
5120 Rockhill Road, 213 Haag Hall e-mail: [email protected]
Kansas City, Missouri 64110-2499

Employment

Associate Professor and Department Chair, University of Missouri, Kansas City, 2011-12
Associate Professor, University of Missouri, Kansas City, 2010- 2011
Assistant Professor, University of Missouri, Kansas City, 2008-2010
Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina, 1999-2008

Education

PhD Political Science, University of California, San Diego, 1999
MA International Policy Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, 1989
BS Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1984

Honors, Awards and Grants

Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title, 2011, The Voter’s Dilemma and Democratic
Accountability: Latin America and Beyond.

Leon Weaver Award for best paper, American Political Science Association, 2004, Representation
and Electoral Systems Section.

Walker Institute for International and Area Studies Travel Grant, University of South Carolina,
Field Research, Venezuela, Argentina, and Chile, July 2007.

Sponsored Programs and Research, University of South Carolina, “Identifying Weak and Strong
Electoral Connections in Legislative Organization.” January-December 2000.

College of Liberal Arts Scholarship Support Awards, University of South Carolina, “Identifying
Weak and Strong Electoral Connections in Legislative Organization.” January-September 2000.

Dissertation Field Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council, Brazil,
December 1994 - May 1995.

Dissertation Field Research Grant, Fulbright IIE, Brazil, December 1993 - December 1994
International Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, Social Science Research Council, Brazil,

July 1991 - June 1992.
Pre-Dissertation Research Grant, Tinker Foundation, Brazil, June-July 1991.

Publications

Books:
The Voter’s Dilemma and Democratic Accountability: Latin America and Beyond. 2008.

The Pennsylvania State University Press.

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Articles:
“Controlling Coalitions: Social Lending at the Multilateral Development Banks,” with Dan

Nielson and Michael Tierney. Review of International Organizations, Volume 4, Number 4,
2009.

“Proffering Pork: How Party Leaders Build Party Reputations in Brazil.” American Journal of
Political Science (2008) 52(2): 1-14.

“Parties as Programmatic Agents: A Test of Institutional Theory in Brazil.” Party Politics (2005)
11(2):193-216.

Chapters in Edited Volumes:
“Getting the Model Right: Single, Multiple, and Collective Principals in Development Aid,” with
Dan Nielson and Michael Tierney. 2006. In Hawkins et al, Delegation and Agency in International
Organizations, Cambridge University Press, Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions Series.

“Rethinking Economics and Institutions: The Voter’s Dilemma and Democratic Accountability.”
2007. In Patrons or Policies: Citizen-Politician Linkages in Democratic Politics, Herbert Kitschelt
and Steven Wilkinson, eds. Cambridge University Press.

Research in Progress

Manuscripts in Progress:
“Rethinking the Political Economy of Import Substitution Industrialization: Not rent-seeking but
clientelism.” Revise and resubmit Latin American Politics and Society.

Analyzing Autocracies: They Didn’t Steal that Election, They Bought it Fair and Square. Book
manuscript in progress.

“Clientelism and Legislative Studies,” Working paper with Royce Carroll.

Papers Presented

“Analyzing Autocracies: They Didn’t Steal that Election They Bought it Fair and Square,” with
Andrew Sperry and Parker Webb.
International Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, March 2012.
Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, April 2012

“How Weak States and Strong MNCs make Competitive Politicians: A Clientelist Model of
Developing Country Policy Choice,” with Heather Hawn.
Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, April 2007

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“Flawed Institutions or Resolution of Madison’s Nightmare: Clientelism and Legislative
Evisceration of Separation of Power.”
American Political Science Association Meeting, Philadelphia, 2006

“Rent-Seeking, Pork-Barreling and Clientelism: Integrating Theories of Political Market
Failure.”
Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, April 2006
American Political Science Association Meeting, Philadelphia, 2006

“The Voter’s Dilemma and The Presidential-Parliamentary Debate: A General Electoral Theory
of Legislative Conflict and Cooperation”
Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, April 2006
American Political Science Association Meeting, Washington D.C., 2005

“Collective Principals and Coalitions: Social Lending at the Multilateral Development Banks”
International Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, March 2006

“Not Rent-Seeking but Clientelism, or Why the Washington Consensus Misdiagnosed the
Problems of Reform in Developing Countries”
Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, April 9-11, 2005
Latin American Studies Association Meeting, Las Vegas, September 2004

“The Voter’s Dilemma: Explaining the Failures of Welfare-Enhancing Entrepreneurship in
Developing Democracies”
College of William and Mary Faculty Seminar, November 11, 2004

“Endogenous Institutions: Electoral Law and Internal Party Dynamics in Brazil.”
Southern Political Science Association Meeting, New Orleans, Jan. 2005
Latin American Studies Association Meeting, Las Vegas, September 2004
American Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, Sept. 2004.

“Internal Dynamics of Party Reform in Brazil.” Conference on Origins, Change and Collapse of
Party Systems in Latin America, UNC Charlotte, October 24-25, 2003.

“A Problem of Principals: Common Agency and Social Lending at the Multilateral Development
Banks.” UCSD Conference on Delegation to International Organizations, Del Mar, Sept. 19-20, 2003.

“The Politics of Common Agency: Implications for Agent Control with Complex Principals.”
American Political Science Association Meeting, Philadelphia, 2003.

“The Problems of Principals in International Organization.” Workshop on Delegation to
International Organizations. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, December 13,
2002.

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“Rethinking Economic Development and Democratic Accountability: The Voter’s Dilemma,
Institutions, and Citizen-Politician Linkages.” American Political Science Association Meeting,
Boston, 2002.

“The Politics of Common Agency: Unitary, Collective and Multiple Principals.” BYU Conference
on Delegation to International Organizations, May 3-4, 2002, Park City, Utah

“Executive-Legislative Relations in the Southern Cone of Latin America: The Voters’ Dilemma
and Democratic Stability.”
Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, April 2002
American Political Science Association Meeting, San Francisco, 2001
Latin American Studies Association, Washington D.C., Sept. 2001

“Generalizing the Electoral Connection: The Voter’s Dilemma, Party Reform and Democratic
Consolidation in Brazil.”
International Predissertation Fellowship Program Conference, “Rethinking Social Science Research on
the Developing World in the 21st Century.” Sponsored by the Social Science Research Council, Park
City, Utah, June 7-11, 2001

“Of Citizens and Patrons: A Unified Electoral Theory of Programmatic and Clientelist
Democracy.”
Presented at the conference on Citizen-Politician Linkages, Duke University, March 30-April 1, 2001.

“Generalizing the Electoral Connection: The Voter’s Dilemma, Party Reform and Democratic
Consolidation in Brazil.”
American Political Science Association, Washington D.C., Sept. 2000

“From Clientelism to Collective: Electoral Incentives and the Executive-Legislative Policy
Bargain in Brazil.”
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.”
Universidade de São Paulo, Department of Political Science, May 1999
IUPERJ, Rio de Janeiro, May, 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, 1999.

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“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

Teaching Experience

Undergraduate
Latin American Politics
International Relations of Latin America
Contemporary Issues in Latin American Politics
Introduction to Comparative Politics
Comparative Foreign Policy
Comparative Politics of Developing Countries

Graduate
Introduction to Comparative Politics
International Relations of Latin America
Comparative Politics of Latin America

Professional Service

Discussant, “Democracy and Institutions,” Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago,
April 1-3, 2009.

Discussant, “Clientelism and Public Policy,” American Political Science Association Meeting, Boston,
August 29-Sept. 1, 2008.

Discussant, “Pivotal Elections and Democratic Development,” American Political Science Association
Meeting, Chicago, August 30-Sept. 2, 2007.

Discussant, “Effects of Decentralizing Social Services” and “Clientelism and Social Service Provision,”
Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, April 20-23, 2006.

Discussant, “North-South Relations and Politics of Interdependence” and “International Organizations
and Security,” International Studies Association Meeting, San Diego, March 2006.

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Discussant, “Game Theoretic Approaches to Democratization,” Midwest Political Science Association
Meeting, Chicago, April 9-11, 2005.

Discussant, “Delegation to International Courts,” UCSD Workshop On Delegation to International
Organizations, Del Mar, September 19-20, 2003

Discussant, “Anti Party Politics in Latin America,” American Political Science Association Meeting
Philadelphia, August 29-September 1, 2003

Discussant, “The Politics of Multiple Principals in the European Union,” Harvard Workshop on
Delegation to International Organizations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, April 26, 2003

Chair, “Clientelism in the New Democracies of the Third Wave,” American Political Science
Association Meeting, Boston, August 29-September 1, 2002.

Discussant, “Domestic Political Competition and International Delegation.,” BYU Conference on
Delegation to International Relations, Park City, Utah, May 3-4.

Chair, “Social Policy Reform in Comparative Perspective,” Midwest Political Science Association
Meeting, Chicago, April 25-28, 2002 .

Discussant, “Comparative Perspectives on Ideology, Participation and Representation,” Southern
Political Science Association, Atlanta, November 7-10, 2001.

Chair, “Democratic Linkages and Economic Liberalization II.” Duke University Conference on Citizen-
Politician Linkages, March 30-April 1, 2001.

Discussant, “Private versus Public Goods: A Portfolio Diversification Model of Policy Choice.” Duke
University Conference on Citizen-Politician Linkages, March 30-April 1, 2001.

Discussant and Chair, “Latin American Politics Between Military and Democracy,” Western Political
Science Association Meeting, San Jose, CA, March 2000.

Chair, “Institutions and Democratic Stability in Second and Third Wave Democracies” American
Political Science Association, Washington D.C., August 31-September 3, 2000.

Manuscript Reviews: American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, International
Organization, Journal of Political Science

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University and Community Service

Web page redesign, Political Science department, UMKC, 12/10-present
International Relations Search Committee Chair, 5/11-12/11, UMKC
American Politics Search Committee Chair, 5/10-1/11, UMKC
Latino(a)/Chicano(a) Director Search Committee member and Equal Opportunity Representative,

UMKC, 10/10-present
Panel Participant, RFK Memorial Symposium, “Diversity in Today’s American Dream:

Immigration in the 21st Century,” 3/9/2009.
Latin American Politics Presentation, Shepherd Center, Broadland Presbyterian Church,

2/20/2009.
Lunch Bunch, UMKC Political Science Department, Fall and Spring 2008-09.
Comparative Politics Search Committee, University of South Carolina, Department of Political

Science, 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003.
Public Administration Search Committee, University of South Carolina, Department of Political

Science, 2006-2007.
Undergraduate Committee, University of South Carolina, Department of Political Science, 2001-2007.
Minority Recruitment Committee, University of South Carolina,

Department of Political Science 2005-2007.
Affiliated Faculty, Latin American Studies Program, 1999-2007.
Minorities in International and Public Affairs Master’s Program Committee, 2002-2003.

Languages
Portuguese and Spanish

Memberships
American Political Science Association (Comparative Politics, Representation and Electoral Systems,

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

Sections)
Midwestern Political Science Association