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Timothy Power he/him

University of Oxford

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About

Timothy J. Power is currently serving as Head of the Social Sciences Division at the University of Oxford, where he is Professor of Latin American Politics and a Fellow of St Antony’s College. Power is a specialist on comparative politics and government, having written extensively on presidentialism and institutional design. He has focused specifically on elections, the party system and executive-legislative relations in Brazil. His articles on comparative presidentialism have appeared in Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Party Politics, International Political Science Review, and Political Research Quarterly, among other outlets. From 2018-2021, Power was Head of School at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA). An Associate Fellow of Chatham House from 2007 to 2017, he is also a former president of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA) and former Treasurer of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). He is a founding member and longtime board member of ALACIP, the Latin American Political Science Association. Power is also Associate Editor of the Journal of Politics in Latin America, and member of the editorial boards of Comparative Political Studies and Latin American Politics and Society. In ECPR, he is a member of both the Presidential Politics SG and the Latin American Politics SG.

Research Interests

Democratisation, Elections, Executives, Latin America, Parliaments, Political Parties

Standing Groups and Research Networks

Timothy has not yet joined any established ECPR Standing Groups or Research Networks.