Rui J.P. de Figueiredo, jr. Assistant Professor of Business and Political Science Ph.D. 1997 Stanford (political science) × MA (econ) 1997, MA (poli sci) 1996 Stanford × BA 1989 Harvard (510) 642-6452 × rui@haas homepage × cv (pdf)

At Haas since 1997 × On leave Fall 2003 & Spring 2004.

Research Interests

American political institutions. Bureaucratic organization. Formal political theory. Political methodology. Comparative institutional analysis. Ethnic and political violence.

Selected Articles

“Electoral Competition, Political Uncertainty, and Policy Insulation" × American Political Science Review 96(2), 321-333 (2002).

"The Politics of Interpretation: Rationality, Culture, and Tradition" with Robert Bates and Barry Weingast × Politics and Society, December 1998.

"An Informational Perspective on Administrative Procedures" with Pablo Spiller and Santiago Urbiztondo × Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 15(1), 283-305 (1999).

"The Rationality of Fear: Political Opportunism and Ethnic Conflict" with Barry Weingast × in: J. Snyder & B. Walters [eds.]: Civil War, Insecurity and Intervention, forthcoming.