Publications

2026 Polling Across Borders: The Promise and Pitfalls of Convenience Samples in a Cross-National Context Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · Public Opinion Quarterly · Scholar only 1 2025 Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Policing in Latin America Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · Dialogo Político, Fundación Konrad Adenauer Stiftung — 2025 How COVID Changed Latin America Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · Journal of Democracy 0 2024 La elección de Claudia Sheinbaum: cómo llegamos y hacia dónde vamos Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica — 2024 Lessons from Latin America: How Banning Trump from the Ballot Could Backfire Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · The Hill — 2024 Recidivism, Labor Markets, and Prison Conditions: Evidence from Uruguay Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · World Development 10 2024 The Consequences of Militarized Policing for Human Rights: Evidence from Mexico Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · Comparative Political Studies 79 2024 The Costs of El Salvador’s Crime Crackdown Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · Foreign Affairs, Council of Foreign Relations 8 2024 Will Security Reforms Make Ecuador Safer? Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · Latin America Advisor, Inter-American Dialogue — 2023 Are Militaries More Respectful of Human Rights than Police? Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · Political Violence at a Glance — 2023 Argentina’s Basket Case Economy Got Javier Milei Elected Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · The Daily Beast — 2023 Should the US Send Troops to Fight Mexican Drug Cartels? It’s Not a Good Idea Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · USA Today — 2023 Violent Crime and the Expansion of Executive Power in Latin America Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · Presidential Studies Quarterly 18 2022 Contemporary State Building: Elite Taxation and Public Safety in Latin America Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · Cambridge University Press 29 2022 Militarization and Perceptions of Law Enforcement in the Developing World: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment in Mexico Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · British Journal of Political Science 83 2021 Don’t Let Them Tell You that Inflation Is Good for the Poor: It’s Not Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · Fortune — 2021 The Militarization of Law Enforcement in Latin America Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · Perspectives on Politics 306 2020 Anxious about the Fate of American Democracy? Latin America Offers Lessons Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · The Hill — 2020 Building the Modern State in Developing Countries: Perceptions of Public Safety and (Un)willingness to Pay Taxes in Mexico Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · Politics & Society 39 2020 Una tormenta azotará las democracias latinoamericanas Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · New York Times (español) — 2019 Conclusion: Addressing Taxation’s Political Challenges Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · Cambridge University Press eBooks · Scholar only 4 2019 Latin America’s Generals Back in the Political Labyrinth Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · Washington Post 3 2019 Part 3: Disciplines in an active voice Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · Learning and Teaching · Scholar only 2 2019 Review of Challenges of Party Building in Latin America, by Steven Levitsky et al Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · Journal of Latin American Studies 0 2019 The Political Economy of NAFTA/USMCA Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics 26 2019 The Political Economy of Taxation in Latin America Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · Cambridge University Press 41 2019 Trump’s Hardball Tactics Could Implode Mexico’s Immigration System Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · LA Times — 2018 Building Support for Fiscal Reform in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Mexico Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · World Development 56 2018 El panorama electoral en América Latina en 2018 Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica · needs review — 2018 El panorama electoral en Latinoamérica en 2018 Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · Foreign affairs: Latinoamérica · Scholar only · needs review — 2018 End of Cuba's Castro Era Largely Symbolic, Yet Holds Promise of Change Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · Axios — 2018 La elección de López Obrador: cómo llegamos y hacia dónde vamos Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · Foreign affairs en español 0 2018 Mexico Hands Trump a Partial Victory in Proposed Trade Deal Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · Axios — 2018 Mexico’s Authoritarian Successor Party: Explaining the Resilience of the PRI Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · Life after Dictatorship: Authoritarian Successor Parties Worldwide 27 2018 Mexico’s New President Wants a New National Guard to Address Violent Crime. Will It Work? Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · Washington Post — 2018 NAFTA’s Overhaul: From Stability to Uncertainty Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · Foreign Policy Research Institute e-Notes — 2018 Should the US Worry about Meddling in Mexico’s July Presidential Race Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · Washington Post — 2018 The Consequences of Militarizing Anti-Drug Efforts for State Capacity in Latin America: Evidence from Mexico Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · Comparative Politics 116 2018 The Growth of Sino-Cuban Commercial and Political Ties Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · China Policy Institute: Analysis Online — 2018 The Macroeconomic Consequences of Party System Institutionalization Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · Party Systems in Latin America: Institutionalization, Decay, and Collapse 3 2018 What Should the US Expect from Mexico’s New President? Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · Fox News Online — 2018 With Opposition in Disarray, Maduro’s Win Spells Trouble for Venezuela Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · Axios — 2018 Worse than NAFTA Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · New York Times — 2017 Borrowing Support for War Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · Journal of Conflict Resolution · Scholar only — 2017 Borrowing Support for War: The Effect of War Finance on Public Attitudes toward Conflict Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · Journal of Conflict Resolution 103 2017 Four Unintended (and Dangerous) Consequences of Trump’s Plan to Kill Nafta Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · CNBC Online — 2017 Mexico’s Earthquake and Civil Society’s Aftershock Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · Medium — 2017 The Hidden Costs of Mass Deportations Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · CNBC Online — 2017 Trump’s Fight with Mexico Will Backfire Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · CNBC Online — 2016 Does Shielding the Public from the Costs of War Actually Affect Attitudes about the War? Gustavo A. Flores-Macías · The Washington Post/Monkey Cage —