Mark P. Jones

About

Mark P. Jones is the Joseph D. Jamail Chair in Latin American Studies and a professor in the Department of Political Science at Rice University. He serves as the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy’s Political Science Fellow and is the faculty director of the Master of Global Affairs Program. His research focuses on the effect of electoral laws and other political institutions on governance, representation, public policy, and voting. He has received substantial financial support for his research, including multiple grants from the National Science Foundation. Currently, his principal research agendas include examining the impact of political institutions on politics and public policy in Latin America and Argentina, studying the political attitudes and behavior of Texas Hispanics, and analyzing Texas legislative roll call vote data to better understand Texas history from 1835 to the present.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Engineering
• Sociology
• Computer Science
• Data science
• Environmental planning
• Mechanical engineering
• Economy
• Economics
• Business

Selected publications

• Conservation Science: Heritage Materials

  The Royal Society of Chemistry eBooks · 2021 · 88 citations

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  Conservation techniques for the analysis and preservation of heritage materials are constantly progressing. Building on the first edition of Conservation Science, this new edition incorporates analytical techniques and data processing methods that have emerged in the past decade and presents them alongside notable case studies for each class of material. An introductory chapter on analytical techniques provides a succinct overview to bring the reader up-to-speed with which type of material each…

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• Voters as Fiscal Liberals: Incentives and Accountability in Federal Systems

  Economics and Politics · 2012-04-13 · 74 citations

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  Most empirical evidence indicates voters penalize deficits and spending growth. Contrary to this dominant finding, a few recent studies conclude that voters reward public spending. We reconcile these conflicting findings, positing that the structure of fiscal federalism in countries like Argentina causes voters to reward fiscal expansion because they perceive that this extra spending at the margin is not financed by them, but rather by the nation at large. We provide evidence and microfoundation…

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• Women’s Representation in Argentine National and Subnational Governments

  Oxford University Press eBooks · 2018-02-15 · 24 citations

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  Tiffany D. Barnes and Mark P. Jones provide an analysis of women’s representation in Argentina. Argentina no longer retains the title of the most successful case of women’s representation in the region. Women’s legislative representation is just over the quota threshold—33%. They point out that the country has had more female presidents than any other Latin American country but lags behind in women’s representation among subnational executives, in national and subnational cabinets, and in party…

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• Presidential and Legislative Elections

  2017-09-06 · 10 citations

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  Over a hundred countries have popularly elected presidents. Within a democratic context, presidential and legislative elections have a profound impact on politics and government in a country. Systems of government with democratically elected presidents fall into two broad regime-type categories: pure presidential and semipresidential. Presidential systems vary in terms of the length of the president’s term, the rules determining how the winner of the presidential contest is determined, and the a…

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• Presidentialism and Legislatures

  2015-02-17 · 7 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Mariano Tommasi

  University of San Andrés

  13 shared

• Richard Bird

  University of Oxford

  12 shared

• Shriram Krishnamurthi

  12 shared

• Sebastián M. Saiegh

  12 shared

• Scott Mainwaring

  Oxford University Press (United Kingdom)

  7 shared

• Ernesto Stein

  7 shared

• Norman F. Ramsey

  Tufts University

  6 shared

• Matthias Felleisen

  6 shared

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