ELIZABETH J. ZECHMEISTER

ELIZABETH J. ZECHMEISTER Department of Political Science, Vanderbilt University PMB 0505, Nashville, TN 37203-5721 liz.zechmeister@vanderbilt.edu office tel: 615-322-5016 EMPLOYMENT 8/10-9/09-7/08-7/10 Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University Associate Director, Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) Faculty Affiliate, Research on Individuals, Politics, & Society (RIPS) Lab Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University Assistant Director, LAPOP 7/08-8/09 Co-Director, RIPS Lab, Vanderbilt University 7/03-6/08 Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis EDUCATION 2003 Duke University, Ph.D. in Political Science, Distinction in exams 1996 University of Chicago, M.A. in Latin American Studies 1994 Loyola University Chicago, B.A., Summa cum laude BOOKS 2010 Latin American Party Systems. Cambridge University Press. (with Herbert Kitschelt, Kirk A. Hawkins, Juan Pablo Luna, and Guillermo Rosas) 2009 Democracy at Risk: How Terrorist Threats Affect the Public. University of Chicago Press. (with Jennifer L. Merolla) ARTICLES Natural Disaster and Democratic Legitimacy: The Public Opinion Consequences of Chile s 2010 Earthquake and Tsunami. Political Research Quarterly (with Ryan E. Carlin and Gregory J. Love) Trust Shaken: Earthquake Damage, State Capacity, and Interpersonal Trust in Comparative Perspective. Comparative Politics (with Ryan E. Carlin and Gregory J. Love) The Varying Political Toll of Concerns about Corruption in Good versus Bad Economic Times. Comparative Political Studies. (with Daniel Zizumbo-Colunga) Name Recognition and Candidate Support. American Journal of Political Science. (with Cindy D. Kam) Evaluating Political Leaders in Times of Terror and Economic Threat: The Conditioning Influence of Politician Partisanship. Journal of Politics. (with Jennifer L. Merolla) Delincuencia, Crisis Económica, y Apoya a la Democracia en México. Política y Gobierno. (with Jennifer L. Merolla and Evis Mezini) 2013 Individual and Contextual Constraints on Ideological Labels in Latin America. Comparative Political Studies 46(6): 675-701. (with Margarita Corral) 2011 The Nature, Determinants, and Consequences of Chávez s Charisma. Comparative Political 1

Studies 44(1): 28-54. (with Jennifer L. Merolla) 2011 Sex, Stereotypes and Security: A Study of the Effects of Terrorist Threat on Assessments of Female Political Leadership. Journal of Women, Politics & Policy 32: 173-192. (with Mirya R. Holman and Jennifer L. Merolla) 2009 Terrorist Threat, Leadership, and Vote Choice: Evidence from Three Experiments. Political Behavior 31(4): 575-600. (with Jennifer L. Merolla) 2009 Las Percepciones de Liderazgo en el Contexto de las Elecciones Mexicanas de 2006. Política y Gobierno volumen temático (special issue): 41-81. (with Jennifer L. Merolla) 2008 Policy-Based Voting, Perceptions of Feasible Issue Space, and the 2000 Mexican Elections. Electoral Studies 27(4): 649-660. 2008 Can Canadians Take a Hint? The (In)Effectiveness of Party Labels as Information Shortcuts in Canada. Canadian Journal of Political Science 41(3): 673-696. (with Jennifer L. Merolla and Laura B. Stephenson) 2008 It s Not Easy Being Green: Minor Party Labels as Heuristic Aids. Political Psychology 29(3): 389-405. (with Travis Coan, Jennifer L. Merolla, and Laura B. Stephenson) 2008 From the Gap to the Chasm: Gender and Participation among Non-Hispanic Whites and Mexican-Americans. Political Research Quarterly 61(2): 205-218. (with Cindy D. Kam and Jennifer R. Wilking) 2007 Beyond the Narrow Data Base : Another Convenience Sample for Experimental Research. Political Behavior 29(4): 415-440. (with Cindy D. Kam and Jennifer R. Wilking) 2007 Crisis, Charisma, and Consequences: Evidence from the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election. Journal of Politics 69(1): 30-42. (with Jennifer L. Merolla and Jennifer M. Ramos) 2007 La Aplicación de los Métodos Experimentales en el Estudio de los Atajos Informativos en México. Política y Gobierno 14(1): 117-142. (with Jennifer L. Merolla and Laura B. Stephenson) 2006 What s Left and Who s Right? A Q-Method Study of Individual and Contextual Influences on the Meaning of Ideological Labels. Political Behavior 28(2): 151-173. 2006 Qué es la Izquierda y Quién está a la Derecha en la Política Mexicana. Un Enfoque con el Método Q al Estudio de las Etiquetas Ideológicas. Política y Gobierno 13(1): 51-98. 2005 Representation in Latin America: A Study of Elite-Mass Congruence in 9 Countries. Comparative Political Studies 38(4): 388-416. (with Juan Pablo Luna) 2005 Globalization, Globalización, Globalisation: Public Opinion and NAFTA. Law and Business Review of the Americas 11(3/4): 573-596. (with Jennifer L. Merolla, Laura B. Stephenson, and Carole J. Wilson) 2001 Better the Devil You Know than the Saint You Don t? Risk Propensity and Vote Choice in Mexico. Journal of Politics 63(1): 93-119. (with Scott Morgenstern) BOOK CHAPTERS 2012 Public Opinion Research in Latin America. Chapter in the Handbook on Latin American Politics, edited by Peter Kingstone and Deborah Yashar. Routledge. (with Mitchell A. Seligson) 2

2011 Authoritarianism, Need for Closure, and Conditions of Threat. In Extremism and the Psychology of Uncertainty, edited by Michael A. Hogg and Danielle L. Blaylock. Wiley-Blackwell. (with Jennifer L. Merolla and Jennifer M. Ramos) 2011 Una Evaluación de la Representación por Mandato en América Latina a través de las Posiciones en la Escala Izquierda-Derecha y de las Preferencias Económicas. In M. Alcántara & M. García Montero (Eds.), Algo más que presidentes. El papel del poder legislativo en América Latina. Zaragora: Fundación Manuel Giménez Abad de Estudios Parlamentarios y del Estado Autonómico. (with Margarita Corral) OTHER PUBLICATIONS Trust in Elections in Venezuela. Insights Series AmericasBarometer Topical Brief. Latin American Public Opinion Project, Vanderbilt University, April 8, 2013. (with Frederico Batista Pereira and Mitchell A. Seligson) Support for Democracy Endures in Venezuela. Insights Series AmericasBarometer Topical Brief. Latin American Public Opinion Project, Vanderbilt University, March 11, 2013. (with Frederico Batista Pereira and Mitchell A. Seligson) Assessing the Impact of the New Middle Class on Politics and Democracy. Americas Quarterly vol. 6 no. 4 (Fall 2012): 74-76. (with Laura Sellers and Mitchell A. Seligson) The AmericasBarometer by LAPOP: What has been Accomplished, What Remains to be Done. APSA-CD Newsletter October 2012. (with Mitchell A. Seligson) Book Review of Social Capital in Developing Democracies: Nicaragua and Argentina Compared, by Leslie E. Anderson, in Perspectives on Politics vol. 10 no. 2 (2012): 507-508. AmericasBarometer 2012 Round Draws on Lessons from 2010 Surveys. Insights Series #76. Latin American Public Opinion Project, Vanderbilt University, April 2012. (with Mitchell A. Seligson and Amy Erica Smith) Vote Buying in the Americas. Insights Series #57. Latin American Public Opinion Project, Vanderbilt University, February 2011. (with Brian Faughnan) Politics in Hard Times: Belize. Insights Series #56. Latin American Public Opinion Project, Vanderbilt University, February 2011. (with Diana Orcés and Amy Erica Smith) Who Supports Free Trade in the Americas (and Why)? Americas Quarterly Winter 2011, pp. 66-69. (with Daniel Zizumbo-Colunga and Mitchell A. Seligson) What Troubles Citizens of the Americas? FOCAL Research Paper, January 2011. (with Mitchell A. Seligson) El Chile Post-Terremoto: Efectos Políticos y Actitudinales del Megasismo del 27 de Febrero de 2010. Chapter 8 in Cultura Política de la democracia en Chile, 2010: Consolidación democrática en las Américas en tiempos difíciles. Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) Country Report (published December 2010), pp. 157-165. (with Ryan E. Carlin and Gregory J. Love) The 2010 AmericasBarometer. Insights Series #53. Latin American Public Opinion Project, Vanderbilt University, November 2010. (with Mitchell A. Seligson) The Political Toll of Corruption on Presidential Approval. Insights Series #52. Latin American Public Opinion Project, Vanderbilt University, November 2010. (with Daniel Zizumbo-Colunga) 3

Citizen Fears of Terrorism in the Americas. Insights Series #46. Latin American Public Opinion Project, Vanderbilt University, August 2010. (with Daniel Montalvo and Jennifer L. Merolla) Social Capital and Economic Crisis. Insights Series #43. Latin American Public Opinion Project, Vanderbilt University, July 2010. (with Daniel Zizumbo-Colunga and Mitchell A. Seligson) The Varying Economic Meaning of Left and Right in Latin America. Insights Series #38. Latin American Public Opinion Project, Vanderbilt University, May 2010. (with Margarita Corral) Book Review of Politicians and Politics in Latin America, edited by Manuel Alcántara Sáez, in Latin American Politics and Society vol. 50 no. 4 (2008): 173-196. Hacia una Definición de la Izquierda y la Derecha en México. Este País no. 141 (2002): 69-75. (with Alejandro Moreno) Book Review of Brazilian Party Politics and the Coup of 1964 by Ollie Andrew Johnson, III, in Comparative Political Studies vol. 35 no. 5 (2002): 621-624. Priming Individuals on Free Trade: A Cross-National Experiment of the Linkages between Economic Insecurity and Policy Preferences. Working Paper 2001/168, Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Ciencias Sociales, Instituto Juan March de Estudios e Investigaciones (2001) (with John Aldrich, Jennifer L. Merolla, and Laura B. Stephenson) WORKING PAPERS Ideology and the Latin American Voter. Prepared for Inclusion in The Latin American Voter project. Emotional Responses to Human Security Threats: Evidence from a National Experiment. (with Travis G. Coan and Jennifer L. Merolla) Terrorist Threat and the Activation of Masculine Stereotypes on Candidate Evaluations. (with Mirya Holman and Jennifer L. Merolla) Terrorism and Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean. (with Jennifer L. Merolla and Daniel Montalvo) Vote Buying and Democratic Public Opinion in the Americas. (with Mollie Cohen and Brian Faughnan). RESEARCH GRANTS National Science Foundation Collaborative RAPID Grant, $61,819 (with Ryan Carlin and Gregory Love), 2010 National Science Foundation Collaborative Research Grant, $297,252 (with Jennifer Merolla), 2009-2011 Vanderbilt University Research Scholar Fellowship (supporting a one semester leave), 2009-2010 Time-sharing Experiments in the Social Sciences (TESS) award (with Jennifer Merolla and Mirya Holman), 2009 Inter-American Development Bank Grant (with Mitchell A. Seligson; award included funds for internet experiments in Mexico and the United States), 2009 Time-sharing Experiments in the Social Sciences (TESS) award (with Jennifer Merolla), 2008 UC-Davis, IGA Junior Faculty Research Award, 2007 Fletcher Jones Small Grant (from Claremont Graduate University; with Jennifer Merolla), 2007 4

UC-MEXUS Small Grant, 2006-2007 UC-Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) Faculty Grant (with Jennifer Merolla), 2006-2007 Fletcher Jones Small Grant (from Claremont Graduate University; with Jennifer Merolla), 2005-2006 UC-Davis Small Grant in Aid of Research, 2005-2006 UC-MEXUS, Small Grant Award (with Cindy Kam), 2004-2005 UC-Davis, IGA Faculty Seed Grant Competition (with Jennifer Ramos), 2004-2005 UC-Davis New Faculty Research Program Award, 2004-2005 UC-Davis IGA Junior Faculty Research Award (with Jennifer Merolla and Laura Stephenson), 2003-2004 Duke University Research Grants (several, to purchase survey questions in Mexico), 2002 Duke University Department of Political Science Research Grant (Mexico), 2001 Mellon Research Grant (Mexico), 2001 Duke Globalization and Equity Research Grant (Peru), 1998 Ford Foundation Pre-dissertation Research Grant (Peru), 1998 University of Chicago Mexican Studies Research Grant (Mexico), 1995 HONORS AND AWARDS General National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, 1998-2002 Duke Latin American Studies Fellowship for Graduate Study, 1997-1998 University of Chicago University Scholarship, 1994-1996 Teaching Vanderbilt s Jeffrey Nordhaus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, 2012 ASUCD Excellence in Education, Nominee and Finalist, 2007 UC-Davis Undergraduate Instructional Improvement Program Award, 2004 Language Foreign Language Area Studies Academic Year Fellowship, 2000-2001 Foreign Language Area Studies Summer Fellowship (Mexico), Summer 2000 Papers Winner of Best Paper Award in International Relations at the Midwest Political Science Association Meeting (MPSA), 2011 (award presented in 2012) INVITED PRESENTATIONS (2010-present) 2013 UCSD, Ethics in Experiments in Comparative Politics Conference UNC-Charlotte, 8th Annual William Wilson Brown, Jr. Conference Keynote Speaker University of Miami-Center for Latin American Studies Florida International University Americas Quarterly / Americas Society, New York United Nations Development Programme HDR, New York Wilson Center, Washington, DC (2) 2012 Mershon Center at the Ohio State University New York University Georgia State University (Conference on Experiments for Export) University of Texas-Austin (Workshop on Evidence-based Approaches to Latin American Constitutionalism) 5

Inter-American Dialogue 2011 Université Laval (Workshop on Elections, Electoral Behavior, and the Economy in Latin America) Universidad San Francisco de Quito New York Area Political Psychology Meeting Rutgers University Georgia State University Inter-American Dialogue, Washington, DC. 2010 Asociación Chilena de Ciencia Política (ACCP) Congress Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (Workshop on Experiments) CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (2010-present) Terrorist Threat, Emotions, and Information Acquisition: Evidence from an Eight Country Study. Prepared for the 71 st Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 11-14, 2013, Chicago, IL. (with Jennifer L. Merolla) Ideology and the Latin American Voter. Prepared for the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 30 Sept 2, New Orleans, LA; and prepared for the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association (SPSA), January 3-5, Orlando, FL. Terrorist Threat and Preferences over Democratic Institutional Arrangements. Paper prepared for presentation at the Latin American Studies Association Congress, May 23-26, 2012, San Francisco, CA. (with Jennifer L. Merolla) The Varying Political Toll of Corruption in Good versus Bad Economic Times. Paper prepared for presentation at the Latin American Studies Association Congress, May 23-26, 2012, San Francisco, CA. (with Daniel Zizumbo-Colunga) Trust Shaken: Earthquake Damage and Interpersonal Trust in Comparative Perspective. Paper prepared for presentation at the 70 h Annual National Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 12-15, 2012, Chicago, IL. (with Ryan E. Carlin and Gregory J. Love) Terror Threat, Emotions, and Information Seeking in a Political Campaign. Paper prepared for presentation at the 70 th Annual National Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 12-15, 2012, Chicago, IL. (with Travis Coan, Jennifer L. Merolla, and Daniel Zizumbo Colunga) Terrorist Threat and the Activation of Masculine Stereotypes on Candidate Evaluations. Paper prepared for presentation at the International Society for Political Psychology (ISPP) Annual Meeting in Istanbul, Turkey; and at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 1-4, 2011, Seattle, WA. (with Mirya R. Holman and Jennifer L. Merolla) Shaking Democracy: The Public Opinion Impact of Chile s 2010 Natural Disaster. Paper prepared for presentation at the 69 th Annual National Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, March 31-April 3, 2011, Chicago, IL. (with Ryan E. Carlin and Gregory J. Love) Terrorism and Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean. Paper prepared for presentation at the 69 th Annual National Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, March 31-April 3, 2011, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL. (Daniel Montalvo and Jennifer L. Merolla) ***Winner of Award for Best Paper in IR at the 2011 MPSA Meeting Mexican Democracy under Threat: Evidence Linking Crime and Economic Crises to Decreased Support for Democracy. Paper presented at the Desafíos de la Política Mexicana: Visiones desde el Barómetro de las Américas Workshop, January 28, 2011 and at the III Latin American WAPOR Congress, April 15-17, 2010, Querétaro, México. (with Jennifer L. Merolla and Evis Mezini) 6

Individual and Contextual Constraints on the Use of Ideological Labels in Latin America. Paper prepared for presentation at the Annual Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, October 6-9, 2010, Toronto, Canada (with Margarita Corral) The Use of Party Labels as Heuristic Shortcuts in Mexico. Paper prepared for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 22-26, 2010, Chicago, IL. (with Jennifer L. Merolla and Laura B. Stephenson) TEACHING Vanderbilt University LAPOP Undergraduate Research Fellow Program, 2011-present Research Design (PSCI355), Fall 2012, Fall 2013 Inter-American Relations (PSCI228), Fall 2011 Public Opinion in Latin America (HNRS186), Spring 2011, Spring 2012 Comparative Political Behavior (PSCI390), Spring 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2012 The Comparative Politics of Bad Times (PSCI370), Spring 2012 Latin American Politics (PSCI217), Fall 2008, Fall 2010 Mexican Politics (PSCI219), Spring 2009 PAVE Pre-College Program, Summer 2012, Summer 2013 University of California, Davis Qualitative Research Methods: Research Design and Implementation (POL216), Fall 2005 Political Research Seminar (POL214A and POL214B), Fall 2006 and Winter 2007 Seminar on Political Behavior in New Democracies (POL290F), Winter 2004 Seminar on Latin American Politics: Democratic Construction and Durability (POL290F), Fall 2004 Mexican Politics (POL179), Fall 2003, Winter 2005, Spring 2006, Winter 2007, Spring 2008 Latin American Politics (POL143), Fall 2004, Fall 2006, Spring 2008 Seminar on Political Behavior in New Democracies (POL196B), Winter 2004, Winter 2005 Duke University Latin American Politics (PS151), Fall 2001 Mexican Politics (PS199), Spring 2003 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Editorial Board Member: Political Behavior, Journal of Politics Associate Editor: Journal of Experimental Political Science Reviewer: American Political Science Review; American Journal of Political Science; British Journal of Political Science; Comparative Political Studies; Comparative Politics; Electoral Studies; Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties; International Political Science Review; International Studies Quarterly; International Studies Perspective; Journal of Conflict Resolution; Journal of Politics; Journal of Politics in Latin America; Latin American Politics and Society; Latin American Research Review; Oxford University Press; National Science Foundation; Party Politics; Political Analysis; Political Behavior; Political Research Quarterly; Political Science Quarterly; Public Choice; Public Opinion Quarterly; TESS; University of Notre Dame Press; World Politics Advisory Board: Routledge Studies on Experimental Political Science Peer Review Committee Member: Americas Quarterly Social Inclusion Project (2011) Panel Discussant: Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Meetings, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013; American Political Science Association (APSA) Meeting, 2007; Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Congress, 2001, 2013; Conference on International Institutions: Global 7

Processes~Domestic Consequences, Association Meeting, 1999 Duke University, 1999; Southwestern Social Science Panel Chair: APSA Meetings 2007, 2011; MPSA Meetings 2004, 2011 Section Chair: Comparative Politics: Political Behavior, MPSA Meeting 2010 Additional Service: Best Dissertation Award Committee, APSA Political Psychology Section (2011-2012); Journal of Politics Best Paper Award Committee (2012) Organizer & Presenter: Desafíos de la Política Mexicana: Visiones desde el Barómetro de las Américas Workshop, CIDE, Mexico City, January 28, 2011; Workshop: Getting the Most out of Large- Scale Survey Projects: Developing and Analyzing LAPOP s AmericasBarometer, LASA, Small Course, May 23, 2012; Mini-Workshop on The Latin American Voter, SPSA, January 5, 2013. Member: American Political Science Association; International Society of Political Psychology; Latin American Studies Association; Midwest Political Science Association; Southern Political Science Association; World Association for Public Opinion Research 8