Julie Anne Weaver
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About Julie
Dr. Weaver studies comparative politics, with a focus on democracy and accountability, particularly in the Global South. Her newest work studies gender and accountability. She was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies and earned her PhD from Harvard’s Government Department.
Contributions
Grant Terminated: Democracy Research
Publications
Combines local-level electoral returns in Chile and Peru with detailed data on how mayors perform in responding to a variety of natural catastrophes, finding that voters do in fact reward local politicians that effectively manage disasters, providing a blueprint for how to best incentivize disaster responsiveness going forward.
Describes a new type of breakdown in electoral accountability, whereby voters come to doubt the continuation of good performance in a second term, leading them to prefer churning out incumbents in favor of challengers, unless complementary horizontal accountability mechanisms are strong.