I am Professor of Political Science at Boston University (on sabbatical in 2026--27). My research examines electoral politics, public opinion, and political behavior in Latin America, focusing on topics such as accountability, religion, campaigns, and the mass media. My book Evangelicals and Electoral Politics in Latin America: A Kingdom of This World was published by Cambridge University Press in 2023. My book Presidential Campaigns in Latin America: Electoral Strategies and Success Contagion was published by Cambridge University Press in 2016. Curriculum Vitae Course syllabi: PO 846: Survey Research Methods (Spring 2026) PO 841: Quantitative Research Methods (Fall 2025) PO 561: Latin American Political Parties (Spring 2025) PO 151: Introduction to Comparative Politics (Spring 2023) PO 325: Campaigns and Elections Around the World (Fall 2021) PO 751: Field Seminar in Comparative Politics (Spring 2020) PO 702: Professional Development Seminar (Spring 2020)

Papers and Publications

• Julian O. Boas and Taylor C. Boas, "Motivated Reasoning and Bias in Sports Scandals: A Survey Experiment." Coronavirus Homeschool Working Paper Series no. 1 (April 2020).

• "Who Leads the Flock? Religion and the Radical Right among Brazilian Migrants." Politics and Religion 18, 1 (March 2025): 1-21. Appendix. Replication materials.


• "Religion, Sexuality Politics, and the Transformation of Latin American Electorates" (with Amy Erica Smith). British Journal of Political Science 54, 3 (July 2024): 816-835. Appendix. Replication materials. Winner of the 2025 Seligson Prize for the best scholarship using LAPOP's AmericasBarometer data.


• "Expanding the Public Square: Evangelicals and Electoral Politics in Latin America." In Diana Kapiszewski, Steven Levitsky, and Deborah J. Yashar, eds., The Inclusionary Turn in Latin American Democracies. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021.


• "The Electoral Representation of Evangelicals in Latin America." In Harry E. Vanden and Gary Provost, eds., Oxford Encyclopedia of Latin American Politics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.


• "A representação eleitoral dos evangélicos na América Latina." In José Luis Pérez Guadalupe and Brenda Carranza, eds., Novo ativismo político no Brasil: os evangélicos do século XXI. Rio de Janeiro: Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, 2020.


• "Pastors for Pinochet: Authoritarian Stereotypes and Voting for Evangelicals in Chile." Journal of Experimental Political Science, 3, no. 2 (January 2016). Appendix. Replication materials.


• "Religion and the Latin American Voter" (with Amy Erica Smith). In Ryan Carlin, Matthew Singer, and Elizabeth Zechmeister, eds., The Latin American Voter. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2015. Supplemental materials and replication files for the book.


• "Pastor Paulo vs. Doctor Carlos: Professional Titles as Voting Heuristics in Brazil." Journal of Politics in Latin America, 6, no. 2 (August 2014). Replication materials.

• Taylor C. Boas, F. Daniel Hidalgo, Yuri Kasahara, and Monique Menezes, "Policies Make Politicians: Intermediaries, State Benefits, and Political Entrepreneurship in Brazil." Journal of Politics 86, 4 (October 2024): 1221-1234. Appendix. Replication materials.


• Yuri Kasahara, F. Daniel Hidalgo, Taylor C. Boas, and Virginia Rocha, "Dynastic Partisanship: Oligarchic Political Competition in Brazil." Working paper. Appendix. Pre-registration.

• "Competence versus Priorities: Negative Electoral Responses to Education Quality in Brazil" (with F. Daniel Hidalgo and Guillermo Toral). Journal of Politics 83, no. 4 (October 2021): 1417-1431. Appendix. Replication materials. Pre-registration: field experiment, survey experiment.


• Thad Dunning, Guy Grossman, Macartan Humphreys, Susan Hyde, Craig McIntosh, Gareth Nellis, Claire L. Adida, Eric Arias, Clara Bicalho, Taylor C. Boas, Mark T. Buntaine, Simon Chauchard, Anirvan Chowdhury, Jessica Gottlieb, F. Daniel Hidalgo, Marcus Holmlund, Ryan Jablonski, Eric Kramon, Horacio Larreguy, Malte Lierl, John Marshall, Gwyneth McClendon, Marcus A. Melo, Daniel L. Nielson, Paula M. Pickering, Melina R. Platas, Pablo Querubí­n, Pia Raffler, and Neelanjan Sircar, "Voter information campaigns and political accountability: Cumulative findings from a pre-registered meta-analysis of coordinated trials." Science Advances 5, no. 7 (July 2019): eaaw2612. Appendix. Replication materials. Pre-registration.


• "Norms versus Action: Why Voters Fail to Sanction Malfeasance in Brazil" (with F. Daniel Hidalgo and Marcus André Melo). American Journal of Political Science, 63, no. 2 (April 2019): 385-400. Appendix. Replication materials. Pre-registration.


• "Horizontal But Not Vertical: Accountability Institutions and Electoral Sanctioning in Northeast Brazil" (with F. Daniel Hidalgo and Marcus André Melo). In Thad Dunning, Guy Grossman, Macartan Humphreys, Susan Hyde, Craig McIntosh, and Gareth Nellis, eds., Information, Accountability, and Cumulative Learning: Lessons from Metaketa I. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Appendix. Replication materials. Pre-registration.


• "Electoral Incentives to Combat Mosquito-Borne Illnesses: Experimental Evidence from Brazil" (with F. Daniel Hidalgo). World Development 113 (January 2019): 89-99. Appendix. Replication materials.

• "Attitudes Toward Homosexuality in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean" (with Caden Browne). Prepared for inclusion in Mandi Bates Bailey, Andrew Flores, and Steven P. Nawara, LGBTQ+ Politics: The United States in Global Context. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.


• "Activist Disconnect: Social Movements, Public Opinion, and U.S. Military Bases in East Asia" (with Claudia J. Kim). Armed Forces and Society 46, no. 4 (October 2020). Appendix. Replication materials. Pre-registration.


• "Looks Like Me, Thinks Like Me: Descriptive Representation and Opinion Congruence in Brazil" (with Amy Erica Smith). Latin American Research Review 54, no. 2 (June 2019). Appendix. Replication materials.

• "Voting for Democracy: Campaign Effects in Chile's Democratic Transition." Latin American Politics and Society, 57, no. 2 (Summer 2015). Appendix. Replication materials.


• "The Spoils of Victory: Campaign Donations and Government Contracts in Brazil" (with F. Daniel Hidalgo and Neal P. Richardson). Journal of Politics 76, no. 2 (April 2014). Appendix. Replication materials.
• An earlier version was published as Working Paper 379 (August 2011), Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame. Coverage in O Globo.


• "Varieties of Electioneering: Success Contagion and Presidential Campaigns in Latin America." World Politics 62, no. 4 (October 2010).


• "Chile: Promoting the Personal Connection--The Internet and Presidential Election Campaigns." In Stephen Ward, Diana Owen, Richard Davis, and David Taras, eds., Making a Difference: A Comparative View of the Role of the Internet in Election Politics. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008.

• "Mass Media and Politics in Latin America." In Jorge I. Domínguez and Michael Shifter, eds., Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America, 4th ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.


• "Controlling the Airwaves: Incumbency Advantage and Community Radio in Brazil" (with F. Daniel Hidalgo). American Journal of Political Science 55, no. 4 (October 2011). Supporting information. Replication materials.


• "Television and Neopopulism in Latin America: Media Effects in Brazil and Peru." Latin American Research Review 40, no. 2 (June 2005).

• "Who Participates in Focus Groups? Diagnosing Self-Selection." PS: Political Science & Politics 57, 3 (July 2024): 384-389. Appendix. Replication materials.


• "Recruiting Large Online Samples in the United States and India: Facebook, Mechanical Turk and Qualtrics" (with Dino P. Christenson and David M. Glick). Political Science Research and Methods 8, no. 2 (April 2020). Appendix. Replication materials. Pre-registration.
  


• "Potential Mistakes, Plausible Options: Establishing the Legacy of Hypothesized Critical Junctures." Qualitative & Multi-Method Research 15, no. 1 (Spring 2017).
  


• "Fielding Complex Online Surveys using rApache and Qualtrics" (with F. Daniel Hidalgo). The Political Methodologist 20, no. 2 (Spring 2013).
  


• "Neoliberalism: From New Liberal Philosophy to Anti-Liberal Slogan" (with Jordan Gans-Morse). Studies in Comparative International Development 44, no. 2 (Summer 2009). Coverage in the New York Times.


• "Conceptualizing Continuity and Change: The Composite-Standard Model of Path Dependence." Journal of Theoretical Politics 19, no. 1 (January 2007).
  


• Review of Politics in Time, by Paul Pierson. Journal of Politics 70, no. 1 (January 2008).

• "Weaving the Authoritarian Web: The Control of Internet Use in Non-Democratic Regimes." In John Zysman and Abraham Newman, eds., How Revolutionary Was the Digital Revolution? National Responses, Market Transitions, and Global Technology. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006.


• The Digital Revolution and International Development (edited with Thad Dunning). A special issue of Studies in Comparative International Development, 40, no. 2 (Summer 2005).
• Taylor Boas and Thad Dunning, "Classic Questions, New Context: Development in an Era of Bits and Bytes" (pp. 3-8).
• Taylor Boas, Thad Dunning, and Jennifer Bussell, "Will the Digital Revolution Revolutionize Development? Drawing Together the Debate" (pp. 95-110).


• "Weaving the Authoritarian Web." Current History 103, no. 677 (December 2004).
  


• "Technology, Freedom, and Democracy: An Evolving Debate." APSA-CP: Newsletter of the Organized Section in Comparative Politics of the American Political Science Association 15, no. 1: 18-23 (Winter 2004).
  
  
• "Falun Gong and the Internet: Evangelism, Community, and Struggle for Survival" (with Mark R. Bell). Nova Religio 6, no. 2 (April 2003): 277-293.
  
  
• Open Networks, Closed Regimes: The Impact of the Internet on Authoritarian Rule (with Shanthi Kalathil). Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2003.
  


• "The Dictator's Dilemma? The Internet and U.S. Policy toward Cuba." The Washington Quarterly 23, no. 3 (Summer 2000): 57-67.