Taylor Boas

Taylor Boas joined the department and Boston University in 2009 after receiving his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.  During the 2009-2010 academic year, he was on leave from BU as a Visiting Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame.

Boas’s research and teaching focus on comparative politics, Latin American politics, methodology, political communication, electoral campaigns, and political behavior. He is presently working on a book manuscript on the evolution of presidential campaign strategies in Chile, Brazil, and Peru since their transitions to democracy. His publications include articles in World Politics, Studies in Comparative International Development, Journal of Theoretical Politics, and Latin American Research Review.  He is also co-author of Open Networks, Closed Regimes: The Impact of the Internet on Authoritarian Rule (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2003).