Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro is the Stanley J. Bernstein Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brown University. Her research has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, the Journal of Latin American Politics and Society, the Journal of Politics, and Latin American Research Review. She was the recipient of the Sage Prize for Best Paper in Comparative Politics presented at the 2011 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Professor Weitz-Shapiro has been a visiting scholar at the Center for Advanced Study in