WORKING PAPERS
"Competing with Executive Aggrandizement? The Politics of the Personalization of Justice and Social Media in Brazil" (Awarded the Best Graduate Student Paper Awards at the Northeastern Political Science Association meeting in the fall of 2024).
"The Politics of Divided Government and Regime Change: Venezuela's Supreme Tribunal of Justice and Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice" (presented at APSA 2022).
"Varieties in The Law of Democracy and Campaign Finance: Courts Between Vertical and Horizontal Accountability in the Presidential Democracies of the U.S. and Brazil"
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PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Chapters and Articles:
Romo Rivas, Mishella and Raul Sanchez-Urribarri. 2024. “An Introduction to the Study of Judicial Decision Making beyond Western Democracies” in Research Handbook on Judicial Politics, eds. Mike Fix and Matt Montgomery. Edward Elgar Research Handbook in Law and Politics Series.
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Anthony Petros Spanakos and Mishella Romo Rivas. forthcoming. “Vulnerable Democracies: Brazil, Venezuela and Concepts in Political Science” Revista Brasileira de Direito. V19 Dossier “Vulnerabilities and Human Rights.”
Anthony Petros Spanakos e Mishella Salomé Romo. 2023.“Brazil, A Pivotal State for a Pivoting US?” In 25 Anos de Política Externa Brasileira: 1995-2021, eds. José Augusto Guilhon Albuquerque e Alexandre Uehara. São Paulo: Fonte Editorial.
Anthony Petros Spanakos and Mishella Salome Romo. 2022. “Social Movement Ideologies and Citizenship in Latin America” Oxford Handbook on Latin American Social Movements, eds. Federico Rossi., Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Anthony Petros Spanakos and Mishella Salome Romo. 2022. "Moving Beyond the One-Shot Orientation: Understanding and Making the Most of Ongoing Orientations" in Strategies for Navigating Graduate School and Beyond, eds. Kevin G. Lorentz II, Daniel J. Mallinson, Julia Marin Hellwege, Davin Phoenix, and J. Cherie Strachan. Washington, DC: American Political Science Association.
Romo, Mishella Salome. 2018. “The Judicialization of Politics and Regime Transition in Dominant Party Systems: Evidence from Venezuela’s Supreme Tribunal of Justice” Journal of Political Inquiry, 46-58.
Romo, Mishella Salome. 2016. “A Counterweight to Populism: Judicial Legitimacy and Popularity in Latin America '' Pi Sigma Alpha Journal of Undergraduate Politics (Spring 2016): 29-47.
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Review Essays:
Anthony Petros Spanakos and Mishella Salome Romo 2020. “Theorizing Revolutionary Political Action of Social Movements During the Pink Tide.” Latin American Perspectives, 47(4): 250–254.
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Mishella Salome Romo and Anthony Petros Spanakos. 2018. “Deep Legality: When Politics Meets the Rule of Law.” Latin American Perspectives 45(6):188-193.
Anthony Petros Spanakos and Mishella Salome Romo. 2017. “Popular Politics in Bolivarian
Venezuela.” Latin American Perspectives 44(1):267-273.
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Book Reviews:
Anthony Petros Spanakos and Mishella Salome Romo. 2018. "Review of China’s Infrastructure Projects in Latin America and the Caribbean: Building Development for a New Era." eds. Dussel Peters, Enrique, Ariel C. Armony, and Shoujun Cui. Asian Studies Center, Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh and Red Académica de América Latina y el Caribe sobre China, 2018. Revista Asia América Latina 4(6):163-168.
Anthony Petros Spanakos and Mishella Salome Romo. 2016. “Review of Jeffrey W. Rubin and Vivienne Bennett, eds., Enduring Reform: Progressive Activism and Private Sector Responses in Latin America's Democracies.” NACLA Report on the Americas. 48(2): 203-204.
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