Eduardo J. Gomez


Department of Political Science
Brown University
Box 1844, 36 Prospect Street
Providence, RI 02912
(401) 751-6038
Email: edgomez@brown.edu





Education

Brown University, PhD in Political Science (expected, 2007)
University of Chicago, AM in International Relations (w/Honors, 2001)
University of Virginia, BA and MA in Politics (1997)

Military Service

U.S. Air Force (1992-1994)

Publications:

Articles (**peer reviewed):

2007 **"A Temporal Analytical Approach to Decentralization Processes: Lessons from Brazil," Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law (forthcoming, March 2008)

2003 **"Decentralization and Municipal Governance: Suggested Methodological Approaches for Cross-Regional Analysis," in Studies in Comparative International Development (38:3), November 2003

2007 **“Bureaucratizing Epidemics: The Challenge of Institutional Bias in the United States and Brazil,” Journal of Global Health Governance (Inaugural Edition, Volume 1, #1; in press)

2007 “Why Brazil Responded to AIDS and not Tuberculosis: Perceptions, Institutions, and Policy,” ReVista: The Harvard Review of Latin America (March, 2007)

2007. "Responding to AIDS in Brazil: Institutional and Policy Lessons," in Coker R, Atun R, McKee M (eds) Health Systems and Communicable Diseases: Challenges to Transitional Societies. (Buckingham: McGraw Hill Press)

2007“Friendly Government, Cruel Society: AIDS, Gay Politics, and Collective Action in Brazil,” in Javier Corrales (ed) Homosexual Politics in Latin America (invited book chapter; contract offered by the University of Pittsburgh Press, in process of being signed)

2006 ** “The Politics of Government Response to HIV/AIDS in Russia and Brazil: Historical Institutionalism, Culture, and State Capacity,” Working Paper #4, Harvard Initiative for Global Health; you may find this article at: http://www.globalhealth.harvard.edu/documents/WorkingPaper4.pdf

2006 **“Learning from the Past: State Building and the Politics of AIDS Policy Reform in Brazil,” Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, Volume VII, No. 1, Winter-Spring 2006

2007 ** "Understanding Decentralization: The Need for a Broader Approach," (Introduction) with Paul Smoke and George Peterson, Decentralization in Asia and Latin America: Towards a Comparative Inter-Disciplinary Perspective (Edward Elgar Press, 2007)

2007 ** "The Institutional Genesis of Fiscal Decentralization Management: Lessons from Brazil," (Chapter 7) in Smoke, Gómez, and Peterson, Decentralization in Asia and Latin America: Towards a Comparative Inter-Disciplinary Perspective (Edward Elgar Press, 2007)

2007 ** "Decentralization’s Horizontal, Vertical and Policy-Fluctuation Mechanisms: Method for Cross-Regional Comparative Analysis," (Chapter 3) in Smoke, Gómez and Peterson, Decentralization in Asia and Latin America: Towards a Comparative Inter-Disciplinary Perspective (Edward Elgar Press, 2007)

2007 ** “Decentralization in Asia and Latin America: Processes, Outcomes, and Underlying Dynamics,” (Concluding chapter), with Paul Smoke, Decentralization in Asia and Latin America: Towards a Comparative Inter-Disciplinary Perspective (Edward Elgar Press, 2007)

2007 “Comparing Hurricane Katrina to Japan’s Kobe Earthquake: Policy and Institutional Lessons,” (with Takashi Nagata, Paul Campbell, Stephanie Rosborough, and Joshua Frances) Disasters: The Journal of Disaster Studies & Policy Management (rivise and resubmit)

2006 "The Politics of Government Response to HIV/AIDS in Russia and Brazil," Harvard Initiative for Global Health, Working Papers Series, No. 4; http://www.globalhealth.harvard.edu/workingpapers.html

Books: 2007 Decentralization in Asia and Latin America: Towards a Comparative Inter-Disciplinary Perspective, co-edited book, with Paul Smoke and George Peterson (Edward Elgar Press, 2007)