BOOK

Alison E. Post. 2014. Foreign and Domestic Investment in Argentina: The Politics of Privatized Infrastructure. New York:  Cambridge University Press.

Reviewed in Bulletin of Latin American Research, Environment & Urbanization, Governance, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Latin American Studies, Latin American Politics & Society, Perspectives on Politics, Urban Studies

JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE

“The Politics of Urban Informality: Innovations in Theory and Research Design from the City’s Margins.”  2018. Special issue for Studies in Comparative International Development.  53(3). (Adam Auerbach, Adrienne LeBas, Alison E. Post and Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro, editors)

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Alison E. Post and Nicholas Kuipers. Forthcoming. “City Size and Public Service Access: Evidence from Brazil and Indonesia.” Perspectives on Politics.

Marple, Tim, Alison E. Post, and Karen Trapenberg Frick. “Never Waste a Crisis: How Covid-19 Lockdowns and Message Sources Affect the Efficacy of Emergency Preparedness Recommendations.” 2022. Natural Hazards Review.

Tanu Kumar, Alison E. Post, Isha Ray, Megan Otsuka, and Francesc Pardo-Bosch. “From Public Service Access to Service Quality: The Distribution of Piped Water in Bangalore.” 2022. World Development. 151.

Veronica Herrera and Alison E. Post. “The Case for Policy Expertise in Political Science.” 2019.  PS: Political Science and Politics. 52(3): 476-480.

Alison E. Post, Anustubh Agnihotri and Christopher Hyun. “Using Crowd-Sourced Data to Study Public Services: Insights from Urban India.” 2018. Studies in Comparative International Development. 53(3): 324-342. 

Adam Auerbach, Adrienne LeBas, Alison E. Post, and Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro. “State, Society, and Informality in Cities of the Global South.” 2018.  Studies in Comparative International Development.  53(3): 261-280.

Tanu Kumar, Alison E. Post, and Isha Ray. “Flows, Leaks, and Blockages in Informational Interventions: A Field Experimental Study of Bangalore’s Water Sector.” 2018.  World Development. 106: 149-160. Media coverage:

• USAID Blog, Blum Center for Developing Economies blog, U.C. Berkeley

Alison E. Post. “Cities and Politics in the Developing World.” 2018. The Annual Review of Political Science. Vol. 21: 115-133.

Christopher Hyun, Alison E. Post, and Isha Ray. “Frontline Worker Compliance with Transparency Reforms: Barriers Posed by Family and Financial Responsibilities.” 2018.  Governance. 31: 65-83. Media Coverage:

• Berkeley News Center, Bangalore Mirror 

Alison E. Post, Vivian Bronsoler, and Lana Salman. “Hybrid Regimes for Local Public Goods Provision: A Framework for Analysis.” 2017.  Perspectives on Politics. 15(4): 952-966.

Hernán Flom and Alison E. Post. “Blame Avoidance and Policy Stability in Developing Democracies:  Security Policy in Buenos Aires.”  2016. Comparative Politics. 49(1): 23-46.

Alison E. Post and María Victoria Murillo. “How Investor Portfolios Shape Regulatory Outcomes: Privatized Infrastructure After Crises.” 2016. World Development. 77: 328-345. 

Tomás Bril Mascarenhas and Alison E. Post. “Policy Traps: Consumer Subsidies in Post-Crisis Argentina.” 2015. Studies in Comparative International Development. 50(1): 98-120.

• Updated version in Spanish in Desarrollo Económico Vol. 54, No. 213: 171-202 (Sept.-Dec. 2014).
• Selected for inclusion in the NSF’s “Qualitative Data Repository” pilot project
• Profiled in Argentina’s leading newspaper, La Nación
• Featured in the Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies

Veronica Herrera and Alison E. Post. “Can Developing Countries both Decentralize and Depoliticize Urban Water Services?  Assessing the Legacy of the 1990s Reform Wave.” 2014. World Development. 46: 621-641.

Alison E. Post. “Home Court Advantage:  Investor Type and Contractual Resilience in the Argentine Water Sector.” 2014. Politics & Society.  42(1): 107-132.

Alison E. Post. “Pathways for Redistribution:  Privatization, Regulation, and Incentives for Pro-Poor Investment in the Argentine Water Sector.” 2009.  International Journal of Public Policy. Vol.4, No. 1/2, pp. 51-75.

• Featured in Monkey Cage (September 24, 2015)

CHAPTERS

Alison E. Post. Forthcoming. “The Role of Comparison in Urban Political Science.” For Le Gales, Patrick and Jennifer Robinson, eds. Handbook of Comparative Urban Studies. Routledge. 

Christopher Hyun, Tanu Kumar, Alison E. Post, and Isha Ray. Forthcoming. “Engineering Predictable Water? How to understand the humans that make tech innovations work.” In Ashok Gadgil, ed. An Introduction to Development Engineering. Springer Press. 

Alison E. Post and Isha Ray. 2020. “Hybrid Modes of Urban Water Delivery in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science.  Oxford University Press.

Christopher Carter and Alison E. Post. 2019. “Decentralization and Urban Governance: Evidence To-Date and Avenues for Future Research” in Decentralized Governance and Accountability: Academic Research and the Future of Donor Programming. Jonathan Rodden and Erik Wibbels, eds. Cambridge University Press.

Alison E. Post. 2014. “The Politics of ‘Contracting Out’ to the Private Sector: The Case of Water and Sanitation in Latin America.” In Melani Cammett and Lauren MacLean, eds. The Politics of Nonstate Social Welfare Provision in the Global South.  Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, pp. 77-97.

María Victoria Murillo and Alison E. Post. 2013. “The Regulatory State Under Stress:  Economic Shocks and Regulatory Bargaining in the Argentine Electricity and Water Sectors.” In Navroz Dubash and Bronwen Morgan, eds.  The Rise of the Regulatory State of the South: Infrastructure and Development in Emerging Economies. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 115-134. 

Alison E. Post. “The Poisson Distribution.” 2003. The Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods, Michael Lewis-Beck et al. eds., Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

REVIEWS

Alison E. Post. Forthcoming. “Informality and Politics in the Global South: Three Perspectives.”  Perspectives on Politics.  

Alison E. Post. 2011. Review of “Political Competition, Partisanship and Policy Making in Latin American Public Utilities” by María Victoria Murillo (2009).  Political Studies Quarterly.

Alison E. Post. 2010. Review of “The Political Economy of Water and Sanitation,” by Matthias Krause. Governance. 23(2):  365-368.