{"id":8602,"date":"2020-10-25T19:15:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T23:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=8602"},"modified":"2026-02-20T19:17:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:17:39","slug":"taylor-boas","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/profile\/taylor-boas\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Boas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Areas of Specialization:<\/strong><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>Comparative Politics; Latin American Politics; Research Methods<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Taylor Boas is Professor of Political Science and Latin American Studies at Boston University. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame and a Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University.<\/p>\n<p>Boas\u2019s research examines electoral politics and political behavior in Latin America, <span>focusing on topics such as religion, accountability, campaigns, and the mass media<\/span>.<span>\u00a0He is author of <i>Evangelicals and Electoral Politics in Latin America: A Kingdom of This World<\/i> (Cambridge University Press, 2023);\u00a0<\/span><em>Presidential Campaigns in Latin America: Electoral Strategies and Success Contagion<\/em><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span>(Cambridge University Press, 2016); and\u00a0<\/span><em>Open Networks, Closed Regimes: The Impact of the Internet on Authoritarian Rule<\/em><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span>(Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2003). He was co-PI of \u201cAccountability and Incumbent Performance in the Brazilian Northeast,\u201d part of the EGAP Metaketa Initiative on Information and Accountability. He has published articles in<\/span><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em>American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics,<\/em><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span>and<\/span><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em>World Politics, <\/em><span>among other outlets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional information:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/people.bu.edu\/tboas\/Taylor_Boas_CV.pdf\">Curriculum Vitae<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/people.bu.edu\/tboas\/\">Personal Website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18783,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/8602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18783"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/8602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9891,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/8602\/revisions\/9891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/polisci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}