Publications
Books
Journal Articles
Last 5 years:
“Follow the Money: Gender, Incumbency, and Campaign Funding in Chile.” Comparative Political Studies. On-line first (July 1, 2021) https://doi.org/10.1177/00104140211024300
“Chile’s Constitutional Moment” Current History, 120: 823 (February 2021): 43-50, with Jennifer Piscopo.
“Crisis of Representation in Chile? The Institutional Connection,” Journal of Politics in Latin America, 3 (2016): 61-93.
“Cabinets and Informal Advisory Networks in Multiparty Presidential Systems,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, 46:3 (2016): 569-591.
MORE JOURNAL ARTICLES
“Crisis of Representation in Chile? The Institutional Connection,” Journal of Politics in Latin America, 3 (2016): 61-93.
“Cabinets and Informal Advisory Networks in Multiparty Presidential Systems,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, 46:3 (2016): 569-591.
“Here's the Bias! A (Re-) Reassessment of the Chilean Electoral System,” Electoral Studies 40 (2015): 268-279, with John Polga-Hecimovich.
“Ni Chicha ni Limoná: Party Nationalization in Pre-and Post-Authoritarian Chile,” Party Politics, 20 (2014): 751-766, with Scott Morgenstern and John Polga-Hecimovich.
“Seven Imperatives for Improving the Measurement of Party Nationalization with Evidence from Chile,” Electoral Studies, 33 (2014): 186-199, with Scott Morgenstern and John Polga-Hecimovich.
“Chile’s Student Protests: The Original Sin of Educational Policy,” Revista: Harvard Review of Latin America, XII:1 (Fall 2012): 74-77.
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“Endogenizing Legislative Candidate Selection Procedures in Nascent Democracies: Evidence from Spain and Chile,” Democratization, 18:3 (2011): 797-822, with Bonnie Field.
“Did Success Spoil the Concertación?” Americas Quarterly, 4:2 (Spring 2010): 28-32.
“Elite-Mass Congruence, Partidocracia and the Quality of Chilean Democracy,” Journal of Politics in Latin America, 1:3 (2009): 3-31.
“Enclaves de la transición y la democracia chilena,” Revista de Ciencia Política, 29:1 (2009): 3-21.
“Bachelet’s Chile: Business as Usual?” Global Dialogue, 10 (2009): 79-89.
“Candidate Selection and Recruitment in Latin America: A Framework for Analysis,” Latin American Politics and Society, 50:4 (Winter 2008): 27-58, with Scott Morgenstern.
“Candidate Selection Procedures in Transitional Politics: A Research Note,” Party Politics, 14:5 (2008): 619-638, with Bonnie Field.
“How New is Bachelet’s Chile?” Current History, 106: 697 (February 2007): 70-76.
“Electoral Reform Doesn’t Matter—or Does it?: A Moderate PR System for Chile,” Revista de Ciencia Política, 26:1 (2006): 216-225.
“Insurance for Good Losers and the Survival of Chile’s Concertación,” Latin American Politics and Society, 47:2 (Summer 2005): 1-22, with John Carey. [Published in Spanish as, "El seguro para los subcampeones electorales y la sobrevivencia de la Concertación," Estudios Públicos, 90 (Fall, 2003): 5-27, with John Carey.]
“Los peligros de la ingeniería electoral (y de predecir sus efectos),” Política, 45 (Spring 2005): 9-28.
“Electoral System, Coalitional Disintegration and Democracy in Chile,” Latin American Research Review, 40:1 (2005): 56-82. [Published in Spanish as, “Sistema electoral, desintegración de coaliciones y democracia en Chile: ¿El fin de la Concertación?” Revista de Ciencia Política, 24:1 (2004): 58-80.]
“Democracy, Institutions, and Political Parties in Latin America,” (Review Essay) Latin American Research Review, 39:2 (2004): 275-290.
“The Hidden Logic of Candidate Selection for Chilean Parliamentary Elections,” Comparative Politics, 34:4 (July 2002): 419-438. [Revised and updated version published in Spanish as, “La lógica oculta de la selección de candidatos en las elecciones parlamentarias chilenas,” Estudios Públicos, 98 (Fall 2005): 189-225.]
“Coalitions, Voters and Party System Transformation in Post-Authoritarian Chile,” Government and Opposition, 37:1 (Winter 2002): 76-105.
“Continuidad y transformación en el sistema de partidos chilenos: Sobre los cambios ocasionados por el sistema electoral,” Revista de Ciencia Política, 20:2 (Spring 2001): 82-102.
“Disconnected Fire Alarms and Ineffective Police Patrols: Legislative Oversight in Post-Authoritarian Chile,” Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, 42:1 (Spring 2000): 71-98.
“Continuity and Change in the Chilean Party System: On the Transformational Effects of Electoral Reform,” Comparative Political Studies, 30:6 (December 1997): 651-674. [Reprinted in Jorge Domínguez, ed. Mexico, Central and South America: New Perspectives, Vol. 4, Political Parties (New York: Routledge, 2001): 63-86.
"Nuevos argumentos y viejos supuestos: Simulaciones de sistemas electorales alternativos," Estudios Públicos, 51 (Winter 1993): 229-267.
"Ley electoral y estabilidad democrática: Un ejercicio de simulación para el caso de Chile," Estudios Públicos, 43 (Winter 1991): 27-87, with Arturo Valenzuela.
Book Chapters
In Press and Forthcoming:
Book Chapter, “The Representational Paradox of Cabinet Sharing in Minority Governments: Formal and Informal Organization of the Executive Branch in Chile,” in Jorge Lanzaro, ed. Reinforcing Leadership: Presidential Centers in Latin America, Spain and USA (Forthcoming, Fall 2021, New York: Palgrave Macmillan).
Last 5 years:
“Political Representation in Chile: Electoral Institutions, Elites and Voters,” in André Freire, Mélany Barragán, Xavier Coller, Marco Lisi, Emmanouil Tsatsanis, eds. Political Representation in Southern Europe and Latin America: Before and After the Great Recession and the Commodity Crisis (New York: Routledge, 2020):207-225.
“Más allá de lo formal, el castigo y las sanciones: Supervisión legislativa en Chile,” in Rodrigo Velázquez, ed. Supervisión legislativa del poder ejecutivo en América Latina (Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2019): 106-158.
“El centro presidencial en Chile. Instituciones formales y redes informales,” in Jorge Lanzaro, ed. Centro Presidencial. Presidencias y Centros de Gobierno en América Latina, Estados Unidos y Europa (Madrid: Tecnos, 2018): 157-193.
“Chile: From Democracy to Dictatorship and Back,” in Harvey Kline, Christina Wade and Howard Wiarda, eds. Latin American Politics and Development, Ninth Edition (New York: Westview Press, 2018): 141-168.
“Elite-Mass Congruence in Chile” in Alfredo Joignant, Mauricio Morales, and Claudio Fuentes, eds. Malaise in Representation in Latin America, eds. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017): 93-118.
MORE BOOK CHAPTERS
“Elite-Mass Congruence in Chile” in Alfredo Joignant, Mauricio Morales, and Claudio Fuentes, eds. Malaise in Representation in Latin America, eds. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017): 93-118.
“Bachelet is Back: Reform Prospects and the Future of Democracy in Chile,” in Georgina Waylen, ed. Gender, Institutions, and Change in Bachelet’s Chile, (London: Palgrave Publishers, 2016): 39-66.
“Enclaves of the Transition and Chilean Democracy,” in State University of St. Petersburg, ed. Rusia y Iberoamerica en el mundo globalizante: Proceedings of the Second International Forum on Russia and Iberoamerica (St. Petersburg: State University of St. Petersburg, 2016): 825-843.
“The Presidentialization of Politics in Chile,” in Gianluca Passarelli, ed. The Presidentialization of Politics in Latin America, (London: Palgrave Publishers, 2015): 26-48, with Bonnie Field.
“Executive-Legislative Relations and Democracy in Latin America,” in Richard Millett, Jennifer Holmes, and Orlando Pérez, eds. Latin American Democracy: Emerging Reality or Endangered Species? Second Edition. (New York: Routledge, 2015): 93-111.
“Chile: Ministerial Selection and De-selection” in Keith Dowding and Patrick Dumont, eds. The Selection of Ministers around the World, with Humberto Baruch Galván (London and New York: Routledge, 2014) 244-263.
“Chile: The Right’s Evolution from Democracy to Authoritarianism and Back Again” in Juan Pablo Luna and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, eds. The Resilience of the Latin American Right, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014) 242-267.
“Political and Economic Life Under the Rainbow,” in Peter Siavelis and Kirsten Sehnbruch, eds. Democratic Chile: The Politics and Policies of an Historic Coalition, 1990-2010. (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Press, January 2014): 1-14, with Kirsten Sehnbruch. [Published in Spanish as “La vida política y económica bajo el arcoíris,” in Peter Siavelis and Kirsten Sehnbruch, eds. El Balance: Política y políticas de la Concertación, 1990-2010 (Santiago de Chile, Editorial Catalonia, 2014): 19- 28 with Kirsten Sehnbruch.]
“From a Necessary to a Permanent Coalition,” in Peter Siavelis and Kirsten Sehnbruch, eds. Democratic Chile: The Politics and Policies of an Historic Coalition, 1990-2010. (In Press, Boulder: Lynne Rienner Press, January 2014), 15-43. [Published in Spanish as “De una coalición necesaria a una permanente,” in Peter Siavelis and Kirsten Sehnbruch, eds. El Balance: Política y políticas de la Concertación 1990-2010 (Santiago de Chile, Editorial Catalonia, 2014): 31-53.]
“The Future of the Rainbow Coalition,” in Peter Siavelis and Kirsten Sehnbruch, eds. Democratic Chile: The Politics and Policies of an Historic Coalition, 1990-2010. (In Press, Boulder: Lynne Rienner Press, January 2014): 305-330, with Kirsten Sehnbruch. [Published in Spanish as “El futuro de la coalición del arcoíris,” in Peter Siavelis and Kirsten Sehnbruch, eds. El Balance: Política y políticas de la Concertación 1990-2010, (Santiago de Chile, Editorial Catalonia, 2014): 283-302.]
“El éxito del presidencialismo en Chile: gabinetes, asesores y demás,” in Martin Alessandro, ed. La dinámica del poder ejecutivo en América Latina. (Buenos Aires: National Institute of Public Administration, 2013):
“Chile: Beyond Transitional Models of Politics,” in Michael Shifter and Jorge Domínguez, eds. Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America—3rd Edition. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013): 204-232.
“El Poder ejecutivo y la presidencia en Chile: Organización formal e informal,” in Jorge Lanzaro, ed. El presidencialismo latinoamericano y el parlamentarismo europeo "cara a cara" (Madrid: Centro de Estudios Constitucionales de España, 2013): 133-161.
“Immigration: The Invisible Immigration Rally,” in David Coates, ed. Pursuing the Progressive Case (Bloomington: iUniverse, 2013): 151-166, with David Coates.
“La selección de candidatos para el poder legislativo en América Latina: de dónde venimos y nuevos caminos de investigación,” in Manuel Alcántara and Mercedes García, eds. Algo más que presidentes. El papel del poder legislativo en América Latina (Madrid: Editorial Fundación Manuel Giménez Abad, 2011): 61-84, with Bonnie Field
Prologue, “En el nombre de la razón: Tecnócratas y política en Chile” by Patricio Silva (Santiago: Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales, 2010): i-iv.
“What it Takes to Win and What it Takes to Govern: Michelle Bachelet and the Concertación,” in Sylvia Bortzusky and Greg Weeks, eds. The Bachelet Government and the Future of Democracy in Chile (Coral Gables, FL: The University of Florida Press, 2010): 27-49.
“Consecuencias intencionales e involuntarias de la reforma electoral: seis lecciones de Chile,” in Igor Vivero, ed. Democracia y reformas políticas en México y América Latina (México City: UAEM, 2010): 171-198.
“Procedimientos de selección de candidatos en las democracias nacientes,” in Flavia Friedenberg and Manuel Alcántara, eds. Selección de candidatos, política partidista y rendimiento democrático (México City: UNAM, 2009): 61-84, with Bonnie Field.
“Introduction,” in David Coates and Peter Siavelis, eds. Getting Immigration Right: What Every American Needs to Know (Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2009): 1-14, with David Coates.
“Beyond Push and Pull: Neoliberalism, NAFTA, Immigration Policy and the Structural Incentives for Mexican Immigration,” in David Coates and Peter Siavelis, eds. Getting Immigration Right: What Every American Needs to Know (Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2009): 97-114.
“Executive-Legislative Relations and Democracy in Latin America,” in Richard Millett, Jennifer Holmes, and Orlando Pérez, eds. Latin American Democracy: Emerging Reality or Endangered Species? (New York: Routledge, 2009): 101-118.
“Political Recruitment and Candidate Selection in Latin America: A Framework for Analysis,” in Peter Siavelis and Scott Morgenstern, eds. Pathways to Power: Political Recruitment and Candidate Selection in Latin America (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008): 3-37, with Scott Morgenstern. [Published in Spanish as “Reclutamiento político, selección de candidatos y democracia en América Latina,” in Flavia Friedenberg and Manuel Alcántara, eds. Selección de candidatos, política partidista y rendimiento democrático (México City: UNAM, 2009): 85-130, with Scott Morgenstern.]
“Pathways to Power and Democracy in Latin America,” in Peter Siavelis and Scott Morgenstern, eds. Pathways to Power: Political Recruitment and Candidate Selection in Latin America (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008): 371-402, with Scott Morgenstern.
“Chile: The End of the Unfinished Transition,” in Michael Shifter and Jorge Domínguez, eds. Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008): 177-208.
“Accommodating Informal Institutions and Chilean Democracy,” in Gretchen Helmke and Steven Levitsky, eds. Informal Institutions and Democracy: Lessons from Latin America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006): 33-55.
“Election Insurance and Coalition Survival” in Gretchen Helmke and Steven Levitsky, eds. Informal Institutions and Democracy: Lessons from Latin America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006): 160-178, with John Carey.
“Political Recruitment, Candidate Selection, and the Performance of Democratic Regimes,” in César Arias and Beatriz Ramacciotti, eds. Presidencialismo y parlamentarismo en América Latina (Washington, DC: The Organization of American States, 2005): 117-125.
“Party and Social Structure,” in Richard Katz and William Crotty, eds. Handbook of Political Parties (London: Sage, 2005): 359-370.
“Chile: The Unexpected (and Expected) Consequences of Electoral Engineering,” in Michael Gallagher and Paul Mitchell, eds. The Politics of Electoral Systems (London: Oxford University Press, 2005): 433-452.
“Chile: A Strong State,” in Peter Burnell and Vicki Randall, eds. Politics in the Developing World (London: Oxford University Press, 2005): 297-307.
“Santiago: Municipal Decentralization in a Centralized Political System,” in Henry Dietz and David Meyers, eds. Capital City Politics in Latin America: Democratization and Empowerment Municipal (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Press, 2002): 265-296, with Esteban Valenzuela and Giorgio Martelli.
“Exaggerated Presidentialism and Moderate Presidents: Executive/Legislative Relations in Chile,” in Scott Morgenstern and Benito Nacif , eds. Legislative Politics in Latin America (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002): 79-113.
“Continuidad y transformación del sistema de partidos en una transición ‘modelo’,” in Paul Drake and Iván Jaksic, eds. El modelo chileno: Democracia y desbollo en los noventa (Santiago: LOM ediciones, 1999): 223-260.
“Executive-Legislative Relations in Post-Pinochet Chile: A Preliminary Assessment," in Matthew Shugart and Scott Mainwaring, eds. Presidentialism and Democracy in Latin America (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997): 321-362. [Revised and updated Spanish version published as, “Relaciones ejecutivos-legislativos en la nueva democracia chilena,” in Jorge Lanzaro, ed. Tipos de presidencialismo y coaliciones políticas en América Latina (Buenos Aires: CLACSO, 2001): 203-250.]
"Electoral Engineering and Democratic Stability: The Legacy of Authoritarian Rule in Chile," in Carlos Waisman and Arend Lijphart, eds. Institutional Design in New Democracies (Boulder CO: Westview Press, 1996): 77-99, with Arturo Valenzuela. [Published in Spanish as “Ley electoral y estabilidad democrática: Un ejercicio de simulación para el caso de Chile a partir de las elecciones de 1989,” in Rodolfo Cerdas, et al, eds. Una tarea inconclusa: Elecciones y democracia en América Latina (San José, Costa Rica: IIDH-CAPEL, 1992): 533-576, with Arturo Valenzuela.]
Book Reviews, Review Essays, Working Papers, Research Reports, and Encyclopedia Entries
Last 5 years:
Review of El sistema político de Chile, eds. Carlos Huneeus and Octavio Avendaño, (Santiago: LOM, 2018) in Latin American Politics and Society, 63(2) (2021): 161-164. doi:10.1017/lap.2021.11
Review Essay, “Recipes for Political Party Success… and Failure,” Latin American Research Review 55(4), pp. 850–858. DOI
Review Essay. “Political Recruitment and Candidate Selection in Latin America,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, Eds. Harry Vanden and Gary Prevost. New York: Oxford University Press, with Scott Morgenstern (September 2020): 220-234, with Scott Morgenstern.
Review Essay, “Recruitment and Selection for Elected Office,” Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science, Ed. Sandy Maisel. New York: Oxford University Press, with Scott Morgenstern (April 2019): 291-305.
Review Essay, “Chile: Politics and Government,” Handbook of Latin American Studies, Washington, DC: The Library of Congress (Vol. 73: Spring 2019): 291-305.
MORE BOOK REVIEWS, REVIEW ESSAYS, WORKING PAPERS, RESEARCH REPORTS, AND ENCYLOPEDIA ENTRIES
Review Essay, “Chile: Politics and Government,” Handbook of Latin American Studies, Washington, DC: The Library of Congress (Vol. 71: Spring 2016): 97-114.
Review of The Success of The Left In Latin America, by Rosario Queirolo in Democratization, 23:2 (2016): 370-372, with John Polga-Hecimovich.
Review Essay, “Chile: Politics and Government,” Handbook of Latin American Studies, Washington, DC: The Library of Congress (Vol. 69: Spring 2015): 288-300.
Review of Democracy in Latin America: Between Hope and Despair, by Ignacio Walker (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013), in Latin American Politics and Society (57:4 Winter 2015): 162-164.
Review of The Politics of Memory in Chile: From Pinochet to Bachelet, eds. Cath Collins, Katherine Hite, and Alfredo Joignant (Boulder, CO, and London: First Forum Press, 2013), in Journal of Latin American Studies 47 (2014): 192-194.
Review of Secretos de la Concertación: Recuerdos para el futuro, by Carlos Ominami (Santiago: La Tercera Ediciones, 2011) in Americas Quarterly, 6:3 (Summer 2012): 129-131, with María de los Ángeles Fernández.
Review Essay, “Chile: Politics and Government,” Handbook of Latin American Studies, Washington, DC: The Library of Congress (Vol. 67: Spring 2012): 270-283.
Encyclopedia Entry, “Immigration: Domestic Consequences of” in Oxford Companion to American Politics ed. David Coates, (New York: Oxford University Press, Fall 2012): 513-516.
Encyclopedia Entry, “Mexico” in Oxford Companion to American Politics ed. David Coates, (New York: Oxford University Press, Fall 2012): 109-112, with Linda Hall.
Review of The Dictator’s Shadow: A Political Memoir, by Heraldo Muñoz (New York: Basic Books, 2008) in Journal of Third World Studies, 28:1 (Spring 2011): 315-317.
Review of Democratic Governance in Latin America, by Scott Mainwarning and Timothy R. Scully (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010) in Política y Gobierno, (Fall 2011).
Review of The Voter’s Dilemma and Democratic Accountability, by Mona Lyne (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2001) in Perspectives on Politics 9:3 (2011): 744.
Encyclopedia Entry, “Binomial System,” in International Encyclopedia of Political Science, ed. George Currian, (Washington, DC: CQ Press, Fall 2011).
Encyclopedia Entry, “Party and Social Structure,” in International Encyclopedia of Political Science, ed. George Currian, (Washington, DC: CQ Press, Fall 2011).
Review Essay, “Chile: Political Economy,” Handbook of Latin American Studies, Washington, DC: The Library of Congress (Vol. 65: Fall 2010): 451-457.
Working Paper, “The Determinants of Candidate Selection Procedures in New Democracies: Evidence from Spain (1977-1982) and Chile (1989-2005),” Law Faculty, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Madrid, Spain, November 2009, No. 109, with Bonnie Field.
Review of El Díscolo by Patricio Navia (Santiago, Chile: Random House Monadori, 2009) in Americas Quarterly, on-line exclusive (November 2009). http://www.americasquarterly.org/node/1077/
Review of In the Name of Reason: Technocrats and Politics in Chile by Patricio Silva (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008) in Latin American Politics and Society, 51:4 (Winter 2009): 189-192.
Working Paper, “The Bachelet Administration: The Normalization of Politics?” Center for Latin American Studies, University of California at Berkeley. Berkeley, California, August 2009, No. 28, with Kirsten Sehnbruch.
Review Essay, “Chile: Political Economy,” Handbook of Latin American Studies, Washington, DC: The Library of Congress (Vol. 63: Fall 2008): 549-555.
Review of Gender Politics in Brazil and Chile: The Role of Parties in National and Local Policymaking by Fiona Macaulay (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, in association with St. Antony’s College, Oxford, 2006) in Journal of Latin American Studies, 40:1 (February 2008):165-167.
Encyclopedia Entry, “Michelle Bachelet,” in World Book Encyclopedia (Chicago: World Book Encyclopedia, February 2008): http://photo.pds.org:5005/wb/Article?id=ar752575.
Encyclopedia Entry, “Chilean Christian Democratic Party,” in Gale Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture (Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2008).
Review Essay, “Chile: Political Economy,” Handbook of Latin American Studies, Washington, DC: The Library of Congress (Vol. 61: Spring 2006): 549-554.
Review of The Pinochet Effect: Transnational Justice in the Age of Human Rights, by Naomi Roht-Arriaza (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005) in Review of Politics, 68:2 (Spring 2006): 334-336.
Review of Transforming Labor Based Parties in Latin American: Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective, by Steven Levitsky (Cambridge University Press, 2003) in Perspectives on Politics, 2:2 (June 2004): 409-10.
Review of Economic Reforms in Chile: From Dictatorship to Democracy, by Ricardo Ffrench-Davis (University of Michigan Press, 2002) in Latin American Politics and Society, 45:3 (Fall 2003):153-58.
Review of Legislative Institutions and Ideology in Chile, by John Londregan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001) in American Political Science Review, 95:4
Review of Democratic Institutional Design, by Brian Crisp (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000) in Latin American Politics and Society, 43:1 (Spring 2001):164-167.
Review of Regional Mechanism and International Security, by Olga Pellicer (New York: United Nations University Press), in Ethnic Conflict Research Digest, 2:2 (October 1999):49-50.
Rapporteur's Report, "Multilateral Governance in the Western Hemisphere-- A Rapporteur's Report," The Inter-American Dialogue, Washington, DC, June 1995.
Rapporteur’s Report, "Inter-American Peace, Security, and Democracy Planning Workshop-- A Rapporteur's Report," The Inter-American Dialogue, Washington, DC, April 1995.
Working Paper, “Sistemas Electorales Alternativos: Dos Proposiciones,” Centro de Estudios Públicos. Santiago, Chile, March 1993, No. 193, with José María Fuentes.