Rate My Professor David Doyle

Professor David Doyle serves as Professor of Politics and Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, where he is also a Fellow of St Hugh’s College. He previously held the position of Director of the Latin American Centre and currently acts as Tutorial Fellow in the Politics of Latin America at St Hugh’s College. His research and teaching interests center on comparative politics and comparative political economy. Current projects include taxation and tax morale in Latin America and the political effects of migrant remittances. Additional research focuses on remittances, labour, informality, presidentialism, and political preferences, particularly in Latin American countries such as Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, and Mexico.

Professor Doyle served for five years as one of the editors of the Journal of Latin American Studies. His publications have appeared in leading journals such as the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, and Comparative Political Studies. Key works include the book Money Flows: The Political Consequences of Migrant Remittances (Oxford University Press, 2024, with Catherine De Vries, Katerina Terytnychaya, and Hector Solaz); "Protest and Incumbent Support: Evidence from a natural experiment in Ghana" (with Alex Yeandle, Comparative Political Studies, 2025); "Measuring the Significance of Policy Outputs with Positive Unlabeled Learning" (American Political Science Review, 2021); "Opting out of the social contract" (with Néstor Castañeda and Cassilde Schwartz, Comparative Political Studies, 2020); "Progressive tax policy and informal labor in developing economies" (with Néstor Castañeda, Governance, 2019); "When the Money Stops: Declines in Financial Remittances and Incumbent Approval" (with Catherine De Vries, Katerina Terytnychaya, and Hector Solaz, American Political Science Review, 2018); "Presidents, Policy Compromise and Legislative Success" (with Christian Arnold and Nina Wiesehomeier, Journal of Politics, 2017); "Remittances and Social Spending" (American Political Science Review, 2015); and "Maximizing the reliability of cross-national measures of presidential power" (with Robert Elgie, British Journal of Political Science, 2016). In 2020, he was awarded a full professorship through Recognition of Distinction.