Edward Gibson
Professor and Associate Chair
Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence
PhD, Columbia University
Professor Gibson's interests include comparative politics, political development, democratization, and Latin American politics. He is the author of Class and Conservative Parties: Argentina in Comparative Perspective (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), as well as several articles on party politics and democratization in Latin America. His current research addresses the impact of regional coalition building and federalist institutions on politics and policy making in Latin America.
His recent articles include "The Populist Road to Market Reform: Policy and Electoral Coalitions in Mexico and Argentina" (World Politics, 1997) and "Federalism and and Low Maintenance Constituencies: Territorial Dimensions of Economic Reform in Argentina," (coauthored with Ernesto Calvo, a Northwestern PhD student, Studies in International Comparative Development, Fall 2000). Gibson is the editor of Federalism: Latin America in Comparative Perspective (Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming 2003). He recently became the first political scientist to receive a grant from the National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development Program. He was an academy scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies and taught previously at the University of Michigan. He is currently serving as Associate Chair of the Department of Political Science.