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Edward Gibson Ph.D.
Columbia University
Associate Professor

Teaching 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. Current research addresses the impact of regional coalition-building and federalist institutions on politics and policy-making in Latin America.

Recent articles include "The Populist Road to Market Reform: Policy and Electoral Coalitions in Mexico and Argentina" (World Politics, 1997), and "Federalism and Electoral Coalitions: Making Market Reforms Politically Viable in Argentina," (co-authored with Ernesto Calvo, a Northwestern Ph.D. student). Professor Gibson was recently awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation's "Faculty Early Career Development Program". He was the first political scientist to receive such an award. He was also an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, and taught previously at the University of Michigan. 

[e-mail: egibson@northwestern.edu]