Daniel W. Gingerich

dwg4c@virginia.edu Phone: 434 243-4923

Daniel W. Gingerich , (Ph.D., Harvard University) is Assistant Professor of Politics specializing in comparative politics. His current research investigates the relationship between democratic institutions and political corruption in three countries in South America (Bolivia, Brazil and Chile), using formal analytic approaches and statistical methods. His dissertation on this topic, entitled "Corruption in General Equilibrium: Political Institutions and Bureaucratic Performance in South America" was given the 2007 Leonard D. White Award by the American Political Science Association for the best dissertation in the field of public administration. Daniel is also engaged in an ongoing research project on the impact of citizen exposure to corruption on participation in anti-government protest. Prior to coming to Virginia, he held a fellowship at Princeton's Center for the Study of Democratic Politics.