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 research focuses on understanding the causes and consequences of corruption in Latin America as well as developing new methodologies to study corruption. Gingerich has published or has forthcoming articles in journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Theoretical Politics, and the British Journal of Political Science. He is currently working on a book manuscript entitled "Corruption in General Equilibrium: Political Institutions and Bureaucratic Performance in South America." Gingerich’s dissertation of the same name was given the 2007 Leonard D. White Award by the American Political Science Association for the best dissertation in the field of public administration. Prior to coming to Virginia, Gingerich held a fellowship at Princeton's Center for the Study of Democratic Politics.

Recent publications:

Corruption and Political Decay: Evidence from Bolivia. 2009. Quarterly Journal of Political Science 4 (1): 1-34.

Ballot Structure, Political Corruption, and the Performance of Proportional Representation. 2009. Journal of Theoretical Politics 21 (4): 1-33.

Varieties of Capitalism and Institutional Complementarities in the Macroeconomy: An Empirical Assessment.” (co-authored with Peter Hall) 2009. British Journal of Political Science 39: 449-482.

Manuscripts under review:

Understanding ‘Off the Books’ Politics: Conducting Inference on the Determinants of Sensitive Behavior with Randomized Response Surveys.

Abandoning Bureaucracy with Adjectives: The Gap between Bureaucratic Reputation and Bureaucratic Reality in South America.

Working papers:

Corruption, Ideology, and the Returns to Democracy