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Daniel W. Gingerich
Professor, Department of Politics
Director, Quantitative Collaborative
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400787, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4787
434-243-4923 (phone)
[email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D, Government, 2007, Harvard University
BS, Government, 1999, Cornell University (magna cum laude)
Areas of specialization
comparative institutions, Latin America, corruption, history and politics, methods
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Professor, Department of Politics, University of Virginia, Fall 2022-present
Director, University of Virginia’s Quantitative Collaborative, Spring 2014-present
Co-Director, CLEAR Lab (Corruption Laboratory for Ethics, Accountability, and the Rule of Law), Fall 2018-2022
Associate Professor, Department of Politics, University of Virginia, Fall 2014-Spring 2022
Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, University of Virginia, Fall 2007-Spring 2014
Visiting Scholar, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC, August 2012- July 2013
Post-doctoral Research Associate, Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, Princeton University, Fall 2006-Spring 2007
PUBLICATIONS
Book
Political Institutions and Party-Directed Corruption in South America: Stealing for the Team. 2013 (Cambridge University Press: Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions). [Honorable mention, 2014 William H. Riker Award for best book in political economy]
Peer-reviewed journal articles
19. National Identity after Conquest (w/ Chris Carter). Forthcoming in American Journal of Political Science.
18. Tempering the Taste for Vengeance: Information about Prisoners and Policy Choices in Chile (co-authored with Fernando G. Cafferata & Carlos
Scartascini). 2023. Comparative Political Studies 56 (10): 1506-1536.
17. A Heavy Hand or a Helping Hand? Information Provision and Citizen Preferences for Anti-Crime Policy in Panama (co-authored with Carlos Scartascini).
2022. Journal of Public Policy 42(2): 364-389.
16. Pandemics and Political Development: The Electoral Legacy of the Black Death in Germany (co-authored w/ Jan Vogler). 2021. World Politics 73 (3):
393-440.
[Winner, 2022 Kellogg/Notre Dame Award for best paper in comparative politics (MPSA)]
15. Buying Power: Electoral Strategy Before the Secret Vote. 2020. American Political Science Review 114 (4): 1086-1102.
14. Vote Secrecy with Diverse Voters (co-authored w/ Danilo Medeiros). 2020. Comparative Political Studies 53 (3-4): 567-600.
13. Lying About Corruption in Surveys: Evidence from a Joint Response Model (co-authored w/ Virginia Oliveros). 2020. International Journal
of Public Opinion Research 32 (2): 384-395.
12. Ballot Reform as Suffrage Restriction: Evidence from Brazil’s Second Republic. 2019. American Journal of Political Science 63 (4): 920-935.
[Winner, 2021 Gregory Luebbert Article Award for best article in comparative politics (APSA)] -- See this Q&A and extended interview
11. Police Violence and the Underreporting of Crime (co-authored with Virginia Oliveros). 2018. Economics and Politics 30 (1): 78-105.
10. Corruption as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Costa Rica. (co-authored with Ana Corbacho, Virginia Oliveros, and
Mauricio Ruiz-Vega). 2016. American Journal of Political Science 60 (4): 1077-1092.
9. When to Protect? Using the Crosswise Model to Integrate Protected and Direct Responses in Surveys of Sensitive Behavior (co-authored with Virginia
Oliveros, Ana Corbacho, and Mauricio Ruiz-Vega). 2016. Political Analysis 24 (2): 132-156 (lead article).
8. Brokered Politics in Brazil: An Empirical Analysis. 2014. Quarterly Journal of Political Science 9 (3): 269-300 (lead article).
7. Yesterday's Heroes, Today's Villains: Ideology, Corruption, and Democratic Performance. 2014. Journal of Theoretical Politics 26 (2): 249-282.
6. The Endurance and Eclipse of the Controlled Vote: A Formal Model of Vote Brokerage under the Secret Ballot (co-authored with Luis F. Medina)
2013. Economics and Politics 25 (3): 453-480.
5. Governance Indicators and the Level of Analysis Problem: Empirical Findings from South America. 2013. British Journal of Political Science 43 (3):
505-540.
4. Understanding Off-the-Books Politics: Conducting Inference on the Determinants of Sensitive Behavior with Randomized Response Surveys. 2010.
Political Analysis 18: 349-380. (one of the journal’s six highly cited articles for publication year; see http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/polana
/impactfactor.html)
3. Corruption and Political Decay: Evidence from Bolivia. 2009. Quarterly Journal of Political Science 4 (1): 1-34 (lead article).
2. Ballot Structure, Political Corruption, and the Performance of Proportional Representation. 2009. Journal of Theoretical Politics 21 (4): 509-541.
Reprinted in Michael Johnston, ed. Public Sector Corruption (Sage, 2010).
1. 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 (lead article). Reprinted in Bob Hanké, ed. Debating Varieties of Capitalism: A Reader (Oxford University
Press, 2009).
Chapters in edited volumes/non-peer reviewed articles
Two Cheers for the “New” Area Studies (w/ Jordan Gans-Morse and Thomas Pepinsky). 2024. Comparative Politics Newsletter (Organized Section in Comparative Politics, APSA), 35(1): 4–11.
"Randomized Response: Foundations and New Developments." 2015. Comparative Politics Newsletter (The Organized Section in Comparative Politics of the American Political Science Association) 25 (1): 16-27.
“Bolivia: Traditional Parties, the State, and the Toll of Corruption.” 2010. In Charles Blake and Steven Morris, eds., Corruption and Politics in Latin America: National and Regional Dynamics. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 55-88.
WORKING PAPERS
Screen Now, Save Later? The Trade-Off between Administrative Ordeals and Fraud (w/ Shan Aman-Rana & Sandip Sukhtankar) [revise-and-resubmit, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy]
When are Junctures Critical? The Legacies and Non-Legacies of Interruptions in Local Self-Government (w/ Jan Vogler) [revise-and-resubmit, World Politics]
AWARDS
Kellog/Notre Dame Award (2022), for the best paper in comparative politics presented at the 2021 meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. (Granted to “Pandemics and Political Development: The Electoral Legacy of the Black Death in Germany”)
Gregory Luebbert Article Award (2021), for "the best article published in the field of comparative politics during the previous two years." (Granted by the Comparative Politics section of the American Political Science Association to "Ballot Reform as Suffrage Restriction: Evidence from Brazil's Second Republic")
Honorable mention, William H. Riker Book Award (2014), for “the best book on political economy published during the past three calendar years.” (Granted by Political Economy Section of the American Political Science Association to Political Institutions and Party-Directed Corruption in South America: Stealing for the Team)
Leonard D. White (2007) Award, for the best dissertation in the field of public administration (Granted by the American Political Science Association to Corruption in General Equilibrium: Political Institutions and Bureaucratic Performance in South America)
Thyssen Award (2004), 2nd prize, for the best social-scientific articles in journals of historiography and the social sciences in Germany (Granted to an early version of “Varieties of Capitalism and Institutional Complementarities in the Macroeconomy: An Empirical Assessment”)
GRANTS
External
National Science Foundation Grant SES-1119908: “Can Institutions Cure Clientelism? Assessing the Impact of the Australian Ballot in Brazil.” (2011-2014: $145,622).
Internal
Quantitative Collaborative Faculty Research Seed Grant (2024: $15,000)
Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation Faculty Research Grant (2023: $5,000)
Corruption Laboratory for Ethics, Accountability, and the Rule of Law (2018-2022: $2,185,673.00) – Second laboratory in UVa's Democracy Initiative
Bankard Fund for Political Economy Faculty Research Grant (2011: $29,980, 2010: $15,650)
Center for International Studies Faculty Research Grant (2011: $3,500)
Quantitative Collaborative Faculty Research Seed Grant (2011: $3,000)
Arts & Sciences Faculty Research Grant in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (2011: $3,000)
Arts and Sciences Summer Research Faculty Grant (2010: $5000)
External/Internal
São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and UVa joint Sprint Grant: "Moralizing the Vote in Brazil: The Quest for Clean Elections from the First Republic to Present" (2017: $25,610.00) [w/ Fernando Limongi and Paulo Ricci]
ADDITIONAL SPONSORED RESEARCH
Inter-American Development Bank, Crime without Punishment: Studies of Corruption and Crime Underreporting in Costa Rica (w/ Ana Corbacho, Virginia Oliveros, and Carlos Mauricio Ruiz Vega)
INVITED TALKS (recent)
Tulane University, Democracy and Authoritarianism in Historical Latin America Workshop, May 31, 2024
Yale University, American and Comparative Political Behavior Workshop, December 1, 2023
Harvard University, Capitalism and the State Seminar, April 28, 2023
Inter-American Development Bank, Political Economy Seminar, October 21, 2022
Duke University, Political Economy Workshop, March 16, 2022
University of São Paulo, Brazil, Department of Political Science, September 16, 2021
University of California, Los Angeles, Comparative Politics workshop, February 11, 2021
Duke University, Clientelism as Electoral Linkage workshop, December 10, 2020
Cornell University, Latin American Politics workshop, November 11, 2019
Duke University, Joint Political Economy & Latin American Politics workshop, October 10, 2018
Juan March Institute, Spain, June 19, 2018
Northwestern University, Comparative Politics Seminar, December 1, 2017
University of São Paulo, Brazil, Department of Political Science, June 13, 2017
Harvard University, Comparative Politics Workshop, December 1, 2016
George Washington University & Inter-American Development Bank, November 3, 2016
Harvard University, May 9, 2016
Aarhus University, Denmark, October 16, 2015
Harvard University, May 8, 2015
Duke University, March 20, 2015
Vanderbilt University, November 14, 2014
Inter-American Development Bank, May 12, 2014
Washington University, St. Louis, Political Economy Workshop, April 25, 2014
Duke University, Political Economy Workshop, April 16, 2014
New York University, Comparative Politics workshop, February 20, 2014
University of São Paulo, Brazil, December 12-13, 2013
Stanford University, Comparative Politics workshop, November 18, 2013
Juan March Institute, Spain, May 31, 2013
Duke University, Frontiers of Political Economy, April 25-26, 2013
University of Pittsburgh, Political Economy of Development Speakers Series, April 5, 2013
University of Chicago, Comparative Politics Speakers Series, January 23, 2013
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Comparative Politics Seminar Series, November 9, 2012
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Comparative Politics Seminar Series, October 8, 2012
Daniel W. Gingerich
Professor, Department of Politics
Director, Quantitative Collaborative
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400787, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4787
434-243-4923 (phone)
[email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D, Government, 2007, Harvard University
BS, Government, 1999, Cornell University (magna cum laude)
Areas of specialization
comparative institutions, Latin America, corruption, history and politics, methods
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Professor, Department of Politics, University of Virginia, Fall 2022-present
Director, University of Virginia’s Quantitative Collaborative, Spring 2014-present
Co-Director, CLEAR Lab (Corruption Laboratory for Ethics, Accountability, and the Rule of Law), Fall 2018-2022
Associate Professor, Department of Politics, University of Virginia, Fall 2014-Spring 2022
Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, University of Virginia, Fall 2007-Spring 2014
Visiting Scholar, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC, August 2012- July 2013
Post-doctoral Research Associate, Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, Princeton University, Fall 2006-Spring 2007
PUBLICATIONS
Book
Political Institutions and Party-Directed Corruption in South America: Stealing for the Team. 2013 (Cambridge University Press: Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions). [Honorable mention, 2014 William H. Riker Award for best book in political economy]
Peer-reviewed journal articles
19. National Identity after Conquest (w/ Chris Carter). Forthcoming in American Journal of Political Science.
18. Tempering the Taste for Vengeance: Information about Prisoners and Policy Choices in Chile (co-authored with Fernando G. Cafferata & Carlos
Scartascini). 2023. Comparative Political Studies 56 (10): 1506-1536.
17. A Heavy Hand or a Helping Hand? Information Provision and Citizen Preferences for Anti-Crime Policy in Panama (co-authored with Carlos Scartascini).
2022. Journal of Public Policy 42(2): 364-389.
16. Pandemics and Political Development: The Electoral Legacy of the Black Death in Germany (co-authored w/ Jan Vogler). 2021. World Politics 73 (3):
393-440.
[Winner, 2022 Kellogg/Notre Dame Award for best paper in comparative politics (MPSA)]
15. Buying Power: Electoral Strategy Before the Secret Vote. 2020. American Political Science Review 114 (4): 1086-1102.
14. Vote Secrecy with Diverse Voters (co-authored w/ Danilo Medeiros). 2020. Comparative Political Studies 53 (3-4): 567-600.
13. Lying About Corruption in Surveys: Evidence from a Joint Response Model (co-authored w/ Virginia Oliveros). 2020. International Journal
of Public Opinion Research 32 (2): 384-395.
12. Ballot Reform as Suffrage Restriction: Evidence from Brazil’s Second Republic. 2019. American Journal of Political Science 63 (4): 920-935.
[Winner, 2021 Gregory Luebbert Article Award for best article in comparative politics (APSA)] -- See this Q&A and extended interview
11. Police Violence and the Underreporting of Crime (co-authored with Virginia Oliveros). 2018. Economics and Politics 30 (1): 78-105.
10. Corruption as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Costa Rica. (co-authored with Ana Corbacho, Virginia Oliveros, and
Mauricio Ruiz-Vega). 2016. American Journal of Political Science 60 (4): 1077-1092.
9. When to Protect? Using the Crosswise Model to Integrate Protected and Direct Responses in Surveys of Sensitive Behavior (co-authored with Virginia
Oliveros, Ana Corbacho, and Mauricio Ruiz-Vega). 2016. Political Analysis 24 (2): 132-156 (lead article).
8. Brokered Politics in Brazil: An Empirical Analysis. 2014. Quarterly Journal of Political Science 9 (3): 269-300 (lead article).
7. Yesterday's Heroes, Today's Villains: Ideology, Corruption, and Democratic Performance. 2014. Journal of Theoretical Politics 26 (2): 249-282.
6. The Endurance and Eclipse of the Controlled Vote: A Formal Model of Vote Brokerage under the Secret Ballot (co-authored with Luis F. Medina)
2013. Economics and Politics 25 (3): 453-480.
5. Governance Indicators and the Level of Analysis Problem: Empirical Findings from South America. 2013. British Journal of Political Science 43 (3):
505-540.
4. Understanding Off-the-Books Politics: Conducting Inference on the Determinants of Sensitive Behavior with Randomized Response Surveys. 2010.
Political Analysis 18: 349-380. (one of the journal’s six highly cited articles for publication year; see http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/polana
/impactfactor.html)
3. Corruption and Political Decay: Evidence from Bolivia. 2009. Quarterly Journal of Political Science 4 (1): 1-34 (lead article).
2. Ballot Structure, Political Corruption, and the Performance of Proportional Representation. 2009. Journal of Theoretical Politics 21 (4): 509-541.
Reprinted in Michael Johnston, ed. Public Sector Corruption (Sage, 2010).
1. 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 (lead article). Reprinted in Bob Hanké, ed. Debating Varieties of Capitalism: A Reader (Oxford University
Press, 2009).
Chapters in edited volumes/non-peer reviewed articles
Two Cheers for the “New” Area Studies (w/ Jordan Gans-Morse and Thomas Pepinsky). 2024. Comparative Politics Newsletter (Organized Section in Comparative Politics, APSA), 35(1): 4–11.
"Randomized Response: Foundations and New Developments." 2015. Comparative Politics Newsletter (The Organized Section in Comparative Politics of the American Political Science Association) 25 (1): 16-27.
“Bolivia: Traditional Parties, the State, and the Toll of Corruption.” 2010. In Charles Blake and Steven Morris, eds., Corruption and Politics in Latin America: National and Regional Dynamics. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 55-88.
WORKING PAPERS
Screen Now, Save Later? The Trade-Off between Administrative Ordeals and Fraud (w/ Shan Aman-Rana & Sandip Sukhtankar) [revise-and-resubmit, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy]
When are Junctures Critical? The Legacies and Non-Legacies of Interruptions in Local Self-Government (w/ Jan Vogler) [revise-and-resubmit, World Politics]
AWARDS
Kellog/Notre Dame Award (2022), for the best paper in comparative politics presented at the 2021 meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. (Granted to “Pandemics and Political Development: The Electoral Legacy of the Black Death in Germany”)
Gregory Luebbert Article Award (2021), for "the best article published in the field of comparative politics during the previous two years." (Granted by the Comparative Politics section of the American Political Science Association to "Ballot Reform as Suffrage Restriction: Evidence from Brazil's Second Republic")
Honorable mention, William H. Riker Book Award (2014), for “the best book on political economy published during the past three calendar years.” (Granted by Political Economy Section of the American Political Science Association to Political Institutions and Party-Directed Corruption in South America: Stealing for the Team)
Leonard D. White (2007) Award, for the best dissertation in the field of public administration (Granted by the American Political Science Association to Corruption in General Equilibrium: Political Institutions and Bureaucratic Performance in South America)
Thyssen Award (2004), 2nd prize, for the best social-scientific articles in journals of historiography and the social sciences in Germany (Granted to an early version of “Varieties of Capitalism and Institutional Complementarities in the Macroeconomy: An Empirical Assessment”)
GRANTS
External
National Science Foundation Grant SES-1119908: “Can Institutions Cure Clientelism? Assessing the Impact of the Australian Ballot in Brazil.” (2011-2014: $145,622).
Internal
Quantitative Collaborative Faculty Research Seed Grant (2024: $15,000)
Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation Faculty Research Grant (2023: $5,000)
Corruption Laboratory for Ethics, Accountability, and the Rule of Law (2018-2022: $2,185,673.00) – Second laboratory in UVa's Democracy Initiative
Bankard Fund for Political Economy Faculty Research Grant (2011: $29,980, 2010: $15,650)
Center for International Studies Faculty Research Grant (2011: $3,500)
Quantitative Collaborative Faculty Research Seed Grant (2011: $3,000)
Arts & Sciences Faculty Research Grant in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (2011: $3,000)
Arts and Sciences Summer Research Faculty Grant (2010: $5000)
External/Internal
São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and UVa joint Sprint Grant: "Moralizing the Vote in Brazil: The Quest for Clean Elections from the First Republic to Present" (2017: $25,610.00) [w/ Fernando Limongi and Paulo Ricci]
ADDITIONAL SPONSORED RESEARCH
Inter-American Development Bank, Crime without Punishment: Studies of Corruption and Crime Underreporting in Costa Rica (w/ Ana Corbacho, Virginia Oliveros, and Carlos Mauricio Ruiz Vega)
INVITED TALKS (recent)
Tulane University, Democracy and Authoritarianism in Historical Latin America Workshop, May 31, 2024
Yale University, American and Comparative Political Behavior Workshop, December 1, 2023
Harvard University, Capitalism and the State Seminar, April 28, 2023
Inter-American Development Bank, Political Economy Seminar, October 21, 2022
Duke University, Political Economy Workshop, March 16, 2022
University of São Paulo, Brazil, Department of Political Science, September 16, 2021
University of California, Los Angeles, Comparative Politics workshop, February 11, 2021
Duke University, Clientelism as Electoral Linkage workshop, December 10, 2020
Cornell University, Latin American Politics workshop, November 11, 2019
Duke University, Joint Political Economy & Latin American Politics workshop, October 10, 2018
Juan March Institute, Spain, June 19, 2018
Northwestern University, Comparative Politics Seminar, December 1, 2017
University of São Paulo, Brazil, Department of Political Science, June 13, 2017
Harvard University, Comparative Politics Workshop, December 1, 2016
George Washington University & Inter-American Development Bank, November 3, 2016
Harvard University, May 9, 2016
Aarhus University, Denmark, October 16, 2015
Harvard University, May 8, 2015
Duke University, March 20, 2015
Vanderbilt University, November 14, 2014
Inter-American Development Bank, May 12, 2014
Washington University, St. Louis, Political Economy Workshop, April 25, 2014
Duke University, Political Economy Workshop, April 16, 2014
New York University, Comparative Politics workshop, February 20, 2014
University of São Paulo, Brazil, December 12-13, 2013
Stanford University, Comparative Politics workshop, November 18, 2013
Juan March Institute, Spain, May 31, 2013
Duke University, Frontiers of Political Economy, April 25-26, 2013
University of Pittsburgh, Political Economy of Development Speakers Series, April 5, 2013
University of Chicago, Comparative Politics Speakers Series, January 23, 2013
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Comparative Politics Seminar Series, November 9, 2012
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Comparative Politics Seminar Series, October 8, 2012