Contact Information
1407 W Gregory Dr
M/C 713
Urbana, IL 61801
Biography
Gisela Sin is Associate professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois. She studies political institutions with an emphasis on the strategic elements of separation of powers and is currently working on presidential veto politics, and also political parties in Latin America. She is the author of Separation of Powers and Legislative Organization (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and the coauthor of Congreso, Presidencia y Justicia en Argentina (TEMAS, 1999). Her research has been published in the Journal of Politics, the Journal of Theoretical Politics, the Journal of Legislative Studies, Comparative Political Studies, the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organizations, Studies in American Political Development, the Journal of Politics in Latin America, Perpectives on Politics, and Public Choice. She has presented her work at universities throughout Latin America and Europe and was a scholar in residence at Universidad Católica de Chile, Instituto Iberoamericano Universidad de Salamanca, Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals, and a Fulbright Scholar in the United States. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan and a B.A. from Universidad del Salvador in Argentina.
Education
PhD. University of Michigan 2007
BA, Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1996
Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Political Science
Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Director, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Associate Professor, Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies
Associate Professor, European Union Center
External Links
Highlighted Publications
Sin, G. (2014). Separation of Powers and Legislative Organization: The President, the Senate, and Political Parties in the Making of House Rules. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107270053
Recent Publications
Powell, E. N., Schwindt-Bayer, L., & Sin, G. (2023). Women in Legislative Studies: Improving Gender Equality. PS - Political Science and Politics, 56(4), 591-597. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096523000306
Cheibub, J. A., Moreira, T., Sin, G., & Tanabe, K. (2022). Dynamic party system fragmentation. Electoral Studies, 76, Article 102440. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2022.102440
Magar, E., Palanza, V., & Sin, G. (2021). Presidents on the fast track: Fighting floor amendments with restrictive rules. Journal of Politics, 83(2), 633-646. https://doi.org/10.1086/710015
Cheibub, J. A., & Sin, G. (2020). Preference vote and intra-party competition in open list PR systems. Journal of Theoretical Politics, 32(1), 70-95. https://doi.org/10.1177/0951629819893024
Harbridge-Yong, L., & Sin, G. (Eds.) (2020). Spotlight: Interviews, Reflections, and Advice from Women in Legislative Studies. PS - Political Science and Politics, 53(2). https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096519002038