Gabriel Negretto

Gabriel Leonardo Negretto is a research professor in political science at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica (CIDE) in Mexico, and will spend the fall 2007 semester at Kellogg.

While at Kellogg, Negretto will work on a book identifying the political, social, and institutional factors that affect the lifespan of constitutions. Through his project, “Political Conflict, Institutional Design, and Constitutional Instability in Latin America,” Negretto will explore the concept of constitutional stability from a theoretical, empirical, and comparative perspective. Furthermore, he will analyze the correlation between political and social stability and the lifespan of constitutions.

Negretto’s most recent work is “Choosing How to Choose Presidents. Parties, Military Rulers and Presidential Elections in Latin America”, published in the Journal of Politics (June 2006), and "Minority Presidents and Democratic Performance in Latin America," published in Latin American Politics and Society (Fall 2006). He has published El Problema de la Emergencia en el Sistema Constitucional (Rodolfo Depalma, 1994), as well as numerous book chapters and articles on institutional design, political systems, and constitutional change.

Negretto holds a PhD from Columbia University.