Gisela Sin, Ph.D.

gsin@illinois.edu


Associate Professor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year of PhD: 2007

Phone: 7346045877

Address: 510 W. Michigan

City: Urbana, Illinois - 61801

Country: United States

About Me:

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. Gisela is currently working on presidential veto politics, as well as 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 has been a scholar in residence at the Universidad Católica de Chile, the Instituto Iberoamericano Universidad de Salamanca, the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals, as well as 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 the Universidad del Salvador in Argentina. 

Research Interests

American Presidency And Executive Politics

Legislative Politics

Comparative Political Institutions

Latin American And Caribbean Politics

Political Parties and Interest Groups

Representation and Electoral Systems

United States Congress

Argentina

Countries of Interest

United States

Argentina

Brazil

Chile

Media Appearances:

Radio Appearances:

(2017) No Toquen Nada, Montevideo, Uruguay

20-30 min interviews in Spanish about US politics (primaries, campaigns, executive orders, legislation, etc). Some of my contributions can be found in the link below.

Newspaper Quotes:

(2016) The Week

I was quoted on a few articles about US politics