Alberto Simpser
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Alberto Simpser |
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Major Areas of Interest: |
- Political economy of development |
| E-Mail: | asimpser@uchicago.edu |
| Website: | home.uchicago.edu/~asimpser |
| Phone: | (773) 702-0234 |
| Office: | Pick 517 |
| Office hours: | TH 3:30-5:30 p.m. |
Alberto Simpser is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago since 2006. His general area of interest is the political economy of development. His recent work focuses on the topics of electoral manipulation, election monitoring, mechanisms of authoritarian political control, redistributive spending, sub-national governance, and corruption. His current book manuscript, More than Winning: Why Parties and Governments Manipulate Elections, is a comparative study of the incentives underpinning electoral manipulation around the world.
