University of California, Davis Department of Political Science Davis, CA 95616-8682 GABRIELLA R. MONTINOLA Updated:October 2016 Phone: (530) 752-0966 Fax: (530) 752-8666 Email: grmontinola@ucdavis.edu EDUCATION: Ph.D. Political Science, Stanford University. Major Fields: Comparative Politics, International Relations Minor Field: Organization Theory M.A. Political Science, Stanford University. B.A. with Highest Honors, Emory University. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: 2004- Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, Davis. 1997-2004 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, Davis. 1994-1997 Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, New York University. PUBLICATIONS: Remittances, Regime Type and Government Spending Priorities (with M. Easton). Forthcoming in Studies for Comparative International Development. Foreign Aid, Time Horizons, and Trade Policy (with D.Y. Kono). Comparative Political Studies 48, 6 (May 2015):788-819. Research findings described in Foreign Aid Encourages Trade Liberalization When Given to Politically Insecure Leaders. (with D.Y. Kono). London School of Economics and Political Science: American Politics and Policy blog. (June 18, 2015) http://bit.ly/1l1wlad. Helping Hand or Heavy Hand? Foreign Aid, Regime Type and Domestic Unrest (with D.Y. Kono and N. Verbon). International Political Science Review 36,4 (2015) 409 424. Another Resource Curse? The Impact of Remittances on Political Participation (with K.Y.Dionne and K.Inman). Afrobarometer Working Paper # 145 (January 2014). The Uses and Abuses of Foreign Aid: Development Aid and Military Spending. (with D.Y. Kono). Political Research Quarterly 66, 3 (September 2013):615-629.
Winner of Western Political Science Association 2014 and Political Research Quarterly 2013 Best Article Award. Change and Continuity in a Limited Access Order: The Philippines. in Douglass C. North, John Wallis, Barry Weingast, and Steven Webb (eds.) In the Shadow of Violence: Politics, Economics and the Problems of Development. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. When Does Aid Conditionality Work? Studies for Comparative International Development 45, 3 (September 2010):358-382. Does Foreign Aid Support Autocrats, Democrats, or Both? (with D.Y. Kono). The Journal of Politics 71, 2 (April 2009): 704 718. Political Competition, Rent-Seeking and Corruption: The Emergence of Clean Government in Chile in Masaru Kohno and Aiji Tanaka (eds). Kitai, Seido, Gurobaru-shakai (Expectations, Institutions, and Global Society). Tokyo: Keiso-Shobo, 2009. Proxies and Experience as Bases of Trust in Courts Pp 286-307 in Karen Cook, Russell Hardin, and Margaret Levi (eds.). Whom Can We Trust? How Groups, Networks, and Institutions Make Trust Possible. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2009. Philippines. Pp. 443-64 in Sarah Repucci and Christopher Walker (eds.). Countries at the Crossroads 2005: A Survey of Democratic Governance. New York: Freedom House, 2005. Political Corruption. In C. Neal Tate (ed). Governments of the World: A Global Guide to Citizens' Rights and Responsibilities. Thomson Gale, 2005. Corruption, Distrust, and the Deterioration of the Rule of Law. Pp. 298-323 in Russell Hardin (ed.). Distrust. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004. Veto Players and the Rule of Law in Emerging Democracies (with J. Andrews). Comparative Political Studies 37(1)(February 2004):55-87. Who Recovers First? Banking Crises Resolution in Developing Countries. Comparative Political Studies 36, 5 (June 2003):541-74. Sources of Corruption: A Cross-Country Study (with R. Jackman). British Journal of Political Science 32(1) (January 2002):147-70. Reprinted in Bo Rothstein, ed., Political Corruption. (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015). Comparative Political Corruption: Issues Regarding Operationalization and Measurement (with T. D. Lancaster). Studies in Comparative International Development 36(3) (Fall 2001): 3-28.
Thailand: Episodic Reform, Regulatory Incapacity and Financial Crisis, (with J. LoGerfo). Pp. 65-89 in Shale Horowitz and Uk Heo (eds). The Political Economy of International Financial Crisis: Interest Groups, Ideologies and Institutions. Boulder, CO: Rowman & Littlefied, 2001. The Political Economy of Foreign Bank Entry and its Impact: Theory and a Case Study (with R.Moreno).. Pacific Basin Working Paper Series, Center for Pacific Basin Monetary and Economic Studies, Economic Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, PB01-11 (2001). Politicians, Parties, and the Persistence of Weak States: Lessons from the Philippines. Development & Change 30 (4) (October, 1999):739-74. Parties and Accountability in the Philippines. Journal of Democracy 10 (1) (January, 1999):126-40. The Philippines in 1998: Opportunity amid Crisis. Asian Survey 39 (1) (January/February, 1999):64-71. "Toward a Methodology for the Comparative Study of Political Corruption" (with T. D. Lancaster). Crime, Law and Social Change 27(1997):185-206. "Federalism, Chinese Style: The Political Basis for Economic Success in China" (with B. R. Weingast and Y. Qian). World Politics 48 (1) (October, 1995):50-81. Reprinted in Chun Lin, ed., China. Vol. II (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2000) Reprinted in Howard J Wiarda, ed. Comparative Politics : Critical Concepts in Political Science Vol. 3 (London ; New York : Routledge, 2005) Reprinted in Etisham Ahmad and Giorgio Brosio, eds., Effective Federalism and Local Finance (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011). Reprinted in Anthony Saich, ed.. Political Governance In China. (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014). "The Foundations of Political Corruption: Insights from the Philippine Case. Asian Journal of Political Science 2 (1) (June, 1994):86-113. "EC-ASEAN Relations," In Facts About the European Community. Foreign Service Institute, Manila, Philippines, 1990: 16-25. WORK IN PROGRESS/UNDER REVIEW: Remittances and Political Participation in Africa (with K.Y. Dionne and K. Inman) Foreign Aid and Civic Engagement: Experimental Evidence from the Philippines (with T. Taylor) Executive Power and Misuse of Foreign Aid in Developing Democracies, (with J. T. Andrews)
Community-Based Aid Distribution and Local Capture in Heterogeneous Societies Updated:October 2016 CONFERENCE PAPERS: Foreign Aid and Civic Engagement: Experimental Evidence from the Philippines, American Political Science Association Meeting, San Francisco, CA, September 3-6, 2015. Executive Power and Misuse of Foreign Aid in Developing Democracies, American Political Science Association Meeting, San Francisco, CA, September 3-6, 2015. Remittances and the Quality of Governance, American Political Science Association Meeting, Washington, D.C., August 28-31, 2014. Foreign Aid, Time Horizons and Policy Reform International Studies Association Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 3-6, 2013. Foreign Aid, Regime Type and Domestic Unrest, International Studies Association Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 3-6, 2013; Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 12-15, 2012; and the IGCC Northern California Symposium, November 18, 2011. The Philippines: Change and Continuity in a Limited Access Order, International Society for New Institutional Economics Meeting, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, June 16-18, 2011. The Problem of Development for Limited Access Order Societies: The Philippines Conference on The Interplay of Economics and Politics as the Drivers of Development Outcomes, World Bank, Washington, D.C., June 3-4, 2010. Foreign Aid and Civil Unrest, International Studies Association Meeting, New Orleans, LA, February 17-20, 2010. Do Migrants Remittances Influence Turnout in Origin Countries? International Studies Association Meeting, New York, NY, February 15-18, 2009. When Does Aid Conditionality Work? American Political Science Association Meeting, Boston, MA, August 28-31, 2008. Foreign Aid, Regime Type and Economic Reform International Studies Association Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March 26-29, 2008. Does Foreign Aid Promote Government Survival? American Political Science Association Meeting, Washington, D.C., September 1-4, 2005. Foreign Aid and Democratization Revisited International Studies Association Meeting, Honolulu, HI, March 1-5, 2005.
Veto Players and Corruption in Emerging Democracies ( with Josephine Andrews). American Political Science Association Meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 30-September 2, 2001; and the International Political Science Association World Congress, Durban, South Africa, June 29-July 4, 2003. Foreign Bank Entry in the Philippines (with R. Moreno). International Studies Association Meeting, Chicago, IL, February 20-24, 2001. Who Recovers First? Banking Crisis Resolution in Developing Countries. American Political Science Association Meeting, Washington, D.C., August 30 - September 3, 2000; and presented at the Workshop on Pacific Monetary and Financial Issues, University of California at Santa Barbara, January 28, 2000. From Miracle to Debacle: Origins of the 1997 Financial Crisis in Thailand ( with J. LoGerfo). International Studies Association Meeting, Washington, D.C., February 16-20, 1999 and Conference on the World Financial Crisis, University of Wisconsin, MI, May 7-9, 1999. Corrupt Democratization: The Importance of Institutional Design in the Multidimensional Political Environments of Transition (with J. T. Andrews). American Political Science Association Meeting, Boston, MA, September 3-6, 1998. Politicians, Parties, and the Persistence of Weak States. American Political Science Association Meeting, Washington, D.C., August 27-31, 1997. "Toward a Methodology for the Comparative Study of Political Corruption" (with T. D. Lancaster). International Conference on Corruption in Contemporary Politics, European Studies Research Institute and University of Salford, United Kingdom, November 14-16, 1996. "Manufacturing Weak States. New York University Department of Politics Faculty Research Seminar, New York, NY, October 23, 1996. "The Trouble with State Autonomy." Meeting of the International Studies Association, San Diego, CA, April 16-20, 1996. "The Efficient Secret Revisited: The Emergence of 'Clean Government' in Chile." Latin American Studies Association Meeting, Washington, D.C. September 28-30, 1995. "The Institutional Foundations of Corruption: The Rise and Fall of the Marcos Regime." Paper presented at a National Science Foundation Workshop at the University of California, Los Angeles, March 1993. INVITED LECTURES: 2016. University of Essex. Brown Bag Seminar:Foreign Aid and Civic Participation. Department
of Government. 2016. Waseda University SGU Program. Empirical Analyses of Political Economy. 2012. UCSD/School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS). Public Lecture on the Use and Abuse of Foreign Aid. 2009. Waseda University, Global COE GLOPE II 1 st International Symposium on Expectations, Institutions and Global Society. 2008. University of Southern California, Center for International Studies Research Workshop. 2007. Stanford University, Workshop in Comparative Politics and Historical Analysis. 2007. George Mason University, Workshop in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. 2007. Hoover Institution at Stanford University, Collective Choice Series. 2005. Michigan State University, Conference on Corruption and Accountability in Latin America. 2004. Ateneo de Manila University, Lecture on Electoral Rules and Good Governance. 2002. Stanford University, Workshop in Comparative Politics and Historical Analysis. 2001. UC, Davis, PACBAD Speaker Series on Contemporary Issues in Pacific Rim Countries. 2000. UC, Santa Barbara, IGCC Workshop on Pacific Monetary and Financial Issues. 1999. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Conference on the World Financial Crisis. 1997. NYU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Spring Colloquium Series. 1996. NYU School of Law, Law, Economics and Politics Series. 1995. University of Rochester, Department of Political Science, Political Economy Series. OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Discussant, Workshop on Foreign Aid and Public Opinion. University of Essex, April 29-30, 2016. Participant, Book Conference on Democracy, Inequality, and Corruption: Korea, Taiwan, and the Philippines Compared. UCSD s IR/PS, November 3, 2012. Chair, Panel on Foreign Aid and Policy Concessions. Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 12-15, 2012. Discussant, Panel on Poverty and Public Policy. American Political Science Association Meeting, Seattle, WA, September 1-4, 2011. Chair/Discussant, Panel on Shocking Politics: Exogenous Shocks and Political Stability. International Studies Association Meeting, New Orleans, LA, February 16-30, 2010. Discussant, Panel on Measuring Quality of Government: Is There Room for Improvement? American Political Science Association Meeting, Toronto, ON, September 3-6, 2009. Chair/Discussant, Panel on New Approaches to State Capacity and Development, American Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, IL, September 2-5, 2004. Discussant, Southeast Asia in Political Science, Asia Pacific Research Center Workshop,
Stanford, CA June 18-19, 2004. Chair/Discussant, Panel on The Politics of Corruption, American Political Science Association Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, August 27-31, 2003. Chair, Panel on Measures of Governance Reform, Conference on Global Political Economy Data, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, April 11-12, 2003. Chair/Discussant, Panel on Models of Bureaucratic Accountability and Control, American Political Science Association Meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 30-September 2, 2001. Participant, Claremont Conference on the Political Economy of International Financial Crises, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, December 1-2, 2000. Participant, IGCC Workshop on Pacific Monetary and Financial Issues, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, November 17, 2000. Reviewing Scholarship, Letter to the Editor, Far Eastern Economic Review, May 25, 2000, 4. Discussant, Panel on The Political Economy of International Financial Crises, International Studies Association Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, March 15-19, 2000. Participant, New Methods for Comparative Politics: Roundtable Discussion, Western Political Science Association, Seattle, WA, March 25-27, 1999. Participant, Conference on Challenges to Governance in Latin America and the Pacific Rim, University of California, San Diego, March 4-6, 1999. Participant, Russell Sage Foundation Workshop on Trust and Ethnic Conflict, New York, NY, October 25, 1996. "The Philippine Political System and Chilean-Philippine Relations," Seminar presentation delivered at the Fundacion Chilena del Pacifico, Santiago, Chile, August 11, 1995. Participant, MacArthur Foundation Workshop on Democracy and Popular Empowerment. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, April 8-10, 1994. Participant, Conference on Conflict, Cooperation and Multilateralism in the Asia Pacific Region, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, March 18-20, 1994. Participant, National Conference on Decentralization and Local Governance, Bacolod City, Negros Occidental, Philippines, July 19-23, 1993. Manuscript Reviews for American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Asian Survey, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Comparative
Political Studies, Democratization, Economics and Politics, Governance, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Politics, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Party Politics, Political Studies, Political Research Quarterly, Studies for Comparative International Development, and World Politics. FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS & HONORS: 2015-2016 UC Davis Office of Global Affairs/Matching Grant from DSS Dean s Office 2015-2016 UC Davis Office of Research 2014 Western Political Science Association Best Article Award 2013 Political Research Quarterly Best Article Award 2010-2011 UC Davis Academic Senate Faculty Research Grant 2009 W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellowship and Edward Teller National Fellowship at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University (September - December 2009) 2007 W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellowship and Edward Teller National Fellowship at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University (September - December 2007) 2006-2007 W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellowship and Edward Teller National Fellowship at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University 2006-2007 UC Davis Academic Senate Faculty Research Grant 2003-2004 Russell Sage Foundation Research Grant 2002-2003 UC Davis Academic Senate Faculty Research Grant 2001-2002 UC Davis Academic Senate Faculty Research Grant 2000-2001 UC Davis Faculty Development Award 2000-2001 Institute for Governmental Affairs Junior Faculty Research Grant 2000-2001 UC Davis Academic Senate Faculty Research Grant 1999-2000 UC Davis Academic Senate Faculty Research Grant 1998-1999 Institute for Governmental Affairs Junior Faculty Research Grant 1998-1999 UC Davis Academic Senate Faculty Research Grant 1997-1998 UC Davis Academic Senate Faculty Research Grant 1997 Visiting Fellowship, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore (August - December 1997) 1993-1994 Institute for the Study of World Politics Fellowship. 1989-1993 Stanford University Graduate Fellowship. DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE: 2016-2017 Member, Undergraduate Affairs Committee 2015-2016 Member, Undergraduate Affairs Committee 2014-2015 Member, Undergraduate Affairs Committee 2013-2014 Member, Undergraduate Affairs Committee Member, Infrastructure Committee
2012-2013 Member, Undergraduate Affairs Undergraduate Advisor 2011-2012 Member, Comparative Politics Recruitment Committee 2010-2011 Comparative Politics Field Convener Chair, Comparative Field Exam Committee Member, Infrastructure Committee Undergraduate Advisor 2009-2010 Member, Graduate Affairs Committee Member, Undergraduate Affairs Committee 2008-2009 Member, Methods Recruitment Committee Undergraduate Advisor 2007-2008 Member, Undergraduate Affairs Committee 2005-2006 Comparative Politics Field Convener Member, Graduate Affairs, Admissions and Awards Committee 2004-2005 Comparative Politics Field Convener Chair, Comparative Field Exam Committee Member, Graduate Affairs, Admissions and Awards Committee 2003-2004 Member, Graduate Affairs, Admissions and Awards Committee 2002-2003 Member, Graduate Affairs, Admissions and Awards Committee Member, Comparative Politics Recruitment Committee 2001-2002 Member, Infrastructure Committee 1999-2000 Chair, Graduate Admissions Committee Member, Graduate Awards Committee Departmental Delegate to Representative Assembly of the College of L&S 1998-1999 Member, American Politics Recruitment Committee Member, Graduate Admissions Committee 1997-1998 Member, Graduate Admissions Committee 1997-present Adviser, Pi Sigma Alpha COURSES TAUGHT: Political Science 2 Political Science 129 Political Science 148A Political Science 148C Introduction to Comparative Politics Special Studies in IR: Political Economy of Foreign Aid Politics and Government of China Politics and Government of Southeast Asia
Political Science 142A Political Science 142C Political Science 242 Political Science 274 Comparative Political Development: Governance Comparative Political Development: Democratization Graduate Seminar: Core Seminar in Comparative Politics Graduate Seminar: Comparative Political Economy COLLEGE SERVICE: 2016 Dean s Faculty Advisory Committee, Division of Social Sciences 2015 Dean s Faculty Advisory Committee, Division of Social Sciences Letters & Science Library Committee 2014 Blum Center Review Committee 2013 Dean s Faculty Advisory Committee, Division of Social Sciences Blum Center Review Committee 2012 Chancellor s Blue Ribbon Committee on the Undergraduate Experience 2011 Educational Policy Committee of the Graduate Council Blum Center Review Committee 2010 Educational Policy Committee of the Graduate Council 2009 Educational Policy Committee of the Graduate Council 2005 International Relations Program Committee EAP Scholarship Review Subcommittee IGA Junior Faculty Research Program Committee 2004 Dean s Faculty Advisory Committee, Division of Social Sciences IGCC Campus Program Committee International Relations Program Committee 1999 Dean s Recruitment Advisory Committee, Division of Social Sciences Guest Speaker, International Relations Student Association, January 19, 2000. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: American Political Science Association International Studies Association International Political Science Association