Name: Sebastian M. Saiegh
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Ph.D., New York University, 2004
M.A., Latin American Studies, Stanford University

Field of Expertise: Saiegh's research focuses on comparitive politics, political economy and institutions in Latin America.

Region of Interest: Argentina, Latin America

Media Interview Topics: Saiegh can comment on multilateral agencies in Latin America as well as economic and institutional policies in the southern cone.

Selected Publications:

• With Eduardo Aleman,"Legislative Preferences, Political Parties, and Coalition Unity in Chile," forthcoming in Comparitive Politics, University of Houston.
• "Do Countries Have a Democratic Advantage? Political Institutions, Multilateral Agencies, and Sovereign Borrowing," in Compartitive Political Studies, Vol. 38, pp. 366-87, 2005.