Gabriella Montinola

About

Gabriella Montinola was a W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow for 2006–2007, 2007–2008, 2008–2009, 2009–2010 at the Hoover Institution.

Professor Gabriella Montinola was the 2006–07 and 2007–08 Edward Teller National Fellow.

Political Science, University of California, Davis
Research: A Closer Look at Foreign Aid and Political Survival. “When Does Foreign Aid Work?”
Fellowship period: Fall 2009

Gabriella R. Montinola is an associate professor of political science at UC Davis. Her research focuses on the comparative politics of developing countries. Her work on the impact of political institutions on corruption and the rule of law has been published in academic journals, such as the British Journal of Political Science and Comparative Political Studies as well as edited volumes in the Russell Sage Foundation series on trust. She has also written articles on Philippine politics for more policy-oriented periodicals, such as the Journal of Democracy and Freedom House’s Countries at the Crossroads series.

More recently, she has begun work on a series of papers on the political effects of foreign aid in recipient countries. The first paper: “Does Foreign Aid Support Autocrats, Democrats, or Both?” was recently published in the Journal of Politics (April 2009). While in residence at Hoover, she will continue to focus on foreign aid’s effects, examining whether different channels of aid transmission promote different outcomes in recipient countries.

Montinola has a BA in political science from Emory University and a Master’s and PhD in political science from Stanford University. Before her appointment at UC Davis, Montinola taught at New York University as an assistant professor of political science.