Rate My Professor Eduardo Alemán

Alemán's research examines executive-legislative relations, parliamentary procedures, government coalitions, and agenda-setting across Latin American legislatures. He has authored and edited several books, including Latin American Politics (Sage/CQ Press, 2021), Legislative Institutions and Lawmaking in Latin America (Oxford University Press, 2016, co-edited with George Tsebelis), and forthcoming The Law and Politics of Constitution Making: Lessons from Chile (Routledge, 2026, co-edited with Sebastián Soto Velasco). His peer-reviewed articles have appeared in journals such as World Politics, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Electoral Studies, and Journal of Democracy. Highly cited works include "Presidential Conditional Agenda Setting in Latin America" (World Politics, 2005, with George Tsebelis) and "Comparing Cosponsorship and Roll-Call Ideal Points" (Legislative Studies Quarterly, 2009, with Ernesto Calvo, Mark P. Jones, and Noah Kaplan). Alemán has received the 2023 Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Houston Office of the Provost and the 2023 Ross M. Lence Teaching Excellence Award from the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. He has held editorial positions with the Journal of Legislative Studies, Estudios Internacionales, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Política, Revista de Ciencia Política.