Rate My Professor Eduardo Alemán

Professor Eduardo Alemán is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Houston, where he specializes in the comparative analysis of political institutions and Latin American politics. He earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2003, an M.A. in Political Science from UCLA in 2001, an M.A. in Latin American Studies from UCLA in 1997, and a B.S. in Business Administration from San Francisco State University in 1994. Alemán joined the University of Houston as Assistant Professor in 2004, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2010, and to full Professor in 2025. He teaches graduate seminars on comparative political analysis, comparative political institutions, and comparative parliaments, as well as undergraduate courses including comparative politics, introduction to Latin American politics, political institutions, and Latin American legislative politics.

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.