Patricio Navia

Clinical Assistant Professor

Biography

Clinical (Full) Professor of Liberal Studies and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University. Navia is also a Professor of Political Science at Universidad Diego Portales in Chile. Ph.D. in Politics from New York University, an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in Political Sciences and Sociology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has been a visiting professor at Princeton University, New School University, Universidad de Salamanca, Universidad de Chile and NYU Buenos Aires, and a visiting fellow at the University of Miami. He has published scholarly articles and book chapters on democratization, electoral rules and democratic institutions in Latin America. As founding director of Observatorio Electoral at Universidad Diego Portales, he has co-edited Democracia Municipal (2012), El sismo electoral de 2009. Cambio y continuidad en las preferencias políticas de los chilenos (2010) and El genoma electoral chileno. Dibujando el mapa genético de las preferencias políticas en Chile (2009). His books Diccionario de la política chilena (with Alfredo Joignant and Francisco Javier Díaz), El díscolo. Conversaciones con Marco Enríquez-Ominami (2009), Que gane el más mejor: Mérito y Competencia en el Chile de hoy (with Eduardo Engel, 2006) and Las grandes alamedas: El Chile post Pinochet (2004) have been best sellers in Chile. He is a columnist in El Líbero in Chile, Buenos Aires Herald, and Infolatam.com. He has previously penned columns for La Tercera, Capital and Poder magazines in Chile, Perfil in Argentina.

Education

Ph.D. - New York University

M.A. - University of Chicago

B.A. - University of Illinois at Chicago

Teaching and Research Interests

Latin American Politics; Elections; Public Opinion; Legislative Politics; Political Economy

Selected Publications

Navia, Patricio & Rodrigo Osorio. “Make the economy scream? Economic, ideological and social determinants of support for Salvador Allende in Chile, 1970-1973” Journal of Latin American Studies, (forthcoming, 2017).

Navia, Patricio. “Malaise in Representation in Chile: An Eighteen-Year-Old Debate” in Alfredo Joignant, Mauricio Morales, and Claudio Fuentes (eds.) Malaise in Representation in Latin American Countries: Chile, Argentina, Uruguay. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 119-136, 2017.

Campos-Parra, Hernán & Patricio Navia. “Disciplina legislativa en la Cámara de Diputados de Chile, 2010-2014” Política y Gobierno, Vol 24.1 (I Semestre), pp. 81-123, 2017.

Alemán, Eduardo and Patricio Navia. “Presidential Power, Legislative Rules and Lawmaking in Chile” in Eduardo Alemán and George Tsebelis (eds.) Legislative Institutions and Lawmaking in Latin America. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 92-121, 2016.

Bo, Caterina & Patricio Navia. “Evolución de la presencia y éxito de las candidatas en elecciones en Chile, 1989-2009” Revista Española de Ciencia Política. Núm. 40. Marzo 2016, pp. 117-138. http://dx.doi.org/10.1234/recp.n40.2016.pp%25p

Navia, Patricio & Ignacio Soto Castro. “It’s not the economy, stupid. ¿Qué tanto explica el voto económico los resultados en elecciones presidenciales en Chile, 1999-2013?” Revista Política. Vol 53 No. 1, pp. 165-189, 2015. DOI: 10.5354/0716-1077.2015.38154

Navia, Patricio & Rodrigo Osorio “It’s the Christian Democrats’ Fault: Declining Political Identification in Chile, 1957-2012” Canadian Journal of Political Science, 48.4, pp (815-838), 2015. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0008423915001067.

Bunker, Kenneth & Patricio Navia “Incumbency Advantage and Tenure Length in the Chilean Chamber of Deputies, 1989-2009” Revista de Ciencia Política, 35.2, pp. 251-271, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-090X2015000200001.

Navia, Patricio & Rodrigo Osorio. “El Mercurio Lies and La Tercera Lies More. Political Bias in Newspaper Headlines in Chile, 1994-2010” Bulletin of Latin American Research, Vol. 34.4, pp. 467–485, 2015. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/blar.12364/pdf.

Navia, Patricio & José Luis Saldaña. “Mis-coordination and Political Misalignments in Ticket-Splitting: the Case of Chile, 2005–2009” Contemporary Politics 21:4, pp. 485-503, (2015) DOI: 10.1080/13569775.2015.1014174.