Status
Visiting Lecturer
Contact
jkgirald@nps.edu
Research Interests
Counter-drug strategy and policy development; Civil-military relations; Political institutions |
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Biography
Jeanne Giraldo earned her Bachelor's degree in Politics from Princeton University and her Master's degree in Government from Harvard University, where she is currently completing her Ph.D. Before coming to the Naval Postgraduate School, she conducted extensive research on the transition to democracy in Chile, working there as an ITT Scholar in 1989-90 and returning as a Tinker scholar in 1992, 1996, and 1998. She has also worked as a consultant to the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, D.C. Her current research focuses on coalition politics in Chile, changes in political representation in Latin America (based in part on a survey administered to congressional representatives in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile), counterdrug efforts, and civil-military relations.
Professor Giraldo's publications include "Development and Democracy in Chile: Finance Minister Alejandro Foxley and the Concertación's Project for the 1990s" in Jorge I. Domínguez, ed., Technopols: Freeing Politics and Markets in Latin America in the 1990s; and "Parties, Institutions, and Market Reforms in Constructing Democracies" (with Jorge Domínguez) in Jorge I. Domínguez and Abraham F. Lowenthal, eds., Constructing Democratic Governance: Latin America and the Caribbean in the 1990s - Themes and Issues. Most recently, she has written a trilogy of papers on civil-military relations for the National Democratic Institute: Democratizing Civil-Military Relations: What Do Countries Legislate?, Legislative Control of the Military: The Comparative Experience, and Defense Budgets and Civilian Oversight. Professor Giraldo teaches courses on comparative politics, politics and security in Latin America, counterdrug strategy, and research design.
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