Professor Gibson is Professor of Political Science and Director of the International Studies Program at UC San Diego. He studies the politics of development, democracy, and the environment. He has explored issues related to these topics in Africa, Central and South America, and the United States. The results of this work have appeared in journals such as Comparative Politics, World Development, Annual Review of Political Science, Social Science Quarterly, Human Ecology, Conservation Biology, Ecological Economics, and African Affairs. Professor Gibson's research about the politics of wildlife policy in Africa appears in his book, Politicians and Poachers: The Political Economy of Wildlife Policy in Africa (Cambridge 1999). He has also co-edited two volumes: People and Forests: Communities, Institutions, and Governance (MIT 2000; coeditors E. Ostrom and M. McKean) uses techniques from the natural and social sciences to examines the local governance of forests; Communities and the Environment: Ethnicity, Gender, and the State in Community-Based Conservation (Rutgers 2001; coeditor A. Agrawal) explores the complex and multilayered linkages between members and their natural resources. Professor Gibson’s latest book analyses the political economy of foreign aid and offers suggestions for its improvement (Samaritan’s Dilemma: The Political Economy of Development Aid, Oxford 2005; co-authors E. Ostrom, K. Andersson, and S. Shivakumar). His current research focuses on the accountability between governments and citizens in Africa.

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Phone: (858) 822-5140
E-mail: ccgibson@ucsd.edu

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