Alison Post

About

Alison Post was the Edward Teller National Fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Alison Post is the Travers Family Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Chair of Political Science and associate professor (and former codirector) of Global Metropolitan Studies at the University of California–Berkeley. Her research examines urban politics and policy and other political economy themes, including public service delivery, regulation, and business–government relations. She also collaborates with engineers, urban planners, and scholars of public health on research on infrastructure management and “smart city” technology adoption. She works principally in Latin America, and recently in India and the United States as well. Post is the author of Foreign and Domestic Investment in Argentina: The Politics of Privatized Infrastructure (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and articles in the Annual Review of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Governance, Perspectives on Politics, Politics & Society, Studies in Comparative International Development, World Development, and other outlets. She has been named a Clarence Stone Scholar (an early career award) by the Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association and has received UC Berkeley’s Carol D. Soc award for mentoring graduate students. Her doctoral dissertation won the 2009 William Anderson award from the American Political Science Association for the best dissertation in the general field of federalism, intergovernmental relations, or state or local politics. She is a former president of the Urban and Local Politics section of the American Political Science Association and current chair of the Steering Committee for the Red para el Estudio de la de Economía Política de América Latina (Repal).