Dr. Umberto Mignozzetti

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Umberto Mignozzetti is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Computational Social Sciences Program within the Department of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He specializes in comparative politics and political economy, focusing on Latin America. His research aims to improve public goods provision in developing democracies and employs a combination of formal modeling, experiments, elite and popular surveys, alongside computational social science methods. Mignozzetti's scholarly work includes a number of contributions that enhance the understanding of the nexus between legislature size and welfare, the failures of bottom-up accountability, and the effects of elite capturing and preferences on climate change mitigation agreements. His research has been published or is forthcoming in several respected journals, including the American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Experimental Political Science, Research & Politics, and Global Environmental Politics.

Research Interests

Requirements for University of California, San Diego

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
TOEFL
Total
Required:85
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Duolingo
Overall Score
Required:120
Overall
Required:120
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree in physical, biological, or earth sciences, mathematics, or engineering. Differential and integral calculus. One year of calculus-based physics with laboratory. One year of chemistry with laboratory.
Application Checklist
  • Statement of Purpose (max 2 pages)
  • Unofficial transcripts
  • Three letters of recommendation
  • Curriculum Vitae (CV)
  • Application fee ($135 domestic / $155 international)
Specialization Notes

Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).