New article with Daniel Encinas. “Cleavages without Parties: Populism and its Voters in Peru.” Even without stable parties, Peruvian voting is quite predictable. Competition has long been structured by a core–periphery cleavage and a populist narrative of “people vs. elite.” Link: t.co/P7AuVXzSTZ

My review of Schenoni's Bringing War Back In. “Bringing War Back In (BWBI) is a tour de force in state-building scholarship, a model of multi-methods research, and a love letter to Max Weber.” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Americans are skipping the most entertaining parts of populism and going straight to the economic crisis.

Charles Tilly: War makes the state, and the state makes war. Luis Schenoni: State makes war, and war makes (or breaks) the state.

🎉 It's official! Starting January 1 and for the next 5 years, I’ll be a Ramón y Cajal fellow at IE. Grateful to @cienciagob.bsky.social and my colleagues @ieuniversity.bsky.social for this opportunity to advance my research on governance, corruption, and civil servants www.aei.gob.es/noticias/age...

Latin Americanists looking at all the contradictory factions of a populist coalition that undermine existing institutions, while fighting each other, yet are loyal to the same charismatic leader who they believe can resolve all their problems and restore national glory, this time in the U.S..

Se ha estudiado cómo la baja capacidad estatal lleva a menor capacidad de representación. Con Estado incapaz es difícil representar preferencias de votantes. Pero el Perú actual muestra cómo la baja capacidad de representación puede llevar a menor capacidad estatal. 🧵

The Fall 2024 issue of QMMR is now live! 1. Eye-opening symposium with a debate on how to draw causal graphs 2. Reports from the Emerging Methodologists Wkshop 3. Great articles on archival research 4. Fascinating notes from the Field/Classroom Dig in! qmmrpublication.com/_files/ugd/7e0…

"Poorly planned/executed autogolpe". From now on, these should be called "a Pedro Castillo."

We're delighted to announce the release of our Cambridge Element: Parties and New Technologies in Latin America. By Rafael Piñeiro-Rodriguez, Fernando Rosenblatt, Gabriel Vommaro, and Laura Wills-Otero. It's free to download for the next four weeks! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

"Ese país se parecerá más a Perú que a Noruega, obviamente. Pero entre un país con 200% de inflación y Perú, ¿vos qué elegirías, compañero?" www.eldiplo.org/306-un-ano-d...

This was my last semester at UCU. In '25 I'm joining the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Universidad del Pacífico. I'll miss my wonderful colleagues and I'm also excited to start a new stage with excellent colleagues at UP. Thanks for everything, Uruguay. See you in Lima.

I’ve had many interesting conversations about the election & what the next Trump administration will bring. Is the US set to slide into authoritarianism? Will we wall ourselves off from the world? Is it a new dawn of American prosperity? Might Trump remake the whole political landscape? 🧵 1/N

Great episode! open.spotify.com/episode/4C5Z...