But territory is an expression of other variables. Building on
@dsulmont.bsky.social
’s work, we correlate provincial first-round vote with market integration (share of wage earners) and indigeneity (indigenous mother tongue). Both dimensions correlate strongly with the populist vote.
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The geography of the vote is clear: the highlands (esp. the southern Andes) tend to back populist options; Lima/the coast leans anti-populist/status quo. In some cases (Fujimori), the coalition broadened—but the highlands remain a core component.
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In Peru, there is a populist electorate constantly searching for a candidate. Electoral evidence shows Fujimori (1990), Humala (2006/2011), and Castillo (2021) share a peripheral base; all drew support from “Perú Profundo.” Leaders rotate; the territorial pattern persists.
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2. The literature on populism shows an archetypal “people” to whom populists appeal—and who respond to those appeals. In the U.S., that “people” is imagined as "The Heartland." In Peru, it’s “Perú Profundo.”
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We make two contributions.
1. The cleavages literature often assumes cleavages cannot exist unless a party crystallizes around them. We show voting behavior consistent with a cleavage even without stable parties.
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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
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Luis L. Schenoni, Bringing War Back In: Victory, Defeat, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Latin America. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Tables, figures, maps, bibliography, index, 307 ...
Luis L. Schenoni, Bringing War Back In: Victory, Defeat, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Latin America. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Tables, figures, maps, bibliography, index, 307 ...
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...
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Americans are skipping the most entertaining parts of populism and going straight to the economic crisis.
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Charles Tilly: War makes the state, and the state makes war.
Luis Schenoni: State makes war, and war makes (or breaks) the state.
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Congrats!!!
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a close up of a man 's face with david worren written on the bottom right
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with david worren written on the bottom right
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..
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Todo esto tiene efectos evidentes sobre la calidad de las políticas públicas y por lo tanto sobre el bienestar general. Por muchos años se pensó que la tecnocracia podía aislar al Estado de los efectos de una política precaria. Hoy queda claro eso ya no es posible.
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Ilustración:
Gobierno de García -un político experimentado proveniente de un partido tradicional- alcanzó su cuarto gabinete ministerial a los 1509 días de gobierno. Castillo lo tuvo en sólo 205. Boluarte ha tenido 38 cambios y 57 diferentes ministros en menos de dos años. +
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Tercero: Circulación del poder lleva a circulación de funcionarios
Políticos inexpertos se rodean de funcionarios sin competencias ni conexiones políticas. Debilidad los hace vulnerables a cambios constantes por incompetencias y para apaciguar oposición. Debilitan ministerios. +
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Ilustración: PetroPerú. La empresa tiene problemas crónicos de incapacidad, pero se profundizaron durante gob de Castillo. En octubre de 2024, más de un mes después de renuncia del directorio, gobierno reconoció que no lograba convocar profesionales para integrar uno nuevo +
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Segundo: autoselección perversa de funcionarios públicos
Gobiernos débiles e impopulares alejan a quienes tienen algún prestigio profesional que perder. Se acercan quienes ven en esto una oportunidad para alcanzar posiciones que, de otra manera, estarían fuera de su alcance. +
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Ilustración: reforma de la Super Intendencia Nacional de Educación Superior (SUNEDU). A iniciativa de bancadas vinculadas a universidades, Congreso reformó la SUNEDU, restándole parámetros meritocráticos a la conformación de su consejo directivo y autonomía frente a regulados. +
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Primero: De la fragmentación política al particularismo en el Estado.
Fragmentación extrema hace proclives a partidos a responder a grupos de interés particularísimos. Desaparece interés público como horizonte. Se pone Estado al servicio de particularismos, restando autonomía +
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¿Cómo afecta esto a la capacidad estatal? La experiencia peruana sugiere que hay al menos tres mecanismos que vinculan al debilitamiento de la representación democrática con un debilitamiento de la calidad del Estado y, por consiguiente, de las políticas públicas. +
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Perú es un caso de extremo debilitamiento de la representación democrática: fragmentación y constante rotación de partidos en el poder; proliferación de novatos políticos sin vínculos partidistas significativos y la desconexión entre política y sociedad
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/… +
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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. 🧵
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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…
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"Poorly planned/executed autogolpe". From now on, these should be called "a Pedro Castillo."
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Parties and New Technologies in Latin America
Cambridge Core - Latin American Studies - Parties and New Technologies in Latin America
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...
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¿La está domando? – El Dipló
"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...
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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.
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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
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Publishing original and substantial contributions to the study of comparative European politics. A journal from the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) https://ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14756765
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Assistant Professor, School of Government, UAI, Chile.
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Political Scientist @University of Zurich
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Professor of Political Science @ University of North Texas at Dallas. Writing about Latin America, civil-military relations, democracy, security, and public opinion.
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Political scientist at the U.S. Naval Academy, Minnesotan, Latin Americanist
Associate Professor of Political Science
Elections in Latin America: Campaigns, Voters, and Institutions: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/elections-in-latin-america-9781538189030/
Comparative civil-military relations, defense manufacturing, political violence, electoral politics, and foreign policy. Regional foci on South Asia and Latin America, but also the "global south."
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Professor of Middle East politics at Northwestern University. Author of "We Crossed A Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria" and "The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora." https://sites.northwestern.edu/wendypearlman/
Fellow, Global Policy at the George W. Bush Institute. Previously at the National Endowment for Democracy's International Forum for Democratic Studies. Advancing freedom and democracy globally while confronting authoritarian regimes.
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Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM"
International Relations and Foreign Policy. UChicago Prof. Chicago Council Fellow. WPReview Columnist. Still on Twitter/X, but now here too.
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