Causal inference is all the rage. But good descriptive research is vital. This new article lays out an argument for what makes good descriptive research.

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.”

🚨New article with Rodrigo Barrenechea in the TJD: “Cleavages without Parties: Populism and its Voters in Peru.” 📣Open Access. Here is the link: tfd.org.tw/backend/upload…

New article with Silvia Otero Bahamon: “When Voters Leave: Demand-Driven Dealignment and Populism in Colombia.” Petro and Hernández shocked Colombian politics in 2022. How could two anti-establishment candidates make it to the runoff? In short: voters moved. Parties didn't.

👏🎉 Congratulations to Ezequiel Gonzalez-Ocantos - awarded the 2025 Alexander George Best Article Award from APSA’s Qualitative and Multi-Methods Research section for his article 'Aligning Interviewing with Process Tracing'!: ow.ly/zfIr50WCQ2J

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! #Criminal #Governance in #Latin #America: Prevalence and Correlates By Andres Uribe, Benjamin Lessing, Noah Schouela & Elayne Stecher doi.org/10.1017/S15375…

How many people live with criminal governance in the Americas? Based on nationally representative survey data, we offer a rough estimate (Spoiler: as many as 100 million). Criminal governance also seems to be systematically correlated with greater, not weaker, state presence.

Recientemente publicamos con Rodrigo Barrenechea el artículo "When Voters Leave: Demand-Driven Dealignment and Populism in Colombia". Va un resumen en español del artículo que pueden consultar aquí 👇 tfd.org.tw/backend/upload…

#Investigación 🚨 Los cheques del escándalo de José Luna Gálvez revelan cómo Telesup financió pagos ilícitos al Consejo Nacional de la Magistratura (CNM) 🔎 La investigación de Perú21 expone 28 cheques por casi 1.5 millones de soles entregados a Iván Noguera, Guido Aguila y

Just published! 🎉 My paper "Indigenous Community Recognition and Identity: Evidence from Peru" Comparative Political Studies. It shows how & why indigenous recognition impacts self-identification for those who experience it – and for later generations that don't. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…