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Alberto Vergara, Professor of the Academic Department of Social and Political Sciences at the Universidad del Pacífico and researcher at CIUP. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Montreal (Canada) with a doctoral scholarship from the Trudeau Foundation, a Master’s degree in Political Science from the Free University of Brussels (Belgium) and a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. He completed a post-doctorate at Harvard University (USA). He has taught courses on Latin American politics in the Departments of Political Science at the Universities of Montreal, Harvard and Sciences-po (Paris and Poitiers campuses). His research has focused essentially on Andean countries, looking at different dimensions of the political regime: citizenship, representation, technocracies, accountability, subnational powers, among others. His academic research has appeared in Latin American Research Review, Journal of Democracy, Journal of Politics in Latin America, among others. He is the author of the books La Danza Hostil: Poderes subnacionales y Estado Central en Bolivia y Perú, (1952-2012) and Ni amnésicos ni irracionales. The 2006 elections in historical perspective. He co-edited with Carlos Meléndez the book La Iniciación de la política. El Perú político en perspectiva comparada. His essays and political articles have been compiled in the book Ciudadanos sin República. |