Aníbal Pérez-Liñán

Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, associate professor of political science and core faculty member at the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, will join Kellogg for the 2007 fall semester. His research interests include political institutions, democratization, and Latin America.

At Kellogg, Pérez-Liñán will work with former Kellogg director Scott Mainwaring to coauthor a book on democratization in Latin America from 1945 to 2004. They will address several classic questions in comparative politics and political sociology: What factors facilitate the establishment of democracy or promote its breakdown? Why does democratization often take place in regional ‘waves’? What conditions drive the erosion of democratic life?

Pérez-Liñán has published extensively. His most recent books include Presidential Impeachment and the New Political Instability in Latin America (Cambridge, forthcoming) and Latin American Democratization since 1978: Regime Transitions, Breakdowns, and Erosions (Fundacion Rafael Preciado Hernandez, forthcoming), coauthored with Mainwaring.

Pérez-Liñán holds a PhD from the University of Notre Dame.