Congratulations to former Kellogg visiting fellow Javier Pérez Sandoval (Fall 2023), whose Kellogg research project has been published in Perspectives on Politics, through Cambridge University Press.
"Multilevel Regime Decoupling: The Territorial Dimension of Autocratization and Contemporary Regime Change" looks at conditions where democracy advances in one territorial level, but erodes in another. Using global data from the Varieties of Democracy project, Pérez Sandoval examines the 1990–2022 period, showing an increase in the proportion of these multilevel regime decoupling (MRD) cases and exploring their significance.
"Given that regimes across territorial levels increasingly move in separate directions, future assessments of autocratization and democratic change need to embed territorial considerations in their analysis to remain informative about citizens’ real-world experiences on the ground," he states in the article's abstract.
Currently, Pérez Sandoval is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Politics (DPIR) at the University of Oxford. His research centers on the political economy of regime change, subnational politics, and democratic institutional design. His work aims to strengthen the understanding of subnational regime variation, paying particular attention to Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, and other countries in the Global South.