A former Kellogg-affiliated PhD student, Juan Moraes is professor of political science at Universidad de la República, Uruguay. His research focuses on parties and party systems, with a focus on the role of ideology in party competition and the causes and consequences of polarization in Latin America. Although his work privileges a broad comparative perspective, his research also focuses on the cases of Brazil and Uruguay.
As a Kellogg visiting fellow, Moraes will work on his project “Affective Polarization and Weak Partisan Institutions in Latin America.” This research explores the role of personalism as a cause of ‘affective polarization’ – a set of hostile attitudes towards opposing collective identities, which requires vibrant political parties – in Latin America, offering an account of such behavior in a context of electoral instability, which is a key element of party competition in the region.
Moraes’ publications have appeared in a number of books and journals, including Party Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, and Latin American Research Review, among others.
He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Notre Dame.
Summer 2012 : Research on Ideological Polarization in Latin America